By NSSF The SHOT Show wasn’t just a showcase for the firearms industry. State leaders are competing for firearms businesses, too. “It’s not just a matter of saying we believe in the Second Amendment. We live the outdoors.” said Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on a SHOT Show TV appearance with Georgia’s Bert Brantley Chief Operating […]
From the AP: The Virginia Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would allow authorities to take guns away from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others, as the state moves closer to joining a growing number of states enacting so-called “red flag” gun laws. The Democratic-led Senate voted for the bill despite fierce resistance from Republican […]
By CCRKBA Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should apologize to the thousands of gun owners who turned out Monday for their annual, and peaceful, Second Amendment rally, and to the thousands more his hysteria kept away, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. “Following a peaceful gathering of law-abiding gun […]
By Alan Suderman and Sarah Rankin, AP Tens of thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation — a move that has become a key flash point in the national debate over gun violence The size […]
By Alan Suderman and Sarah Rankin, AP Gun-rights activists — some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles — began to descend on Virginia’s capital city Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation. Several thousand activists — mostly white and male, many clothed in camouflage and waving flags with […]
By Dennis Petrocelli, MD An embattled Governor tried to revive his career with a slate of “gun control” bills that would do nothing to relieve the atrocities they claim to address. The Republican assembly dismissed these in Special Session after the Democrats refused to consider crime or mental health. Seeing an opportunity, Billionaire Bloomberg bought the mid-term election and the Democrats brought back all those bills, and more. […]
By Brian Connelly You hear the names Rock Island Armory and Armscor quite often, and while they are most known for being the largest manufacturer of 1911 handguns on the planet, they have recently started what I consider a massive product line expansion. Rock Island Armory has been shaking things up over the past few years, […]
By the Associated Press A Montana man told authorities that he cut off a grizzly bear’s claws as a memento after shooting it in self-defense because he was mad that the bear was going to eat him, according to court records. Bryan Berg, 35, appeared in court on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Missoula […]
By Denise Lavoie, AP Virginia’s highest court on Friday upheld a ban on firearms at a pro-gun rally in the state’s capital next week, an event that authorities feared could erupt in violence at the hands of armed extremists. Gov. Ralph Northam earlier this week declared a state of emergency and issued an executive order […]
[ED: Yesterday a Virginia Circuit Court judge denied the VCDL’s request for an injunction to block Governor Northam’s emergency gun ban executive order. The judge based her denial on the Heller decision’s ruling that gun rights are not unlimited and that prohibitions of firearms in “sensitive places such as schools or government buildings” is reasonable.] […]
UPDATE: Circuit Court Judge Joi Taylor has denied the VCDL’s request for an injunction to block Governor Northam’s emergency gun ban declaration. Judge Taylor based her denial on the Heller decision’s ruling that gun rights are not unlimited and that prohibitions of firearms in “sensitive places such as schools or government buildings” is reasonable. #BREAKING: […]
From the Associated Press A Kansas teen who said he didn’t know a gun was loaded when he fatally shot a 14-year-old friend has been acquitted of second-degree murder. Jurors returned the verdict Wednesday in the case against the Roeland Park teen, who was 13 years old in August when he shot and killed Zavier Mendoza in […]
