Gun Rights

Ellen Carrington, 21, who was recently crowned Miss Tennessee, has a concealed weapons permit.

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) is planning to introduce a concealed carry reciprocity bill next week.

Writing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, gun-rights advocates Alan Gottlieb and Joe Waldron wrote that “Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, behaving like the would-be ruler of a ‘city state,’ has decided to ignore Washington's longstanding firearms statute regarding the legal carry of concealed handguns by licensed private citizens on city property.”

…Last week, the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would ban the purchase, transfer, and inheritance of many popular hunting guns, historical American firearms, and large-bore target firearms

Writing on the Buckeye Firearms Association website, Chad D. Baus takes a well-aimed rhetorical shot at presidential candidate John McCain.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has begun urging ATF to adopt an electronic Form 4473 ('E-4473') that would be voluntary for both consumers and dealers

As the mini-movement of open carry gains steam, handgun owners who might consider carrying their handguns openly can expect to hear a lot of hooey about how open carry will ruin the world, as the following shows.

With the Supreme Court poised to hand down a potentially landmark decision in the case, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fully expects to lose.

A Pennsylvania court sided with NRA and issued a permanent restraining order against two of the city of Philadelphia’s municipal gun control measures enacted in April.

…On Thursday June 5, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen issued Concealed Carry Permit #1 for a retired investigator. Van Hollen said he hoped other agencies would follow his lead. He said he has told them they have the authority to issue such permits under a four-year-old federal law that makes some of the thousands of retired Wisconsin officers able to carry a concealed weapon.

Senate Bill 184, Ohio’s “Castle Doctrine” legislation, recently passed out of the State Senate by a vote of 25 to 7. This legislation now heads to the governor for his signature.

A Georgia gun dealer facing a lawsuit by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided not to participate in jury selection, which sends the case directly to a federal appeals court and out of U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s court.