New Hampshire: Important Campus Carry Hearing Tomorrow! – Tomorrow, February 2, the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee has scheduled a hearing to discuss House Bill 1314, important campus carry legislation, at 11:00am in Room 204 of the New Hampshire State House. If you are available, we urge you to attend this hearing and voice your strong support of HB 1314.
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| Tomorrow, February 2, the Alabama Legislature will convene for the 2016 regular legislative session. The 2016 legislative session is poised to include numerous legislative initiatives that will significantly impact law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen in Alabama. It’s vital that gun owners and sportsmen across the Yellowhammer State stay actively involved throughout 2016. |
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| A pair of men entered a gift card establishment in Hampton, Va. and attempted to rob the store. An employee responded to the threat by retrieving a gun and shooting both thieves, killing one and prompting the other to flee. Police captured the wounded thief a short distance from the store. The armed citizen is not expected to face any charges. |
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| The gun lobby is often portrayed as a goliath, but in the fight in Nevada over the Background Check Initiative, it might be the underdog. That is, if the campaign to extend background check requirements to private-party gun sales and transfers unfolds like it did in 2014 for a similar measure in Washington state, where the gun lobby was outspent several times over. |
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| With the South Carolina Legislature’s 2016 legislative session underway, a number of bills which could affect your Second Amendment rights have already been introduced. Notably, NRA-supported House Bill 4703, introduced by House Judiciary Chairman Greg Delleney (R-43), seeks to clarify the Protection of Persons and Property Act (South Carolina’s “Castle Doctrine”) to ensure that a defendant who is denied protection from prosecution under this Act is immediately able to appeal such a denial. |
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| This week, the House of Delegates is likely to consider House Bill 4145, important legislation that would allow a law-abiding individual to lawfully carry a concealed handgun without a permit, for its final vote. Please contact your Delegate and respectfully urge him or her to support HB 4145. |
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| A Bloomberg-sponsored poll, made public in extravagant Bloomberg style amid shrimp and champagne, delivered some sour news about Michael R. Bloomberg himself: Few Iowa voters like him as he weighs a third party White House run. A poll of likely caucusgoers conducted for Bloomberg Politics and The Des Moines Register and released on Saturday night found just 17 percent of Democrats and 9 percent of Republicans had a “favorable” view of Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York. |
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| George Soros in December donated $6 million to the leading super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, marking the return of the billionaire financier as among the biggest givers in all of American politics.The massive check brings to $8 million the Hungarian-born investor’s total 2015 giving to pro-Clinton groups. |
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| With the Iowa caucuses just two days away, Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton made a pointed plea to voters, urging them to make gun control a voting issue in the election. |
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| On Friday, the firm changed its policy regarding firearms, banning any such peer-to-peer sales on its network. That means users can no longer offer or coordinate the private sale of firearms on the site. This policy also applies to the sale of gun parts and ammunition, said a Facebook spokeswoman. |
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| House Bill 4147, from House Majority Leader Jennifer Williamson, would clarify that gun purchasers whose background checks take longer than 72 hours won’t be able to buy weapons by default. Instead, they would have to wait as long as it took for the Oregon State Police to complete the check. |
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| Many more Delawareans are carrying legally concealed deadly weapons these days.That’s a fact.Concealed carry permits jumped 56 percent from 2014 to 2015. |
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| Hawaii gun owners would be required to have insurance for their firearms and renew their gun registrations every five years under a bill introduced Wednesday at the State Legislature, proposals that gun advocates said are unneeded and would have a chilling effect on constitutional gun rights. |
