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Arizona: Constitutional Carry takes effect
Starting today, Arizona residents at least 21 years old can carry a concealed weapon without a permit.
The change is part of a broad weapons law by state Sen. Russell Pearce passed by the state Legislature in April that eases restrictions on concealed carry.
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House passes bill to keep creditors from taking guns
The House this afternoon passed a bill that would change the law to allow someone going through bankruptcy proceedings to retain their rifles, shotguns, and pistols so long as they are worth less than $3,000 combined.
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One month after McDonald
One month ago, the Supreme Court held in McDonald v. City of Chicago that states, not just the federal government, are prevented from violating Americans' Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The Supreme Court did not, however, define the full scope of the right, nor the standard of review by which challenged statutes will be judged.
In other words: It ain't over yet. A number of pending lawsuits across the country will further shape how the Second Amendment will be applied.
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Kagan's Snowe job on gun rights
The more it looks like the Senate will confirm Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, the more gun owners should worry. Yesterday, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to stand behind President Obama's nominee on the phony basis that Ms. Kagan supports gun rights.
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Indians debate the right to bear arms
In January, a small group of enthusiasts met in Delhi to found The National Association of Gun Rights India (Nagri) to lobby lawmakers and to fund legal cases that make it easier to own and carry arms in India.
This month the organisation began a membership drive -- and in doing so, they have provoked a debate about the role of fire arms in the land of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Dominican Republic: Gun importers say ban spurs smuggling
The smuggling of weapons of all calibers has risen as the result of their import ban and also prompts citizens to buy guns illegally to protect against the latest nationwide crime spree.
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NRA-Backed "Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2010" Passes U.S. House
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Arizona: New gun law forces park signs to come down
The city of Tucson is getting ready for Arizona's new concealed weapons law by removing some signs, from city parks.
The signs being taken down say, "Carry a firearm in this park is limited to persons who possess a permit." But the city said the new law just makes them obsolete because people will no longer be required to have a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
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California: Tehama sheriff challenges state's ammunition law
Tehama County Sheriff Clay Parker didn't know that he would be named as the lead plaintiff on a suit challenging a new law that would require handgun ammunition buyers to register with the government.
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New Zealand: Dealers doubt gun law
Tougher laws targeting the sale of high powered air rifles will not stop criminals getting their hands on the weapons, say Taranaki gun dealers.
Police Minister Judith Collins announced this month that the Government planned to change the Arms Order to require anyone who bought or owned a pre charged pneumatic (PCP) air rifle to hold a firearms licence.
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Chicago gun lawsuit plaintiffs apply for permits
Two years after filing a lawsuit that ultimately forced the city to dismantle its 28 year old handgun ban, Otis McDonald walked into a police station Monday and applied for a permit allowing him to keep a gun at home.
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Massachusetts Governor blames gun lobby for slowing gun rationing bill
Gov. Deval Patrick says his gun control bill has been hurt by gun lobbyists and may not even get debated.
Patrick told reporters Monday that he believes members of the House are "feeling the pressure from the gun lobby" to oppose a bill that would restrict licensed gun owners to purchasing one firearm a month.
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The right to regain the right to own a gun
Gun rights organizations point to news stories about otherwise decent people who, through a terrible but brief lapse in judgment, have been arrested for domestic violence. The 73 year old woman busted for allegedly slapping her granddaughter for swearing is a popular reference.
Presumably her picture wasn't in legislators' crosshairs when they established the lifetime gun ban.
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Kansas: Raymore gun issue will be on Nov. 2 ballot
Raymore's politicians have argued since last winter about whether City Council members should be allowed to carry concealed weapons at meetings.
On Nov. 2, the people will get their say.
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Australia: New calls for gun control
A spate of shootings over the past 24 hours in NSW has lead to calls for both federal leaders to back national uniform gun laws.
NSW Greens Senate candidate Lee Rhiannon on Tuesday said it was time for tighter gun control laws, with a ban on semi automatic pistols, following four separate shooting incidents.
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UN threatens Second and First Amendments
The United Nations is holding secret closed meetings to work out a global arms trade treaty. The agreement, which could be finished by 2012, is a threat to Americans' Second and First Amendment rights.
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Arizona: Constitutional Carry starts Thursday
In less than a week, Arizona residents will be allowed to carry a gun in their pocket or purse without needing paperwork to do so.
Senate Bill 1108, which allows people to carry concealed guns with no permit takes effect on July 29.
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Lott: Gun control advocates make up facts about Right-to-Carry laws
People walking the streets armed with guns must be dangerous, right? The Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center keep claiming that even those individuals who have legally obtained permits to carry concealed handguns are extremely dangerous. With millions of Americans already having been issued such permits from the various states, this is an important issue.
