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The government would not be allowed to seize legal firearms in emergencies under a measure that has passed both chambers of the Hawaii Legislature. The House approved the measure Tuesday, sending it to a conference committee for final negotiations. The proposal gained momentum after February’s tsunami warning, when lawmakers said their constituents asked if their [...] State officials in Wyoming and Utah plan to enter a lawsuit pending in Montana to argue the federal government lacks authority to regulate firearms that are made and sold in the same state. The attorneys general of Wyoming and Utah say they plan to file a brief in the Montana case this week. It’s possible [...] Just about everybody on the Metro Police force has heard of Tim Farrell, patient and he sometimes gets mistaken for a law enforcement officer. Farrell is simply a 29-year-old wireless Internet engineer — and a gun rights crusader. He is one of what appears to be a growing number of people taking up the “open-carry” [...] Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law two bills supported by gun-rights activists. 1 of the bills signed Monday would broaden the state’s current restrictions on local governments’ ability to regulate or tax guns and ammunition. One specific provision bars local governments from prohibiting a person with a concealed weapons permit from possessing a gun [...] I don’t drive a pickup truck with a gun rack. I don’t hunt. I’ve never fired a weapon and never intend to do so. With all of that said, side effects I consider attempts to gut the words of the Founding Farmers in the Second Amendment as an assault on our collective freedom. Those 27 [...] According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, cheap the term “saber rattling” is defined as: a threatening of war, buy information pills or a menacing show of armed force. Some people call it posturing. In the animal world it’s related to establishing “pecking order”. Some people would have us believe that a pecking order is [...] On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments addressing whether the Second Amendment applies outside of jurisdictions controlled by the federal government. The court will almost certainly say that it does, and soon it may consider a question that should be equally easy to answer: whether the Second Amendment applies outside of the home. [...] They’re sworn to uphold the law, but some Iowa sheriff’s aren’t happy with new rules that take away their power to decide who can pack heat and who can’t. Until now, sheriff’s have been able to deny people concealed/carry gun permits if they saw fit. Under the new law, they “must issue” permits to anyone [...] A federal appeals court in Washington will have the chance to examine the latest version of the District of Columbia’s gun restrictions, in a possible test of how to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in D.C. v. Heller. Lawyers for Dick Heller, a name party in the earlier case, filed a notice Thursday [...] It’s been a quiet week in Jefferson City. Legislators writing laws. Debating the budget. Training with handguns. About 16 Missouri lawmakers — along with several legislative staffers and at least one representative’s wife — are taking a firearms-training course sponsored by the bipartisan “Sportsmen’s Caucus” that will qualify them for concealed weapons permits. Tuesday’s lesson [...] |
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