The Washington Post reported this week that Shannon Watts, founder of the Moms Demand Action gun control group, is retiring. Watts has become a hero to the gun prohibition movement, and the Moms group became part of anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s gun control empire. However, she was also seen as an enemy of the Second […]
Federal Lawsuit Looms After IL Gov. Signs Gun Ban
Almost immediately after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday banning the sale or possession of semiautomatic firearms—so-called “assault weapons”—Second Amendment advocates promised to quickly challenge the new law in federal court. According to Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA), his group is already raising funds to fight the legal […]
WA State Preemption Law Under Attack from 15 Democrats
Fifteen Washington State Democrat members of the state House of Representatives wasted no time launching an anticipated effort to repeal the Evergreen State’s nearly-40-year-old model preemption law, threatening a system of gun law uniformity that has been upheld in the state courts more than once. And that appears to be the problem, as the opening […]
CCRKBA Tells Lawmakers: ‘Rights Not Subject to Opinion Polls’
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has a message for state lawmakers, members of Congress and the media: Second Amendment rights are not subject to public opinion polls, especially when such surveys are used to justify proposed bans on certain types of firearms. The right to keep and bear arms […]
Judge Grants TRO Against New Jersey Gun Law
A federal judge in Camden, N.J. has granted a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the state’s new gun law in a case brought by several gun rights groups including the Second Amendment Foundation. SAF is joined in the case by the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, the New Jersey […]
Illinois House Passes Semi-Auto Ban 64-43
The Illinois House of Representatives early Friday morning passed a bill banning so-called “assault weapons” which would prohibit the manufacture, sale or possession of such firearms. A report at WLS, the ABC affiliate in Chicago, mischaracterized the targeted firearms as “high-powered weapons” and “large-capacity” magazines. Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker was on the House floor for […]
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