Federal Firearm Laws

The Georgetown County School Board will have major issues to consider when it meets next including the district’s concealed weapons ban. The school district has attracted state’s Attorney General Henry McMaster’s attention regarding its ban of concealed weapons on all school property, which is more stringent than state law. McMaster released an opinion in December [...]

With the Joint Facilities Committee’s ban on firearms in the State House, it has become painfully obvious that some members of the Legislature have yet to learn from history. Think of all the horrific acts that have been perpetrated on the law abiding citizens of our great nation Columbine, Virginia Tech, Luby’s Cafe, and the [...]

During Christmas week, a registered sex offender with a conviction for attempted murder used a gun to take three hostages at a Wytheville, Va., post office. Not too surprisingly, the national media gave the crime extensive news coverage. Such sensationalism leaves a distorted image about what happens with guns every day in the United States. [...]

Assembly Bill 357 is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Committee on Public Safety on Tuesday, January 12. Source: nra-ila-updates

A press release regarding the long gun registry backfired on federal NDP candidate Tania Cameron on Monday, making the false claim that the prorogation of Parliament would keep the registry alive. When Parliament was called off on Dec. 30 at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Cameron’s release stated it would kill “all bills [...]

By now the story of Gary Tudesko, the Willows High School junior who was expelled after Interquest search dogs sniffed out two unloaded shotguns in his pickup, has spread far and wide, thanks to the Internet. Both the National Rifle Association and the California Rifle and Pistol Association Legal Foundation have come to the youth’s [...]

Gun rights advocates said Wednesday they plan to push to allow guns near Indiana workplaces during the current legislative session. The bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, would not allow guns to be carried in actual workplaces, but would permit Hoosiers to have guns in locked vehicles in parking lots. Source: nra-ila-updates

Carrying guns in public might be outlawed only at the courthouse and the jailhouse under one of at least two major firearms bills expected to be before state lawmakers this year. Lawmakers don’t officially converge on the state Capitol until next week for a session expected to focus mainly on bleak revenues and budget cuts. [...]

Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) has accepted a plea deal for perjury charges stemming from accusations that she did not report gifts she received from a local developer. In a teary announcement yesterday, she resigned her post as the Mayor of Baltimore as part of the plea. Source: nra-ila-updates

The Vermont State Legislature reconvened in Montpelier this week for the 2009-2010 Legislative Session. One piece of anti-gun legislation has already been introduced. Source: nra-ila-updates