Federal Firearm Laws

Canada’s police chiefs are conducting a full court press to preserve the long gun registry, the dismantling of which could begin with a vote in Parliament next month. At their annual meeting here in Edmonton last Monday, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) insisted the registry was an invaluable police investigation tool and [...]

San Francisco, where plastic bags, soda drinks and mishandled recycling cause health hazard panic, the reopening of a totally legit gun store was bound to catch some neighborhood flak. These aren’t gangbanger street guns but licensed firearms, complete with background checks and more official limitations than we put on torture. Still, the Northwest Bernal Alliance [...]

When Portland Mayor Sam Adams recently proposed three new city gun laws and two changes to existing city code, he joined several mayors across the country who are trying to pass gun control laws that state lawmakers would not or could not. Establishing such gun laws is probably a tall order. Firearms advocates are quick [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today denied a petition calling for a ban on the production and distribution of lead hunting ammunition. EPA sent a letter to the petitioners explaining the rejection. Source: nra-ila-updates

Mayor Richard M. Daley has long insisted that the city`s restrictive gun laws including the handgun ban that was essentially nullified recently by the United States Supreme Court have been a key crime fighting tool. But court records show that relatively few people were convicted of violating the laws, and even top city officials have [...]

Chester City Council passed an ordinance requiring firearm owners to report lost or stolen handguns or face possible fines and/or imprisonment Wednesday. Source: nra-ila-updates

Gun enthusiasts say Davis County commissioners overstepped their bounds this week by enacting a ban on the discharge of firearms on its now populous east bench. “They chose to do something they don’t have the authority to do. The state code is clear on that,” said Brent Tenney, a Salt Lake County resident who actively [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court says Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms. The EPA says the bullets for those guns may be banned as an environmental hazard. The endless power grabs by the federal leviathan know no boundaries of law, science or even common sense. The Environmental Protection Agency of Lisa Jackson [...]

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Last week, the NRA-backed “Firearms Excise Tax Improvement Act of 2010” (H.R. 5552) was signed into law. Source: nra-ila-updates