Politics

Everyone was wondering what was taking Texas Governor Greg Abbott so long. The legislature passed a constitutional carry bill he said he’d sign a couple of weeks ago. It would have become law on Sunday without his signature. We’d heard from reliable sources that there was a signing ceremony planned for tomorrow morning at the…

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA — A federal judge has ruled California’s assault weapons ban, in place for 30 years, as unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled Friday that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most other states. Governor Newsom released a statement about…

Austin, TX – Gun Owners of America (GOA) released the following statement after the Texas Senate followed the lead of the Texas House and voted to accept the Legislative Conference Committee Report on HB 1927, otherwise known as the Firearm Carry Act of 2021, and commonly known as Constitutional Carry. Rachel Malone, GOA’s Texas Director,…

Constitutional carry (though it isn’t yet final) hasn’t been the only win for gun rights to come out of the waning days of the Texas legislative session. Early this morning, the Senate passed the HB 957, which addresses the regulation of suppressors made within the Lone Star State. The bill does three things: It repeals the…

By Dan Zimmerman via TTAG and republished with permission. Last month, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bill that would have extended concealed carry to all adults in the state. The governor had been a big opponent of campus carry and didn’t want to see the number of guns legally carried on Kansas’s college and university campuses…

By Dan Zimmerman via TTAG and republished with permission. Under current law, it’s not legal to touch a firearm in the state of Illinois without a Firearm Owner’s Identification card. This is an unnecessary hurdle to lawful gun ownership that the state of Illinois has erected to make the process of purchasing and owning a…

By Dan Zimmerman via TTAG and republished with permission. The Supreme Court Justices are willing to take another crack at the city of New York’s unconstitutionally restrictive gun laws that ban bearing arms. The Court has announced that they’ve granted cert to New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Corlett which centers on whether the Second…

By Dan Zimmerman via TTAG and republished with permission. Is there anything more you really need to know besides that quote above from Kansas’s Democrat Governor Laura Kelly? That exact phrase has been the preamble to so much double-dealing, duplicity and outright betrayal by squishy, linquini-spined politicians over the decades that it makes gun rights…

No surprises here as new legislation has been introduced shortly after President Biden announced plans and guidance for new gun control measures. One of the first things up is the banning of magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and the Senate on Wednesday introduced gun control legislation…