Federal Firearm Laws

A group of Western Republicans are searching high and low for an opportunity to push ahead with legislation to allow citizens to bring concealed weapons into national parks. Source: NRA-ILA News

If gun bans truly reduced the risk of mass public shootings, then gun-free zones would be refuges from such havoc. Sadly, the exact opposite is true. All multiple-victim public shootings in the United States with more than three fatalities have occurred where concealed handguns are prohibited. Moreover, the worst primary and secondary school shootings have [...]

Americans don’t need the NRA to tell them that the Barack Obama Joe Biden administration could spell oblivion for their freedoms: Americans are telling us! Source: NRA-ILA News

Senator Richard Alloway II (R 33) introduced legislation today that would establish the Castle Doctrine in Pennsylvania to protect gun owners who act in self defense. Source: NRA-ILA News

State Rep. Brian Munzlinger, R Williamstown, has a response for those who argue that a concealed carry law would create additional danger on campus. He says it follows “common sense.” “Criminals tend to take the soft targets where it’s a gun free zone,” he said of the history of campus attacks. Source: NRA-ILA News

Rep. Frank Lautenberg, D New Jersey, has introduced a bill to stop private sales of firearms. Source: NRA-ILA News

My editors would like me to take a nuanced, clever stance on the Second Amendment. I cannot. No means no. Not means not. Just like the First Amendment. No infringement on Free Speech. No mixing Church and State. No Gun Control. Source: NRA-ILA News

Every so often I find myself stepping into the minefield that is public discussion of guns, gun violence, gun control and how these things relate to the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Because of misleading public statements by the president of the United States and his secretary of state, it’s now time to do so [...]

U.S. Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard) issued the following statement in response to Attorney General Eric Holder’s comments about the “Tiahrt amendment.” During a hearing held by the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Holder stated the administration was concerned that the Tiahrt amendment restricts information “needed by state and [...]

Legislation closing public access to all information about Tennesseans with handgun carry permits won the House budget subcommittee’s approval Wednesday and goes to the Finance Committee next week. Source: NRA-ILA News