An effort to ban automatic weapons in New Mexico was tabled by a 6-3 bipartisan committee vote this week, meaning it is probably dead for the session. Senate Bill 171 would have banned the manufacture, sale, trade or ownership of automatic firearms, died in the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday. According to KRQE News, the […]

Lawmakers in North Carolina are considering gun legislation which includes language to repeal the state’s long-lived requirement for a purchase permit in order for private citizens to buy a handgun. The Washington Examiner is reporting the law is 110 years old, and the measure to erase it—Senate Bill 41—could have a decent shot at passage, […]

Almost as if to telegraph criticism to the Chicago Police Department, an Illinois state representative last month introduced legislation to require grocery stores, gas stations, banks and pawn shops in cities with more than 2 million residents—probably limiting it to Chicago—to hire armed guards during business hours. House Bill 1231, sponsored by Democrat State Rep. […]

The 19-year-old suspect in a triple-slaying in Orlando, Fla. reportedly has a criminal background and, even if he didn’t, he could not have been legally carrying the handgun allegedly used in the crime, which took the lives of a 38-year-old woman, 9-year-old girl and a 24-year-old Spectrum News reporter who was on the job. Reporter […]

Washington State gun rights activists will rally Thursday morning on the Capitol steps in Olympia for what is billed as “Gun Rights Lobby Day,” which will be a timely event as the Senate Ways & Means Committee is scheduled to hold an executive session conference on Senate Bill 5078 on Friday. SB 5078 is the […]