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URGENT: Bill to Repeal Part of Anti-Gun SB 707 Up in Committee
Tuesday, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will be taking up AB 2340, authored by Assemblymember James Gallagher (R-Nicolaus), which will allow someone with a concealed carry permit AND a domestic violence restraining order to carry a firearm on school grounds.
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Concealed Carry Permits at Risk; Fix AB 2510
Given that there are nearly 500 issuing authorities, if all of them were to make up their own permit, it would put concealed carry license holders and law enforcement in danger, not only in California--but in those states that honor our licenses as well.
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ALERT: Anti-Gun Bill Pulled, Will Be Heard Again
The bill, authored by Senator Ben Allen (D-Redondo Beach) will make non-violent firearms related crimes “continuing offenses.” These offenses involve unlawful self-importation or transfers of firearms. These crimes need not have any criminal intent, nor is there a victim involved. These victimless crimes are the act of import or transfer, not possession.
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CA Bill to Treat Gun Owners like Violent Felons is Up in Committee
If SB 1037 were to become law, the act of not filling out the form correctly or failing to send in $19 would be prosecutable for the remainder of the person's natural life.
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USA Today: Gabrielle Giffords' Gun Control Group Merges with Calif. Group
“We are thrilled to be joining forces with our longtime partners at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence,” Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, said in a statement. “By coming together we can do more to take on the gun lobby, deliver even more victories for common sense, and save lives.”
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Fresno Bee: Kingsburg School District could Allow Guns on High School Campus
The school board is considering approving a policy that would allow some employees to possess firearms and ammunition on school grounds. Under the policy, Superintendent Randy Morris would designate which employees with concealed weapon permits can bring their guns to school.
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Breitbart:Bill Makes ‘Victimless’ Firearms Crime Punishable Throughout Lifetime
[California] gun owners are subject to a dizzying array of law at every level of government, and SB 1037 sets a history-making precedent that gun owners should be haunted for life for an act that involved perhaps nothing more than ignorance or forgetfulness.
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This Bill Will Wipe Out ALL Gun Dealers in California
Adding to the Orwellian-ness, gun dealers will have to spend thousands of dollars on storing the high-quality data for up to 10 years on-site, turning each gun store that can afford it into a high capacity hard drive that most tech firms would be jealous of.
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Townhall: Pro-Gun CPAC Panel Bashes CNN ‘Gun Control Infomercial’
Another panelist, Sheriff David Clarke, a well-known gun rights activist, began his remarks by holding up the Constitution. This document, he said, “means everything to me and it should mean everything to you.”
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KCRA: Folsom, Rancho Cordova Schools Allow Select Staff to Carry Guns
“The safety of our students, staff, and families is our number one priority, and our narrow practice of allowing select, law-abiding employees to securely store and access a firearm in the event of an emergency is a legal and appropriate safety measure given the unfortunate reality of violence in our society today,” Bettencourt said.
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CA Assembly Public Safety to Vote on AB 1695: A Waste of Gun Owner Money
The senseless redundancy of AB 1695 is many-fold. Many of the laws cited in the notice content are, in fact, the same laws that the purchaser is complying with by conducting a lawful firearm transfer at a licensed dealer.Those same laws are required to be posted in plain view at the point of sale.
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Privacy Rights Are Gun Rights
As a civil rights organization that represents the interests of some of the most regulated, maligned and legislated classes of people (YOU, the everyday law-abiding gun owner), it is imperative that our members and supporters have access to their constitutionally guaranteed rights to assembly, speech and privacy without compromise, as all of the inalienable rights are interwoven and dependent upon each other.
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AJC: ‘Campus Carry’ Gun Bill Advances in Georgia Legislature
A bill legalizing firearms on Georgia’s college campuses passed a key Senate panel on Monday, with no changes to where the legislation says college students could be allowed to carry guns.
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Merced Sun Star: Enthusiasts in Atwater Scoff at Proposed Gun Laws
“That’s not where the problems are,” Joey Verna, a gun shop owner, said Thursday. “It’s not the law-abiding people causing the problems.”
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WATCH: FPC Frustrates Legislator's Anti-Gun Agenda and Destroys AB 1673
Not only was Craig successful at totally frustrating the author, he was also successful in convincing the Chair of the committee to postpone the bill for the time being.
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He's Back... Kevin De Leon Introduces Ghost Gun Bill
SB 1407 requires a person who manufactures or assembles a firearm to first apply to the Department of Justice ( DOJ) for permission to build the firearm.
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WSAZ: W.Va. Governor Vetoes Conceal Carry Gun Bill
“I have been listening, and today [Thursday] I stand with you for the safety of the men, women and children who call our state home,” the governor said. “Our law enforcement officers have dedicated their lives to keeping us safe. Now it’s time for us to return the favor and veto HB4145.”
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ALERT: Berkeley Senator Introduces Bill to TAKE Your Magazines
SB 1446 will ban mere possession of ALL standard capacity magazines that can hold over 10 rounds, including those that were permanently modified by the owner and those that were originally factory designed to hold more than 10 rounds.
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Guns.com: California to Pick Up the Reins of Gun Violence Research
“The bill reads as a sole source contract to an anti-gun activist, written by an anti-gun legislator seeking research that supports her predetermined conclusion that guns need to be banned,” Craig DeLuz, legislative and public affairs representative for the California-based Firearms Policy Coalition, told Guns.com in an email.
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Reason: Clarence Thomas Suggests That Permanently Losing Your Gun Rights Is No Small Thing
Thomas noted that Voisine and Armstrong, assuming they’re covered by 18 USC 922, would permanently lose their Second Amendment rights, even though their crimes did not involve guns or any other weapons. Then he posed a hypothetical: Imagine that a publisher commits a misdemeanor by violating a ban on using children in certain kinds of advertising. “Could you suspend that publisher’s right to ever publish again?” he asked.
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Assembly Public Safety Committee Passes 3 of 4 Anti-Gun Bills
Earlier today, the Assembly Public Safety Committee passed AB 1663, AB 1664, and AB 1674 on a party line vote of 5-2, with all Democrats voting "aye" while all Republicans voted "no."
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LA Times: Gun Silencers are Useful, Not Scary
Shocking, considering this was published in the LA Times!
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ABC 10: After San Bernardino, Concealed Gun Requests Skyrocket
In the seven weeks since terrorists killed 14 people in San Bernardino, requests for concealed firearms permits have skyrocketed throughout the Inland Empire, leading to crippling backlogs and massive delays at the public safety agencies that process applications.
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Chicago Sun Times: Gun Sales in Illinois Soaring
Altogether, the Illinois State Police did 418,000 background checks on gun buyers in 2015, compared with 162,000 a decade earlier, records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show. The number of guns sold could be even higher, though: Each of those transactions could have involved more than one firearm.
