NRA hails Republican attempt to overturn Obama-era ‘gun grab’-The National Rifle Association (NRA) is applauding efforts by Republican lawmakers to overturn a controversial Obama-era gun regulation. The Social Security Administration has faced scrutiny over a plan that would make it difficult for certain disability beneficiaries to purchase guns, if they need the government’s help managing their money. The NRA lobbied hard against the rule.
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| Today, the Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs held a hearing on Senate Bill 53. |
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| On Thursday, February 2, at 1:30pm, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear House Bill 1387 and House Bill 1122. |
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| The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released for public comment a plan that will determine what lands within the Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM) will be closed to target shooting. The BLM has already held three public meetings and due to the high level of interest two more hearings have been scheduled. |
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| Next Tuesday, January 31, the New Mexico Senate Public Affairs Committee will meet at 1:30pm in Room 321 of the State Capitol in Santa Fe to hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 48, the NRA-opposed ban on private firearms sales and transfers sponsored by state Senator Richard Martinez (D-Espanola) and being pushed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s national gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. |
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| As part of an effort to roll back Obama-era regulations, Congress is expected to take up legislation as early as next week that would prevent the government from declaring some Social Security recipients unfit to own guns after they’ve been deemed mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs. |
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| Congressional Republicans are set to overturn a slew of Obama-era regulations next week. |
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| For the past 30 years Rebecca Peters has been at the forefront of gun law reform, both here and overseas.She helped build the National Coalition for Gun Control which worked with John Howard to reform the firearm laws after the Port Arthur massacre. |
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| Fresh from working to get President Trump elected, the National Rifle Association is moving to help his attorney general designee, Jeff Sessions, with a new TV ad that calls the Alabama senator a friend of cops and the Second Amendment. |
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| Pettis County prosecutors filed charges Sunday night against three men who were allegedly involved in a home invasion Saturday. The sheriff’s department said a fourth suspect was shot by the resident inside the home. Piaget Deitas, Joyter Meseky and Alexander T. Alexander were each charged with burglary in the first degree. Charges against the fourth suspect, Allen Deitas, are pending his release from a hospital in Columbia. Authorities said Deitas was shot at least twice during the incident. The four men are accused of going into the apartment and stealing a pistol. When they were confronted, one of the suspects reportedly pointed the pistol at the resident. The resident then fired another pistol, hitting Deitas. Authorities say the resident acted in self-defense and the prosecutor declined to file charges against him. |
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| A clerk who said he feared for his life fired a shot at a robber who was leaving with cash stolen from a Manchester market Monday night, police said.Surveillance video originally obtained by WMUR shows the masked robber coming into Rodriguez Market and Restaurant at 519 Amory St., and placing a bag on the counter. Police said he claimed to have a gun and demanded money. The clerk handed over some cash, and the robber started to leave the store, officers said. “At some point in time, he felt that the individual was reaching for a gun, so the clerk, who happened to be armed, took a shot and fired one round at the individual as he fled the market,” Lt. Brian O’Keefe said. “He reaching into his pocket and that’s what got me scared and afraid for my life. As he was walking out he reached and I let one go,” said Junior Rodriguez, owner the market. Police said they don’t know if the clerk’s shot hit the robber. Detectives searched the area, but were unable to locate a bullet. “I was almost at the door, and then I heard the gunfire, and I backed up,” witness Jamie Godbout said. Godbout said he was on his way to the shop to pick up a few things. “I was just walking to the store, and before I got to the door, some guy ran out,” he said. “And then I heard a gunshot, and I backed up and put my hands up so he didn’t shoot at me, thinking I was an accomplice or anything.” Godbout said he didn’t get a good look at the robber, but police are investigating whether the robbery is connected to at least three other hold-ups in the same neighborhood over the past few weeks. Police said that in the three cases, the robber fits the same general description and was armed with a silver handgun. Authorities said Monday night’s robbery was very dangerous, and innocent people could have been hurt. “We don’t recommend fighting back,” O’Keefe said. “We don’t recommend taking shots at people. He has a right to bear arms and has a right to do what he did, but we don’t recommend that as a police agency.” Manchester police said the robberies are still under investigation, and anyone with information is encouraged to give them a call. |
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| Last week the Greatest Show on Earth surrendered and folded its tent. Buoyed by its circus victory, PETA now sets its sights on two other activities it abhors and vows to exterminate: hunting. If you think poking an elephant with a stick got PETA worked up, imagine what it thinks about shooting a deer or a dove. |
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