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Within the next month, Congress will be taking actions that will impact our Second Amendment rights. Here’s what we’re facing. On or about September 30, Congress will consider a “continuing resolution” (CR) to fund the government from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012. Well, you can be sure about this — when it [...] A whistle-blowing agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has received a response to his Freedom of Information Act request to find out how much money the agency is spending with the private law firm of Delany, Siegel, Zorn & Associates to handle Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [...] With Bushmaster Firearm’s sudden announcement last week that it will close March 31 and lay off 73 employees in the process, the property’s owner, state and local leaders are scrambling to replace one of Windham’s best-known and most successful companies. Dick Dyke, the former owner of Bushmaster who bought it out of bankruptcy in 1976 from [...] Gun rights advocates in Utah are pushing a new law that would let residents carry loaded, concealed firearms in public without a permit. In its newsletter this week, the Utah Shooting Sports Council listed the so-called “Constitutional carry” law as one of its top priorities for the 2011 Legislature, which convenes in January. The council says [...] Sen. David Vitter, R-La., whose support for gun rights has earned him support from the National Rifle Association, is considering whether to buck the organization and back a bill barring people on the U.S. terrorism watch list from buying guns. “The recent attempted bombing in Times Square by a naturalized citizen has added a new, troubling [...] Illinois House members are preparing to vote on a bill to ban the sale of certain firearms by Illinois gun manufacturers to Illinois residents. The legislation would affect four area gun manufacturers — Springfield Armory and ArmaLite in Geneseo, Rock River Arms in Colona and Lewis Machine and Tool in Milan — that employ several hundred [...] There was palpable glee among gun-control activists as three big-ticket police groups stood shoulder to shoulder to defend the long-gun registry. Wonderful! How could the gun nuts, hunters’ lobby and various other hayseeds (the ‘less enlightened in the Conservative caucus,’ sniffed one editorial) maintain their retrograde stance now? After all — thus goes the calculus — cops [...] The Colorado Bureau of Investigation would continue conducting firearm background checks, known as Insta-Check, under a bill that passed out of the House yesterday. Gun rights enthusiasts have blasted Insta-Check as being unnecessary and costly, while gun control activists praise the state background check as a way to prevent gun-related tragedies in Colorado. House Bill 1391 would [...] If Jim Zumbo had the National Shooting Sports Foundation in his corner a few years ago, he might still be the hunting editor of Outdoor Life magazine. Zumbo was literally driven from the temple after expressing discouraging words in his web site blog about the viability of so-called “black rifles” or AR-15-style guns as hunting firearms. [...] The U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping ruling on Thursday that invalidated large chunks of campaign finance law arose in part from an unlikely source: the emergence of Facebook, YouTube, and blogs, and the decline of traditional media outlets. A 5-4 majority concluded that technological changes have chipped away at the justification for a law that allows individuals [...] |
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