Oregon: Deeply Flawed Legislation Scheduled for Final House Vote Tomorrow, Your Urgent Action Needed! – Tomorrow, HB 4147 is scheduled for its final vote in the House of Representatives. It is imperative that you contact your state Representative immediately to voice your strong opposition to HB 4147!
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| Yesterday, February 16, the Georgia House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee passed House Bill 859 on a 10-3 vote. HB 859, sponsored by Representative Rick Jasperse (R-11), seeks to amend restrictions in state law that prohibit law-abiding Georgia Weapons License (GWL) holders from being able to protect themselves on college and university campuses. |
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| As previously reported, government leaders in Virginia struck a bipartisan deal to postpone the revocation of reciprocity agreements until March 1. Today, February 17, three bipartisan House bills were reported out of the Senate Courts of Justice Committee in the General Assembly. Tomorrow, the companion Senate bills will be heard on the House floor. |
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| A man wielding a 12-inch knife attempted to break into several home in Las Vegas, Nev. After unsuccessfully attempting to kick in the doors of several homes, the would-be intruder tried to get into another house through a doggie door. The homeowner warned the home invader that he was armed with a .45-caliber pistol, but when the criminal continued to try to get inside, the homeowner fired at the man, striking him in the head and shoulder. Following the incident, neighbor Nicole Slokken, who owns one of the homes the intruder attempted to break into, said of her armed neighbor to local media, “The detective told me the neighbor very well could have saved our lives.” |
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| Remember a year ago – February 13, 2015, to be precise – when the Obama administration presented a convoluted rationale by which M855, the second most popular variety of ammunition used in the nation’s most popular rifle, was to be banned? At the time, Obama’s White House spokesman said that banning M855 would be a “common sense step” about which “everyone should agree.” Banning the ammunition would mean “greater gun safety,” proclaimed the New York Times. Failure to ban it would be “untenable” and “preposterous,” pontificated the Washington Post. Or, as the Los Angeles Times put it, “another loss for public safety.” |
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| Having shaped the theory itself, Scalia then employed it in one of the most important cases of our lifetime: the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller, which restored a previously lost clause of the Constitution: the Second Amendment. Since the 1960s, gun control advocates — who were rarely originalists themselves — had been contending that the right to keep and bear arms in the Second Amendment solely protected what they called a “collective right” of states to have a militia. And most lower federal courts of appeals then adopted this view when considering newly-enacted gun control measures. Then, starting in the 1980s, originalist scholars began pushing back with evidence that, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, the amendment protected the fundamental right of individuals to own, possess, carry and use firearms, subject to the reasonable regulation thereof. |
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| Saturday’s death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has ignited a blue-flamed debate in Washington about whether the Senate should consider approving a nominee from a president with less than a year remaining in his tenure. |
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| Delaware gun purchases surged in December and January – an increase fueled by nontraditional gun owners seeking protection, firearm sellers and advocates say. |
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| The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, said that the ban on carrying firearms on campus set out by the University of Alaska’s Board of Regents conflicts with Alaskans’ constitutional right to bear arms. He referenced attacks at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University and other mass shootings and said that gun-free zones attract violence. |
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| At least two area local government public buildings had signs posted Friday prohibiting firearms — despite recent Alabama attorney general rulings that such messages were illegal under state gun laws. |
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| A Tennessee Senate committee recently approved a bill that would prohibit state colleges and universities from taking disciplinary action against an employee or student with a handgun-carry permit for transporting or storing a gun in their vehicle on campus. |
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| A “campus carry” bill legalizing firearms on Georgia’s college campuses passed a key House committee Tuesday, after the chairman unexpectedly added the bill to his panel’s agenda with little notice. |
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| Those who are wondering why exactly they should be alarmed by the prospect of President Obama’s replacing Antonin Scalia with yet another advocate of the “living Constitution” should look no further than the possibility that a post-Scalia Court will overturn D.C. vs. Heller. |
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| Tomorrow, February 17, Senate Bill 14 is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. SB 14 is important legislation that would recognize a law-abiding gun owner’s ability to possess a concealed firearm in a vehicle without first obtaining a government-issued permit. |
