After recessing due to the COVID-19 crisis, the legislature is back at it pushing gun control. The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, June 25th at 10 a.m. to consider HB 1902 and HB 2744. The Capitol is closed to the public at this time so the committee will only be accepting written testimony. It’s
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An appellate court in Florida recently decided that a police officer who sees a firearm when approaching a citizen is not permitted to rely exclusively on the possession of the firearm as the justification for an investigatory stop and search. Bearing arms is not only a lawful activity, it is “a specifically enumerated right” protected
As we reported earlier, Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, announced an executive order on April 24 as part of his response to the COVID-19 civil emergency. The order prohibited the “carrying of an unconcealed loaded or unloaded pistol or revolver or any other firearm, carried upon the person or in a sheath, belt
Gun owners are by now used to being disappointed with the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to uphold their rights or even to defend its own Second Amendment precedents. But the court’s neglect reached a new low last Monday, with its sweeping decision to deny review of the many Second Amendment cases pending on its docket.
Democratic presidential hopeful and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is going after rival candidate and current front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on one of his signature issues: Gun control. On Monday, just ahead of Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in South Carolina, Bloomberg put out a 90-second video ad critiquing Sanders’ past legislative record
By Jack Calhoun I was back on the picket lines at the NRA headquarters on Aug. 14. Ever the pragmatist I have to confess to some slow-growing doubts about the utility of this monthly picketing — does it change anything, move the needle at all, this standing there with a sign when in the last
In scenes mirrored across the country, thousands mourned George Floyd and marched against racism and police brutality in Houston, where he was raised and buried. Among the demonstrators was the city’s police chief. Art Acevedo has attracted attention as an outspoken advocate for change after the killing of Floyd, a black man who was filmed
RALEIGH, N.C.. (Tribune News Service) — By beating numerous GOP establishment candidates on Super Tuesday, Mark Robinson became likely only the second black politician the North Carolina Republican Party has nominated to run for statewide office in modern history. Robinson, a gun rights activist from Greensboro, rode his fame from a 2018 viral video to
With Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s raft of new gun controls set to take effect on July 1st, Alexandria Mayor Justin M. Wilson and the City Council are wasting no time in attacking gun rights. HB421/SB35, signed by Northam on April 22nd, weakened the state firearms preemption statute to allow localities to prohibit the possession, carrying,
19 Kids and Counting’s Jed Duggar, 20, launches run for Arkansas House of Representatives with pro-life, pro-gun, and pro-religious liberty campaign Jed announced his run on Instagram on Sunday His website lists him in favor of ‘conservative values,’ and he also promised to lower taxes, create jobs, and combat the opioid crisis with faith-based programs
All leaders are demagogues. You may not realize this, because we’ve come to associate the word “demagogue” with only dangerous populist leaders. But in Greek, the word just means “leader of the people” (dēmos “the people” + agōgos “leading”). Some demagogues are good, and some are dangerous. The fundamental difference between leaders who are good
in Tulsa, the state is able to claim the intersection of two of the largest highway systems in the US, three of the five largest tornadoes in world history, and the largest population of forcibly relocated Native Americans in the United States. Oklahoma is also able to claim the national ranking of 45 out of
John Michael O’Keefe Jr., 69, of Lincroft, passed away unexpectedly June 5. Born in Jersey City, Jack moved to Keansburg at the age of eight and graduated from Middletown High School in 1968. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy and served two tours aboard the USS Benewah and USS Enterprise during the Vietnam War.
Donald Trump has chewed and spat out aides left and right but he hasn’t faced one quite like John Bolton, a wily Washington veteran with his own sense of grievance. While other former advisors have kept respectful silences or narrowly tailored their critiques, Bolton has written a blistering memoir challenging Trump’s intelligence, ethics and basic
Panel drops senator’s stock-trade case ATLANTA — The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee dismissed complaints Tuesday from watchdog groups questioning whether U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., engaged in “potential insider trading” after reviewing recent stock trades made on her behalf. The committee “did not find evidence that your actions violated federal law, Senate rules, or standards
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Along with the sweeping success of the Right-to-Carry movement, strong state firearms preemption laws have been among the most important developments over the past half-century in the way average Americans own and use firearms. To open a circa 1970 edition of ATF’s State Laws and Published Ordinances is to encounter an incomprehensible patchwork of county and
Updated 2:46 pm CDT, Tuesday, June 16, 2020 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana municipalities will be barred from enacting most gun restrictions beyond those in state law, under legislation signed by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The measure by House Republican leader Blake Miguez won passage from lawmakers in the regular session that ended June 1.