White House Repeal NFA Petition Needs 100k More Signatures
As of writing, the Repeal the NFA petition at petitions.whitehouse.gov needs 97,711 signatures by February 19, 2017 to get a response from the White House. Here's the text:
We the People wish to see the National Firearms Act...
New Hampshire Next for Constitutional Carry?
New Hampshire's requirement for a carry permit was passed about a hundred years ago as "progressive" ideas swept the nation. Those laws are being repealed, as evidence accumulates that they did more harm than...
Sen. Anitere Flores Opposes SB140, Florida Open Carry is Dead. Again
Our correspondent on the ground in Florida writes:
Florida Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Greg Steube needs all five Republican votes for Senate Bill 140, which would legalize open carry, to move it forward for a...
Update: Florida Open Carry On Life Support
Earlier today we ran a post from a reader regarding the legislative bottleneck holding up Florida Senate Bill 140 which would legalize open carry in the Sunshine state. That reader has since gotten some...
BREAKING: Florida Open Carry Dead?
A TTAG reader who wishes to remain anonymous writes:
I just got off the phone with Senator Greg Steube's office. Tomorrow is the Judiciary Committee meeting. The open carry bill, SB 140, is not on the...
Tallahassee Mayor Gillum Claims Power to Ignore State Firearms Preemption Law
People exercising their right to keep and bear arms shouldn't have to worry about whether or not they're violating an obscure local ordinance when they cross a local boundary. That's one reason every state has some form...
Sad Trump ‘Resistance’ Led by a Disarmed Population
The reason the Second Amendment exists, in the words of 19th century jurist and scholar Joseph Story, is to prevent "unprincipled and ambitious rulers subvert the government or trampl on the rights of...
Appeals Court Strikes Down Chicago Ban on Gun Ranges
Zoning laws are a peculiarly American way of legally barring people we don't like from doing things we find aesthetically unappealing with their own property. Occasionally, though, one of these laws runs up against...
Moms Demand Action Find a Fudd in Texas
Alert the media. The Moms who Demand Action on the street corners of Everytown USA have found themselves a Fudd in Texas. Manson "Bernie" Phillip wrote his legislator urging opposition to a pair of...
Attack on Mexican Music Festival; 5 Killed, 15 Injured
UPDATE ON 1/17: Family members confirmed in a statement to Fox 31 News that an American, 18-year-old Alejandra Villanueva of Denver, Colorado, was one of the festival attendees killed in the attack.
A gunfight broke...
Nat’l Reciprocity Bill Applies to Non Resident Permits
Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC), the primary sponsor of the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act that was introduced last week into the House, has clarified that the Act should apply to state firearms licenses issued...
National Reciprocity…Why Not?
Jeff Knox of FirearmsCoalition.org writes
If the hype of the anti-rights crowd and their friends in the media is true, all Americans are on the verge of being gunned down in the streets if a...