Federal Firearm Laws

Source: NRA-ILA Hunting and Conservation Updates

The second Constitutional bookend corralling the modern American gun control movement is just about in place. The Supreme Court’s oral argument Tuesday morning strongly suggests that a majority of the justices intend to extend onto the state and local scene the Second Amendment’s individual gun rights. Once such a ruling is in place (bet the [...]

When Chicago passed a ban on handgun ownership in 1982, it was part of a trend. Washington, D.C., had done it in 1976, and a few Chicago suburbs took up the cause in the following years. They all expected to reduce the number of guns and thus curtail bloodshed. Source: nra-ila-updates

A “VICTORY for commonsense” has been reached in the High Court at Palmerston North after a gun owner took police to task over recent changes to firearm classifications. Source: nra-ila-updates

The Florida Senate has passed a bill that will force lawmakers to keep their hands off a trust fund that covers the costs of the state’s concealed weapons permitting program. The bill (SB 1158), a top priority for the National Rifle Association, passed Tuesday. It now goes to the House where a similar measure (HB [...]

From Virginia to Arizona, federal and state gun laws are loosening everywhere from national parks to Amtrak trains. But in St. Paul, a proposal that would send Minnesota in the opposite direction is headed toward its first hearing Friday a bill requiring background checks on the purchaser of any firearm sold at a gun show. [...]

Bills from the House of Delegates that seek to expand gun rights come today before a new subcommittee weighted with Senate Democrats that appears to have been created to shoot them down. But the man who would be inclined to sign a number of those bills into law — Gov. Bob McDonnell — said killing [...]

The latest and most significant effort to repeal Virginia’s gun laws faces a critical vote on Thursday, when senators will consider a measure that would undo the state’s one-gun-a-month law. Source: nra-ila-updates

SB-530 by Senator Thad Altman was heard in the Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs this morning (Thursday, March 4, 2010) and passed by a vote of 7 to 0.SB-530 is a bill to STOP Florida adoption agencies from forcing potential adoptive parents to register their firearms with the agency as a condition [...]

News stories and press releases on the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the McDonald v. City of Chicago case. Source: nra-ila-updates