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Virginia Gov. Northam Wants to Ban Your Guns AND Make You Pay for It!
Virginia Gov. Northam Wants to Ban Your Guns AND Make You Pay for It! As if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s wholesale attack on law-abiding gun owners wasn’t enough, the disgraced public official and his Michael Bloomberg-bought allies in the General Assembly now want the state’s hard-working taxpayers to foot the bill for their unconstitutional schemes. The budget bill (HB30) includes an appropriation of a […]
Pennsylvania AG Targets Partially-Manufactured Receivers, Gun Owners
Pennsylvania AG Targets Partially-Manufactured Receivers, Gun Owners On December 16, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued a convoluted interpretation of state gun law that will have broad implications for Keystone State gun owners. The attorney general’s letter expanded the state’s statutory definition of “firearm” to include almost any material that has the potential to be fashioned into […]
Puerto Rico Enacts Pro-gun Overhaul of Firearms Laws
Puerto Rico Enacts Pro-gun Overhaul of Firearms Laws The 3.5 million residents of the Unites States’ largest territory will soon be able to better exercise their Second Amendment rights. On December 11, Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez Garced signed the Puerto Rico Weapons Act of 2020. The legislation overhauled the territory’s gun laws in a manner that […]
Florida Alert! Ballot Petition Fraudulent Activities Being Investigated
Florida Alert! Ballot Petition Fraudulent Activities Being Investigated Both in-state and out-of-state anti-gun millionaires and billionaires are engaged in trying to take control of our Constitution by putting constitutional amendments on the ballot that the public doesn’t understand and falsely believe are good. View full story Originally posted at http://www.nraila.org/
Pennsylvania: Attorney General Issues Opinion on Partially-Finished Receivers in Extreme Deviation from Federal Law
Pennsylvania: Attorney General Issues Opinion on Partially-Finished Receivers in Extreme Deviation from Federal Law Today, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued a tortured opinion defining partially-manufactured receivers as firearms. This opinion flies in stark contrast to the current, and widely held, understanding that receivers manufactured to be 80% or less complete are not considered firearms and therefore […]
Texas Gun Control Advocates Deride Actual Firearms Safety Efforts
Texas Gun Control Advocates Deride Actual Firearms Safety Efforts Gun control advocates are not concerned with gun safety. This reality was brought home once again by the anti-gun reaction to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and the firearm industry’s work to ensure Texans have free access to gun locks. View full story Originally posted at […]
First Amendment Defends the Second
First Amendment Defends the Second On April 24, 2019, shortly after the City of Los Angeles adopted an ordinance that was clearly designed to weaken support for the Second Amendment, NRA filed a lawsuit, calling the city’s outrageous action a violation of the First Amendment. Last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson issued a preliminary injunction against Los […]
Nevada Concealed Firearm Permit Holders Lose NICS Exemption for Private Transfers
Nevada Concealed Firearm Permit Holders Lose NICS Exemption for Private Transfers Nevada Concealed Firearm Permit holders are set to get a lump of coal in their stocking this Christmas. Nevadans with a permit have long-enjoyed NICS-exempt status, which exempts these law-abiding individuals from having to undergo a National Instant Criminal Background Check System check every […]
No Gov. Northam, Your Gun Ban is NOT Constitutional
No Gov. Northam, Your Gun Ban is NOT Constitutional As Virginia gun owners have shown their displeasure with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed attack on their rights in city and county meetings across the Old Dominion, Northam has been forced to answer questions about he and gun control financier Michael Bloomberg’s gun ban agenda. In doing so, the […]
Myth busted: Campus carry never caused that increase in violence liberals predicted
Myth busted: Campus carry never caused that increase in violence liberals predicted The argument in favor of arbitrarily revoking the Second Amendment rights of college students, as is done in dozens of states, has ostensibly been rooted in safety concerns. And it just got a lot weaker. View full story Originally posted at http://www.nraila.org/
Virginia Gov. Northam Seeks Gun Registration as Down Payment on Gun Confiscation
Virginia Gov. Northam Seeks Gun Registration as Down Payment on Gun Confiscation Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) must think that Old Dominion gun owners are stupid. After months of Northam and his Michael Bloomberg-backed General Assembly allies advocating for the enactment of gun confiscation legislation, the governor has told the Virginia Mercury that he will […]
Senate Confirms Hunter-Friendly Candidate to Oversee Wildlife Management
Senate Confirms Hunter-Friendly Candidate to Oversee Wildlife Management The NRA-ILA applauds the U. S. Senate for confirming Aurelia Skipwith to serve as director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). View full story Originally posted at http://www.nraila.org/
Bloomberg Fumbles Facts, Laws in Gun-Control Policy Rollout
Bloomberg Fumbles Facts, Laws in Gun-Control Policy Rollout Michael Bloomberg, who has spent years bankrolling the gun-control movement, fumbled facts and made muddled claims on how gun laws work while laying out his campaign’s gun-control plan on Thursday. Bloomberg appeared to misunderstand what the FBI’s firearms background check system does, seemed to make up a […]
Member Spotlight: Meet the hunter who stands up to those who call her a ‘murderer’
Member Spotlight: Meet the hunter who stands up to those who call her a ‘murderer’ America’s hunters are increasingly under fire by political extremists. Hunter and philanthropic consultant Britt Longoria has been at the center of an online hate campaign by animal rights extremists who don’t understand where their food comes from, and who show […]
Sorry, Not Sorry – Government Downplays Security Breach of “Buyback” Database
Sorry, Not Sorry – Government Downplays Security Breach of “Buyback” Database New Zealand’s dumpster fire of a government-mandated “buyback” program has become even more of a hot spot of contention. Sources indicate that the sensitive personal information of gun owners kept in a police database became accessible to users of the buyback program website. The […]
Pro-Gun Bill Introduced to Protect Lawful Gun Carriers from Federal-State Legal Trap
Pro-Gun Bill Introduced to Protect Lawful Gun Carriers from Federal-State Legal Trap Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced a bill that would protect persons lawfully carrying firearms under state law, including in those states that do not require a carry permit, from being snared by a confusing provision of federal criminal law. […]
Crooked California: Bad Gun Control Laws Once Again Foster Official Corruption
Crooked California: Bad Gun Control Laws Once Again Foster Official Corruption In news that will not shock gun rights supporters, the anti-gun utopia of California has provided further evidence that unjust gun control laws invite official corruption. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, former San […]
Florida Alert! NRA’s Statement on Second Amendment Sanctuary Cities & Counties
Florida Alert! NRA’s Statement on Second Amendment Sanctuary Cities & Counties We know a lot of you don’t cruise the Internet so we thought this message was important enough to send it directly to you. View full story Originally posted at http://www.nraila.org/
Massachusetts: Hearing on Bill to Mandate Doctors Push State’s Anti-Gun Agenda
Massachusetts: Hearing on Bill to Mandate Doctors Push State’s Anti-Gun Agenda On December 10th, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health will hear House Bill 2005 to impose a mandatory requirement for doctors to ask patients about firearms in their homes and for the type of “counseling” they would have to provide for those who […]
NRA’s Statement on Second Amendment Sanctuaries
NRA’s Statement on Second Amendment Sanctuaries Read the NRA’s statement on Second Amendment sanctuaries. “It is the tyrannical nature of politicians that triggers sanctuary, not the other way around…” View full story Originally posted at http://www.nraila.org/
