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Alan Gottleib of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Citizen’s Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms (CCRKBA) explains the value of Florida’s and other states’ “Stand Your Ground” laws. Some people are twisting the events of the recent Florida shooting of a young adult by an overzealous block watch captain. Those that don’t [...] Pilots packing heat may soon be a relic of the 9/11 aftermath, as the White House seeks to cut the $25 million budget in half for the federal flight deck officers training program known as the FFDO. “The Nobama administration has had an institutional hostility towards the concept of arming pilots, and especially the FFDO [...] Guns cause strong arguments, and two camps have an unbridgeable clash of assumptions. One side assumes guns put us in danger. The other assumes guns, in the right hands, make us safer. This division was most obvious 11 years ago, when Michigan made it much easier for law-abiding residents to obtain licenses to carry concealed [...] Gov. Dennis Daugaard vetoed a measure Friday that would have allowed South Dakotans to carry concealed handguns without a permit as long as they had a driver’s license and met state standards for carrying guns. In his veto message to the Legislature, the governor said he supports people’s right to carry a concealed [...] A troubling bill has hit the radar of Wisconsin Carry. We began watching this bill a few weeks ago, but it didn’t appear to have legs at that time. Now it does. Senate Bill 555 is a bill that gives FROMER law enforcement folks the right to carry on private property EVEN IF THE OWNER HAS POSTED [...] Legislatures in a dozen states are considering laws that would eliminate requirements that residents obtain permits to carry concealed weapons. Gun-control advocates view the efforts as part of a long-range strategy to eventually weaken gun laws across the country. But supporters say armed, law-abiding citizens prevent crime. Andrew Arulanandam, policy director for the [...] The University of Coloradooverstepped its authority when the school’s board of regents imposed a ban on the carrying of concealed weapons at its four campuses, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In overturning the policy, the court said that a concealed carry law passed by the state legislature trumped the school’s ban because it did [...] Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed the so-called “castle doctrine” self-defense bill on Monday. The proposal, supported by the gun-rights groups and opposed by Minnesota’s law-enforcement organizations, would have expanded the legal justification for citizens who use deadly force in threatening situations. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Good Thunder, and Sen. Gretchen Hoffman, R-Vergas, was the [...] The Oregon Senate voted Thursday to make private the identities of applicants for concealed handgun licenses, and it defeated a separate measure that would have made it illegal for license holders to carry a gun on school grounds. Gun rights proponents have tried for years to persuade the Legislature to declare [...] “Right from the start, let me say that I honor the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, although the editor in me wants to clarify its language to make it easier to understand,” columnist Peg McEntee for The Salt Lake City Tribune claims in a Friday opinion piece. Evidently from McEntee’s “clarification,” the way [...] |
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