The gun control organizations have frequently made these claims in the press. The Associated Press articles by Erik Schelzig and by Jim Abrams have given extensive, uncritical coverage. Members of the gun control organizations have made these claims unchallenged on such places as Fox News and on the Huffington Post. But the gun control advocates inaccurately describe many shooting cases, choosing to ignore that the majority of incidents involve people properly defending themselves.
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If armed, the good guys can win
Thomasson is unhappy with the Supreme Court because of Justice Alito's opinion in the recent McDonald case, in which the court ruled that the Chicago law forbidding handguns in the home was unconstitutional.
Thomasson claims that the National Rifle Association "disdains to bring sanity into the gun debate." Really? I retired from the legal office of the NRA and do not recall ever being instructed to omit sanity from a legal argument.
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NRA takes message to academia with NRA University initiative
The National Rifle Association is in the process of educating the next generation of gun rights advocates, taking their message directly into the belly of academia with their campus initiative, NRA University, or NRA U for short.
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Massachusetts: "Open Season" Video doesn't speak for all gun owners
There's a video on YouTube by Citizens for Safety featuring James Mathes and a young woman attempting to dupe the public into believing they are speaking on behalf of all hunters and gun owners.
Mathes says he's the hunter and gun owner and the woman says she's a gun owner and that they are in support of the Governor's foolish one gun a month bill (H.4102). The video is so full of bull dust, you have to put a clothespin on your nose when you watch it. Don't be fooled by these imposters.
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New Zealand: Planned air rifle law under fire
The Sporting Shooters' Association is frustrated laws around high powered rifles are to become tougher, saying it will do nothing to curb violent crime.
Police Minister Judith Collins announced today she plans to seek cabinet approval for a new law so that would mean people must have a firearms licence to own or possess a high powered air rifle.
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Coyotes in the State of Nature
To use lethal force in self defense is the ultimate declaration of independence, a kind of momentary secession from the authority of the government whose laws and prisons and police officers have, in that moment, failed the citizen. To acknowledge the right to self defense -- and the concomitant right to be forearmed against aggressors -- is to acknowledge that some things are outside the state and its authority, or at least that some moments are outside the state and its authority.
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Why Montanans want Utah's concealed firearm permit
Noah Dressel, the gun counter manager at Missoula's Wholesale Sports, has a permit issued by the state of Montana to carry a concealed firearm. But the permit isn't valid in Washington, a state he often travels through, nor is it valid in Minnesota, where his parents live. So Dressel obtained a Utah concealed firearm permit. It gives Dressel the freedom to carry a concealed weapon in the 32 other states that recognize or have formal reciprocity with Utah's gun laws -- including Washington, Minnesota and Montana.
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England: MPs announce firearms investigation
Laws on gun control are to be investigated by the Home Affairs Select Committee following recent high profile fatal shootings.
The committee will examine the extent to which legally held guns are used in crime and whether licensing rules are adequate.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the UK already has among the toughest gun control measures in the world and in light of the shootings in Cumbria warned against a "knee jerk reaction".
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National Rifle Association's Youth Education Summit continues building tomorrow's leaders
The National Rifle Association hosted 45 outstanding high school students July 12 18 at its annual Youth Education Summit, which encourages young adults to become active and knowledgeable citizens by learning about the Constitution and the federal government.
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California: Would open carry ban effect concealed carry?
Could a bill banning the open carrying of firearms actually result in more guns on California streets?
That's what some gun rights advocates are saying about AB 1934 by Assemblywoman Lori Saldana, D San Diego. They claim that the difficulty in getting concealed weapons permits in many California counties is so great that a ban on openly carrying guns would essentially infringe on the right to bear arms.
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New Jersey approves hunt to thin black bear population
New Jersey will hold its first bear hunt in five years this December to thin a growing black bear population that wildlife biologists say is increasingly coming into contact with suburban New Yorkers.
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German group denounces weapons law as unconstitutional
A school shooting spree last year in Winnenden in which a teenager killed 15 people has prompted a German anti weapons group to lodge a complaint with the country's constitutional court.
The initiative "No murder weapons as sports weapons" has lodged a constitutional complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. Germany's weapons law, the group says, is unconstitutional and does not provide enough protection from killing sprees.
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An armed congregation keeps the peace against those who would harm
As you may know the Baptist Tabernacle in Thomaston is seeking an injunction against a provision in Georgia law that forbids its members from carrying guns to church.
The question asked by our critics is, "Why would any one want to have a gun at church?"
Folks are genuinely astonished that a pastor and his congregation would want to exercise such a right. Let me list several reasons why this is so.
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