Gun control advocates in Washington see their best chance yet for tougher laws – Gun control advocates in Washington believe they have the best opportunity yet to get tough restrictions on how some semiautomatic firearms are bought, sold and kept in homes.
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| Thanks to all your hard work last year, the Second Amendment saw resounding victories on Election Day 2016. From local state legislature races, to governor races, to Congress and the United States presidency, YOU showed up to elected pro-gun lawmakers into office. YOU did that. |
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| For the last several years, so-called “Firearms Freedom Acts” or “Second Amendment Preservation Acts” have attracted a lot of attention. Such legislation, passed or introduced in various states, seeks to make federal laws regarding firearms inapplicable to firearms and ammunition produced, sold, and used exclusively within the state’s borders on the premise that Congress’s power to regulate commerce among the states doesn’t reach purely in-state activities. |
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| On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), by a 16-6 vote. Zinke’s nomination now moves to the full Senate, where a confirmation vote will likely take place in the coming weeks. |
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| On Tuesday, February 7, the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will have a meeting in which they may have executive session on two anti-gun bills at 10:00 a.m. in LOB Room 204. |
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| This week, President Trump kept one of his most important campaign promises by nominating an originalist judge – Neil Gorsuch – to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last February. Scalia was the court’s foremost practitioner of originalism and textualism, judicial philosophies that seek to resolve constitutional questions by reference to the language of the document, as publicly understood at the time of its enactment. |
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| On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives issued a strong statement in support of the Second Amendment by passing H.J. Res. 40, which would repeal Barack Obama’s scandalous attempt to grab guns from thousands of vulnerable, law-abiding Social Security recipients. Anti-gun activists and their media typists have predictably reacted to the House vote with hysteria and dishonesty. In this case, it’s particularly troubling that self-proclaimed “progressives” immediately resorted to stigmatizing and stereotyping the mentally ill to whip up fear and misinformation. |
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| On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), by an 11-9 vote. Sessions’s nomination now moves to the full Senate, where a confirmation vote will likely take place in the coming week. The Judiciary Committee’s approval came a day later than anticipated, after Democrat committee members delayed the vote in order to express their displeasure with the Trump administration. The move led Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to remark, “Our friends on the other side seem to be upset about the outcome of the election on November 8. I guess you could say they’re going through the stages of grief.” |
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| Humane Watch, a group dedicated to calling out the Humane Society of the United States over its abuses of power and mishandling money, released a preview of an epic Super Bowl pre-game ad. The minute-long ad parodies HSUS commercials, but instead of cute puppies in cages, there are sad lawyers who “need your help.” “People often think we run pet shelters,” the ad says about HSUS. “That’s simply not true. We don’t run a single one. … Our real goal is to get the government to pass laws that eliminate farms with animals.” |
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| Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R) has prioritized Senate Bill 16, authored by state Senators Robert Nichols & Joan Huffman, an NRA-backed measure to eliminate the fees for original and renewal Licenses to Carry (LTC) in Texas. |
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| Yesterday, employee campus carry legislation, House Bill 1249, passed the House of Representatives with a 71-22 vote. |
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| Come join your fellow gun owners, sportsmen and Second Amendment supporters for a fish fry in Tavernier featuring special guest, NRA-ILA Grassroots Director Glen Caroline. |
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| The League of Women Voters is not who you think they are. The Florida League of Women Voters is Florida’s newest gun ban organization. |
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| An intruder who broke into a Lothian home was shot by the homeowner, Anne Arundel County police said. Police were called around 8 a.m. Thursday to the area of Mullen Lane and Old Ridge Path Lane, where they found a man who was shot. The man came into the home and was confronted by two homeowners, before the homeowner shot at the man twice, police said. |
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| Republicans appeared to be targeting environmental regulations, but they also addressed the priorities of gun rights groups and the broader business community. While Obama’s administration had authorized the sharing of information on those receiving federal disability payments in an effort to ensure those with mental illnesses were identified in gun sellers’ routine background checks, critics suggested it would prevent some Americans from lawfully obtaining firearms. |
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| The Republican-controlled Congress on Thursday scrapped Obama-era rules on the environment and guns, counting on a new ally in the White House to help reverse years of what the GOP calls excessive regulation. |
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| Gun control advocates and Inslee met at the Capitol Thursday to call for enhanced background checks when buying or selling assault weapons and to enforce safe gun storage. |
