Gun Rights

Dear Second Amendment Supporters: Last night, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced House Bill 129, the 7-day waiting period bill, after rejecting an amendment to stretch the waiting period back to 14 days and adding an amendment to exempt concealed handgun licensees from the purchase delay. HB 129 now moves to the full Senate for debate

Hawaii’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Second Amendment rights as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court do not extend to Hawaii citizens, citing the “spirit of Aloha.” In the ruling, which was penned by Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, the court determined that states “retain the authority to require” individuals to hold proper permits

Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. To foreigners looking in, it is unusual enough that America elects most of its top prosecutors. More shocking is the amount of money going into political campaigns. Now the two have come together in a

Gunfire from drive-by shootings rang out 302 times in Albuquerque last year. Four bullets tore through a mobile home’s thin bedroom walls, just feet away from two teenage boys. One bullet narrowly missed a state senator’s daughter. Yet another killed a 5-year-old girl in her sleep — and prompted the governor’s controversial move to limit

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. FBI agents disrupted a plot by three men — two of whom said they were part of a militia — to travel to the Texas-Mexico border to kill Border Patrol agents and immigrants

Editor’s Note: This is a guest commentary. The opinions do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board. There are many reasons for Americans of every political stripe to fear a second Donald Trump presidency. His first term was a disaster, notable for its miasma of xenophobia, propaganda about the deep state, threats against

On Thursday, February 7th, Senate Bill 1291 was introduced in the state legislature. The NRA supported a previous version of this bill, HB 189, in 2023, and is supporting this bill as it advances through the legislature.  SB 1291 prohibits public contracts with individuals or companies that are boycotting certain industries, including those that engage in

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dozens of pieces of gun-related legislation that advocates say will bolster public safety are winding their way through Virginia’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly, including a measure that would halt the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms. The question hanging over all the bills is: Just how many will Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin veto?

Beware, even if you are doing the right thing.  This is a common refrain for New Jersey gun owners who are accustomed to bad gun laws that ensnare law-abiding citizens far too often.  Despite our warnings, more is on tap.  On Thursday February 8, the Senate Law & Public Safety Committee is picking up where

Show Caption Hide Caption Nikki Haley loses Nevada primary to a ‘none’ option Presidential candidate Nikki Haley lost to a “none” option after former President Donald Trump decided to skip the Nevada Republican primary. WASHINGTON – Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was the only prominent Republican presidential candidate running in Tuesday’s Nevada primary –

The two Republican candidates running for the Texas House District 53 seat are both attending the same political event in Llano County for the first time on Feb. 8. Hatch Smith and Wes Virdell will visit with voters at an informal meet-and-greet at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Kingsland Branch Library, 125 W. Polk St.

Opinion by Jennifer Tucker (CNN) — Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of a teenager who shot and killed four students and injured seven others at an Oxford, Michigan school in 2021, was found guilty Tuesday of all four counts of involuntary manslaughter. For this novel legal case, the jury of 12 deliberated for over 10 hours. Her

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The battle for the future of the Republican party is on display in southern Illinois this year, as the state’s most conservative district faces a congressional primary between two men endorsed two years ago by former President Donald Trump. Darren Bailey, who ran for governor against JB Pritzker in 2022, is challenging incumbent Mike Bost,

“I see it as an extension of the fight to save our country and our democracy from extremism,” Emma Brown told me over the phone recently. She had just taken over as executive director of Giffords, the key gun-reform organization founded by former representative Gabby Giffords a little more than a decade ago, and we

Last week, the Virginia House of Delegates passed House Bill 2, legislation that bans certain semi-automatic firearms, places arbitrary restrictions on magazine capacity and discriminates against young adults by limiting their ability to purchase certain firearms. Please contact your Senator and urge them to OPPOSE HB 2 by clicking the button below! Firearms banned under

Also, Keep Contacting Your House Members in Opposition to Extreme Gun Control Measures Awaiting Floor Debate!  Dear Second Amendment Supporters: There is a lot to unpack here with just over a week left in the 30-day legislative session.  You have done a tremendous job so far contacting your state lawmakers in opposition to these draconian

Two evolving groups of the electorate–women and young voters–are set to make waves in the 2024 presidential election. Both of these groups have had an emerging impact on politics, and pollsters and pundits have a lot to say about how these groups will leave their mark on 2024. As the voting day nears and the