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WalkUp Foundation founder Ryan Petty, who lost his daughter in the Parkland, Florida, shooting, told California Gov. Gavin Newsom that more gun control would not have saved his daughter’s life. Petty was responding to Newsom’s claims that a new bill endorsed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on concealed carry of firearms would put Floridians in

click to enlarge So much of our world has been focused for the past three years on the COVID-19 pandemic and the pesky little spike-proteins that wreak havoc, skewering our essential organs and threatening the lives of both the young and the old. While it’s still killing a few here and there, the frightening virus,

The National Prayer Breakfast in February is one of the more annoying means by which American elites send their fellow citizens the none-too-subtle message that US society is – and will continue to be – dominated by Christians, and saturated with Christian privilege. Held in Washington, DC, since 1953, it’s been hyped as ‘non-partisan’, ‘non-sectarian’

Five mass shootings in California. Forty in the country overall. That’s just in the first weeks of 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, announced this month that she plans to step away from leadership at the organization she started in 2012, the day after the Sandy Hook

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Last week, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a handful of legislative proposals aimed at curbing gun violence in the state. Yash Roy 2:16 am, Feb 01, 2023 Staff Reporter Zoe Berg, Senior Photographer Five states currently ban the open-carrying of guns. Connecticut hopes to begin the sixth by the end of this year.  Banning open

Florida legislators have taken the first step toward allowing any adult Floridian without a criminal record to carry concealed weapons free of any need to take gun-safety classes or register with the state. They wouldn’t be allowed to openly pack handguns, as in the Wild West. Still, opponents warned that bills introduced Monday in the

Yesterday, in an NRA-ILA backed lawsuit, a federal court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that restricts New Jersey from enforcing several so called “sensitive place” bans. In December, after the same federal court struck New Jersey’s justifiable need requirement in another NRA-ILA backed lawsuit, the state passed A4769, which declares the entire state to

The NRA, which has shown signs of declining influence in recent years, reported lobbying on a range of topics in its fourth quarter disclosure, including on background checks and on firearm bans and sales.  Nominee defeated in 2021 “While others focus on inconsequential benchmarks, the NRA focuses on results for our members and gun owners,”

Military veterans from Texas and Wisconsin are suing the Biden administration over a new rule from the Biden Administration which recategorizes up to 40 million pistols with stabilizing braces as “short-barreled rifles.”  The rule, implemented by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), would reclassify many pistols used with stabilizing braces as short-barreled

A conservative law firm challenged new federal regulations on guns with stabilizing braces Tuesday, suing to block a gun-control action touted by President Joe Biden after the accessories were used in two mass shootings. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Texas, challenges the move to treat the guns like short-barreled rifles, a weapon like

The state of Illinois lost an appeal on Tuesday after a lower court judge issued a restraining order on a newly enacted ban on some semiautomatic rifles as well as high-capacity magazines. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the gun control law on Jan. 10, which bans the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high capacity

Florida’s highest court upheld the penalty provision in the state’s preemption statute, which holds local officials accountable by directly fining them for knowingly passing preempted ordinances.   Like many states, Florida sought to have a uniform system of firearms laws and passed a preemption statute. But in 2011, after many lawsuits were filed against localities challenging