Gun Rights

Last night, the Tennessee General Assembly adjourned sine die from its 2023-2024 legislative session with all anti-gun bills being defeated. Additionally, the General Assembly passed SB 2223/HB 2762, which prohibits the use of firearm/ammunition specific merchant category codes by payment processors. This is an important protection for gun owners, protecting private purchasing information from abuse by third parties. Governor

On Friday, April 26th the California Department of Justice announced proposed rulemaking on the firearm dealer video surveillance requirements, that went into effect on January 1, 2024 as a result of Senate Bill 1384 (2022). Despite the law having been in effect for nearly five months, California firearm dealers have been without proper guidance and at

Firearms can no longer be exported to countries the U.S. government considers “high-risk” under a new rule released by the U.S. Department of Commerce Friday. The move is designed to stop U.S. firearms and ammunition from being diverted or misused to facilitate drug trafficking, human rights violations and political violence, the department said. What You

Friday, April 26th marks the deadline for when all bills must advance from their first chamber policy committee if a fiscal committee referral is required.  Bills that have not passed out of their policy committee by this deadline will be considered dead for the 2024 legislative session.  The following bills have received a committee vote and are

On Monday April 29th, Representatives in the Minnesota House will be casting floor votes on House File 601, House File 4300, and House File 2609. The bills penalize gun owners for failing to report lost or stolen firearms, impose a one-size fits all firearm storage requirement, and ban certain firearm triggers. Please use the Take Action button below to

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Gateway Expressway opens A long-awaited highway project in Pinellas County is on track to finally open this afternoon. WMNF’s Chris Young reports. that’s when drivers will be able to ride on the Gateway Expressway. Insurance problems addressed Florida homeowners face challenges with their insurance, leading to the highest property insurance premiums in the country. WMNF’s

It appears that Jacksonville’s U.S. Rep. John Rutherford will face a Primary challenge. And if he should prevail, he will face a Democrat and a write-in in November. Democrat Jay McGovern qualified Friday, he tells Florida Politics from Tallahassee. At this writing, the Division of Elections is processing his qualification paperwork. McGovern has run for office before.

Melvin Howard, a retired New Orleans Police Department veteran who is now a deputy chief in the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, doesn’t see much good for downtown New Orleans in a new law allowing people 18 or older to carry concealed guns without a permit. “Giving an 18-year-old permission to carry a gun or to

By James Wilson Editor’s note:  See our overview of JFK’s positions at the end of this article.  Justin Mitson, a Democrat candidate for the Idaho State Senate’s District 16, calls himself a JFK Democrat. Mitson says, “John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a classic Democrat, totally opposed to what we call cancel culture today, and utterly in

“As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’” “Nine years ago, Glenn Olson joined a panel whose members, in ordinary circumstances, would rarely appear in the same room together — let alone work as a collaborative team. Olson, chair of bird conservation and public policy at the National Audubon Society, sat

Yesterday, The Delaware House Judiciary Committee released HB 311, to restrict firearms on college campuses. This legislation adds colleges and universities to the Safe School Zone criminal offense so that any person who knowingly possesses a firearm while in or on a college or university campus may be charged with an additional offense. A person

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – In the Senate chamber of the South Dakota Legislature, a little institutional knowledge goes a long way. Extreme measures emanating from the House of Representatives are often killed in Senate committees or amended on the floor, establishing an “adult in the room” element of political perspective in Pierre. The question, of

As the mayor of a city devastated by the unchecked greed of the firearm industry, I filed the first-of-its-kind lawsuit against irresponsible gun companies and their powerful lobbyists in 1998. At the time, I said the gun industry’s “day of atonement” had arrived. Six months later, the massacre of a dozen students and a teacher

Marion Hammer By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org No one seems to agree on the actual origin of the idiom, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” But it’s nonetheless useful to describe what just happened to longtime National Rifle Association Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer. On Monday, Hammer, who turns 85 Friday, fired off an email

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Yesterday, Governor Bill Lee signed SB 2223/HB 2762, legislation that provides important financial privacy protections for gun owners when purchasing firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition. NRA would like to thank Governor Lee for signing this critical piece of legislation. NRA also thanks House Speaker Cameron Sexton, Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally, Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-SD 27), who sponsored

On Monday, April 22nd, House Bill 1018 was signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp. HB 1018 prohibits the use of firearm/ammunition specific merchant category codes by payment processors. This is an important protection for gun owners, protecting private purchasing information from abuse by third parties. The NRA would like to thank Governor Kemp, House Speaker Jon Burns, Lieutenant Governor Burt