Maryland: Reminder to Attend Earlier Hearing Date for Anti-Gun Bill – As previously reported, House Bill 1000, the “Terrorist Watchlist” bill, was rescheduled for an earlier hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, February 26, at 1:00 p.m.
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| Today was a successful day for gun-owners in the The Hawkeye State. Five pro-gun bills passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan votes and will now go to the Senate for further consideration. Please contact your state Senator and politely urge them to SUPPORT these pro-gun bills. |
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| You’d be hard pressed to come up with a state more rich with the tradition of hunting than Maine. From the commonplace white-tailed deer and turkeys to the more eclectic bear and moose, Maine is home to a wide variety of game that calls to America’s sportsman both near and far. Which is why the idea of hanging on to the Sunday hunting ban is so perplexing. |
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| Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 24, two pro-gun bills are scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety Committee: |
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| “Only Eight Years of President Hillary Can Take the Supreme Court Away From Conservatives” That headline on the Daily Beast website succinctly lays out the devastating threat to our liberty that defines the coming November elections—demanding that we as NRA members mobilize as never before. |
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| Yesterday, the West Virginia Senate overwhelmingly passed House Bill 4145, important legislation that would recognize a law-abiding adult’s fundamental right to carry a concealed weapon for self-defense without government-mandated taxes and permitting. Your immediate action is needed to ensure HB 4145 becomes law. Please contact your Delegate and urge them to OPPOSE any attempt to send HB 4145 to Conference Committee. |
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| As previously reported, Senate Bill 1266, an important bill which would improve Arizona’s current state firearms preemption statute, passed the Senate on Thursday, February 18, with an 18-11 vote. SB 1266 was sent to the House of Representatives for further consideration where it is currently waiting to be scheduled for a House committee hearing. Your NRA-ILA will keep you updated on the status of this critical bill as it progresses through the Arizona Legislature. |
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| Fifty days into the open carry era in Texas, things in the Austin metro area have been conspicuously calm.The policy’s critics thought the law allowing gun license holders to openly carry handguns would usher in a modern-day Wild West, but the American-Statesman found only two 911 calls have been made to Austin area police since the law took effect Jan. 1. Neither case resulted in criminal charges or any violence. |
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| The lawsuit, filed in December 2014 and seeking unspecified financial damages, said the AR-15 assault weapon used in the attack that killed 20 young children and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, should never have been sold because it had no reasonable civilian purpose. |
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| Mr. President, we are all saddened by the recent death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I extend my sympathies to his family. His death is a great loss to the nation.This is true for so many reasons. Justice Scalia changed legal discourse in this country. He focused legal argument on text and original understanding, rather than a judge’s own views of changing times. He was a clear thinker. His judicial opinions and other writings were insightful, witty, and unmistakably his own. |
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| The National Rifle Association is making a big push for passage of a bill that would prevent private property owners in Maine who receive public housing subsidies from restricting tenants’ possession of guns in their rental units. |
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| Obama cited a series of executive actions he took last month designed to expand background checks on gun purchases, but he added that “it’s clear we’re going to need to do more to keep innocent Americans safe.” |
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| Virginia inched closer Monday to allowing all state judges, including those on the Supreme Court, to carry concealed handguns with no permit or training, saying they need to be able to protect themselves from vengeful litigants. |
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| People 21 years and older would be allowed to carry concealed guns in West Virginia without permits or training under a bill that passed the Senate on Monday. |
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| The state House voted Monday to legalize carrying concealed guns on Georgia’s college campuses, upping pressure on their Senate counterparts to overturn the state’s longtime ban on so-called “campus carry.” |
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| A contentious proposal to extend the waiting period on gun purchases from three to 10 days to allow more time for background checks to clear has passed its first major hurdle in the Oregon Legislature. |
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| A prosecutor in New Jersey has dropped a felony gun charge against a Pennsylvania corrections officer, noting that officers only learned that the guard had a gun in his car because he was the victim of a drunken driving crash. |
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| Under the proposed measure, registration of weapons identified in the Prohibition-era National Firearms Act filed with a local law enforcement agency would be exempt from public records requests. It passed through the House State Affairs Committee Monday morning in a vote along party lines. |
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| The Kansas House approved a proposal Monday to amend the state’s constitution to declare an explicit right to hunt, fish and trap. |
