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Gun control legislation that would ban the sale of high capacity ammunition magazines is headed to the full House for consideration following a 3 2 House committee vote Wednesday.

House Speaker Paul Thissen decided Wednesday that the Minnesota House won't vote on any gun control bills this year, a major priority for many Democrats coming into the legislative session but one that got stymied by divisions in the party over access to guns.

The sweeping gun control measure signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and hailed by Democratic leaders has a surprising critic: Hollywood.Officials in the movie and television industry say the new laws could prevent them from using the lifelike assault weapons and high capacity magazines that they have employed in shows like "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and films like "The Dark Knight Rises."

You can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as "discredited." Ask Sen. Ted Cruz. But no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John Lott, author of the groundbreaking book "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws."Lott's economic analysis of the effect of concealed carry laws on violent crime is the most thoroughly vetted study in the history of economics, perhaps in the history of the world.

The last two pro-gun bills from the 2013 legislative session were sent last week to Governor Steve Bullock (D) for his consideration, and still await his action.  Please contact the Governor and respectfully urge him to sign into law these two important bills for gun owners and sportsmen in Montana.

As NRA members begin to gather in Houston for the 2013 Annual Meeting, action is heating up in Austin on Second Amendment-related measures.

On Monday, Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed two NRA-supported reforms into law.  These new laws, effective ninety days after the Arizona Legislature's adjournment, will protect the privacy of gun owners and prohibit government-sponsored destruction of seized or surrendered firearms.

When it comes to tracking crime guns, California is immune to scientific infection.Knowledge should precede policy. Yet California gun policy is often made in engineered ignorance. Despite pleas from law enforcement and assistance from the National Rifle Association, California's most basic crime gun research processes wouldn't receive a passing grade for a Research Methodologies 101 class.

The Missouri House has passed a bill that would allow county sheriffs to issue concealed weapons permits instead of the Revenue Department.Missouri sheriffs already have the responsibility of receiving concealed carry applications, reviewing applicants' backgrounds and issuing paper permits. But under current law, recipients take the paper permits to a local licensing office overseen by the Department of Revenue to receive a photo ID card noting their concealed carry status.

Texas senators on Tuesday advanced modest changes to state gun laws, trading incremental progress across the political aisle as they approved new penalties for those who seek to buy guns for criminals and voted in favor of allowing college students to keep guns in their cars on campus.

Gun owners are planning to rally at the Rhode Island Statehouse as lawmakers review gun control measures including a proposed ban on semi automatic assault weapons.

Family members of four Newtown shooting victims are coming to Trenton today in an attempt to break an impasse between the Senate and Assembly over a bill that would toughen the limit on ammunition magazines, gun control advocates said Monday.

Magpul Industries, the Erie based ammunition magazine maker that pledged to leave Colorado after gun control legislation was signed into law in March, is for the first time manufacturing its weapons accessories out of the state.

House Bill 58 will be heard in the House Administration Committee tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in the House Chamber of Legislative Hall in Dover. If passed by this committee, HB 58 could be voted on by the entire House as early as this Thursday.  Sponsored by state Representative John Mitchell Jr. (D-13), HB 58 would prohibit the manufacture, sale, purchase, transfer or delivery of magazines with the capacity to accept more than ten rounds of ammunition. 

An anti-gun bill that will criminalize the private transfer of handguns and certain semi-automatic rifles at gun shows will likely be heard this week or next in the House Rules Committee.  House File 285, introduced by state Representative John Lesch (DFL-66B), passed in the House Public Safety, Finance and Policy Committee by a 10 to 8 vote on April 8 after being amended to include a ban on private sales.  If HF 285 passes in the House Rules Committee, it will be eligible for final consideration on the House floor as early as this week.

This Thursday, May 2, the Alabama House of Representatives is scheduled to consider Senate Bill 286.  SB 286 recently passed in the House Commerce and Small Business Committee by a 6 to 2 vote.    State Representative Ed Henry (R-9) offered a substitute for Senate Bill 286 in committee, and this will be the version of this bill that will considered on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives this Thursday.

Alfred and Sylvia Armen were tending to their music store, Armen’s House of Music, in Bethel Park, Pa. when a man, who had just been inside the store, returned with a club. The criminal struck 71-year-old Sylvia in the head, prompting a physical altercation between 73-year-old Alfred and the attacker. During the struggle, Alfred was able to retrieve a .38-caliber revolver and shoot the criminal, killing him. Sylvia and Alfred suffered minor injuries during the incident, but Sylvia assured local media that she is “a tough cookie.”

As gun owners across the South prepare to gather in Houston for the 142nd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits next weekend, I want to thank the 5 million members of the NRA for all they do to make America safe and free.If you're an NRA member, you deserve to be proud.Because today, yet again, it's NRA members and the millions who agree with us - not the press or some in the political ranks - who are doing the thankless and heroic work of standing up for freedom. And it's NRA members who are demanding proven solutions - instead of empty soundbites and slogans - that will make Americans safer.

Bill Clinton, burned badly in 1994 on the issue of gun control, warned President Obama earlier this year that he was setting himself up for a fall. But Obama did not listen. "A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things," Clinton counseled Democratic donors in January. "I know because I come from this world." The current president most definitely does not.

In 1863 President Lincoln signed a congressional charter creating the National Academy of Sciences. Now, 150 years later, President Obama is enlisting NAS to implement an item in his January 16 plan to change the lives of America's 100 million gun owners. He has directed the Centers for Disease Control to resume research on gun injuries and deaths, and the NAS's Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a public workshop last week specifically tasked with shaping the direction of the CDC's firearm research.Government funded gun research was openly biased in the 1990s. CDC officials unabashedly supported gun bans, used CDC funds to advocate strict gun control, and poured millions of taxpayer dollars into funding "research" that was in fact advocacy -- thinly disguised medical journal hit pieces against gun ownership. Congress investigated and in 1997 forbade the use of CDC funds "to advocate or promote gun control."