Rights advocates across the country are critical of new gun control proposals that they believe come from billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s “wish list.” (YouTube, PBS) Across the landscape this winter, lawmakers from Sarasota to San Francisco and Seattle are pressing for more gun control laws that opponents are uniformly labelling as extreme if not unconstitutional, and […]
Is Nation Really ‘Coming Around’ to New York-style Gun Control?
The executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence was quoted Monday morning by the Daily Gazette declaring, “I think the nation, particularly New York, is coming around to the idea that gun laws are needed.” But New Yorker Rebecca Fischer just might get an argument or two about that theory, especially from rights activists […]
S.D. Gov. Noem Inks ‘Constitutional Carry’ Bill
Anti-gunners in and outside of South Dakota cringed Thursday when recently-sworn Gov. Kristi Noem signed legislation that legalizes concealed carry without a permit, beginning July 1. The Mount Rushmore State becomes the 14th state to allow so-called “Constitutional Carry,” and not everyone is happy about it. According to KSFY News, a spokesperson for […]
WA Democrats Wage War on Concealed Carry
Democrat lawmakers in Washington state are pushing restrictions on concealed carry. (Dave Workman) Apparently feeling their oats, Democrats in the Washington Legislature are mounting a multi-pronged attack on the state’s long-standing concealed carry system, first by proposing a new training requirement, and more recently by introducing legislation that essentially repeals the waiting period waiver for […]
WA Lawmakers Could Learn from South Dakota, Florida
Washington State Democrats could learn a few things from their fellow legislators in South Dakota, and from a Florida panel created to investigate last year’s Parkland school shooting and provide recommendations on how to prevent or at least respond to future attacks. Lawmakers in South Dakota on Tuesday passed a bill that will allow residents […]
Insurrection in WA State: Lawmen ‘Just Say No’
As anti-gun lawmakers in Washington State’s capitol at Olympia consider even more restrictions on firearms owners, resistance from law enforcement professionals to last fall’s Initiative 1639 is being reported internationally by The Guardian. What Second Amendment advocates considered an “extremist” gun control measure when they opposed it, I-1639 — passed by slightly less than 60 […]
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