One week to the day after the Washington State Supreme Court okayed Seattle’s so-called “gun violence tax” despite the Evergreen State’s 34-year-old preemption law governing firearms regulation, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that “cities, towns and counties have no right to enact their own gun regulations,” the Arizona Daily Sun is reporting. Thursday’s ruling dealt […]
As Concealed Carry Surges, Reciprocity Opponents Double Down
Tuesday marks the first day that licensed gun owners can carry concealed on community college campuses in Texas, a year after it became legal to carry on four-year university campuses. The timing is important, because the debate over national concealed carry reciprocity is heating up as opponents in the gun prohibition movement double down with […]
Arizona Driver’s License Manual Has Tips for Armed Citizens
Whatever else Arizona might be, it is a state with lots of gun owners and the state Department of Transportation obviously recognizes this and has added some tips on traffic stop etiquette in its Driver License Manual for armed motorists who might get stopped on the highway. The odds of police encounters with legally armed […]
Michigan Closer to Joining ‘Nat’l Trend of Relaxed Gun Laws’
In a close look at gun law reform legislation in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press concluded that the Wolverine State is part of a “national trend” leaning toward the relaxation of firearms regulations, citing the passage by that state’s House of Representatives a bill that will allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed sidearms without a […]
Giffords Again Gabbing About Guns, Announces ‘New Coalition’
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords, who survived a 2011 assassination attempt in Tucson and left Congress to form, with her husband, a gun control group is in Phoenix Thursday to announce “a new bi-partisan coalition” to push for additional gun restrictions. According to KSAZ News, the local Fox affiliate in Phoenix, this new group […]
AZ Senate Closer to Allowing CCW Carry in Some Public Buildings
The Arizona State Senate “gave initial approval” Monday to allowing people with concealed carry permits to be armed inside some public buildings, while opponents raised the traditional arguments against it, according to published reports. The gun law reform legislation still faces a formal Senate vote, however, according to the Associated Press and KNXV/ABC15 News. It […]
