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Sac Bee: 'I am not going to stop...until we get these AR-15s off of the streets,' Feinstein says
Sen. Dianne Feinstein told thousands of California Democratic delegates and elected officials Saturday that she will aggressively pursue legislation banning assault rifles in the wake of this month’s Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead, including teenage students.
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Guns.com: Dems Propose ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban, State-Run Gun Registry for Ohio
The proposal, SB 260, backed by state Sens. Mike Skindell and Charleta Tavares, would define an “assault weapon” as a semi-auto firearm with the capacity of accepting 10 or more rounds in the magazine, making it a felony to possess one.
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Yahoo: Florida Shooting Survivor Says CNN Gave Him ‘Scripted’ Questions at Town Hall Event
Colton Haab told Miami’s local WPLG-TV that the network refused to allow him to raise his idea that schools consider employing U.S. military veterans as armed security guards and instead offered him canned questions.
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The Federalist: Gun Control Across The World Only Leads To Acid, Knifings, And Bombings
I wish that I could tell you that gun control worked in England, but there you have to watch out for acid. I wish that I could tell you that I was safe in the Middle East, but there you have to watch out for, well, pretty much everything.
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KCRA: CA Assemblyman Introduces New Bill Expanding Gun Violence Restraining Orders
The Firearms Policy Coalition opposes the current gun violence restraining order, as well as its expansion, because the initial 21-day seizure of firearms does not allow the gun owner due process in court.
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FPC Launches New Federal Push to “Save the Second Amendment”
“The right to keep and bear arms is just as normal and important as any other enshrined in our Bill of Rights,” explained DeLuz. ‘It’s long past time that our laws, regulations, and the judicial system reflected that.”
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Fox News: Colorado State Rep, Columbine Survivor, Pushes to End Gun-Free Zones in Schools
Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, who was a Columbine High School sophomore at the time of the 1999 mass shooting, is pushing legislation that he says would protect students — by getting rid of gun restrictions in schools.
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USA Today: Florida Shooting Rampage Renews Focus on Gun Laws that Allow Courts to Remove Firearms from the Mentally Ill
The Firearms Policy Coalition opposed the bill for threatening to confiscate a person’s legally obtained guns based on hearsay.
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FPC Calls President Trump’s ‘Bump Stock’ Ban “Lawless”
Today’s order makes clear that the Trump Administration will leave FPC and law-abiding gun owners no choice but to seek a judicial remedy.
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Oregon Gun Control Hits the Fastlane Thanks to "Republicans"
It’s no coincidence that HB 4145 is very similar to SB 719, after you’re stripped of your rights without due process because you’re supposedly dangerous, you are still free to roam the streets and cause havoc.
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The Hill: San Francisco proposes banning concealed guns at large events
Supervisor Catherine Stefani told the San Francisco Examiner that she will introduce a measure banning concealed weapons within a 500-foot radius of large events.
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KPIX: California’s Assault Weapon Restrictions Might Have Prevented Florida Shooting
The shooter who killed 17 people at a Florida school on Valentine’s Day allegedly used a legally purchased AR-15.
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USA Today: Why the AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings
A Las Vegas concert. An Orlando nightclub. An elementary school in Newtown, Conn. A Texas church. And now a high school in Parkland, Fla. America's most popular weapon was there for all of them.
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Guns.com: Constitutional Carry Passes First Test in Colorado Senate
A measure that would enable Coloradans to lawfully carry concealed handguns without a permit was approved by a state Senate committee this week.
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Washington Post: No, There Haven’t Been 18 School Shootings in 2018. That Number is Flat Wrong.
Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings.
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FPC Statement Regarding Douglas High School Shooting
Yet, instead of deploying serious and effective safety measures at our schools, the too-common refrain of the anti-gun fetishists is to attack the rights of law-abiding people. America’s legislative buildings, courthouses, airports, and government offices are protected by robust physical security measures, controlled ingress, and weapon detection devices—backstopped, just in case, by law-abiding people with firearms.
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WFTS Tampa: Officer Explains That It Is Legal to Defend Yourself When Being Robbed with a Pellet Gun
“Now the clerk knows when you have a gun shoved in your face you don’t know if it’s a pellet gun or a B.B. gun...” said Lieutenant Ricardo Ubinas with the Tampa Police Department. “It really doesn’t change the dynamics of the robbery. It’s still an armed robbery.”
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CPRC: On “Designated Survivor,” Kiefer Sutherland pushes for universal background checks
In a series of scenes that could have been written by Michael Bloomberg, Designated Survivor keeps making the case for expanded background checks. No intellectual argument or even an emotional argument is provided against the gun control claims, and those opposing the regulations are treated as dishonest.
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Billings Gazette: Wyoming county considers selling guns left in evidence
A southeastern Wyoming county is asking federal authorities if it can solicit bids from gun dealers on about 80 weapons left in evidence that can't be returned to owners.
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Guns.com: LA to offer $1,000 for tips on illegal guns
The Los Angeles City Council voted to set up an anonymous tip line promising to pay $1,000 for those with information about illegal guns in the city.
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Truth About Guns: Congress to Undo Obama Reg Denying Vets Their Gun Rights
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced bipartisan legislation along with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) to restore veterans’ Second Amendment rights.
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Guns.com: NJ advances bill for taxpayer-funded ‘firearm violence’ research
The bill, S 63, would go so far as look at “firearms violence as a form of terrorism” as researchers delve into the subject on both individual and societal levels. The sponsor of the bill, which passed the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee 4-1 this week, says it is needed to take the place of federal research.
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Bearing Arms: One State’s First Test Of ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law Enters Realm Of The Bizarre
The facts in the Ped Mall shooting case weren’t in dispute. Wilson admitted shooting the three men who confronted him on the Ped Mall in the earlier hours of Aug. 27. The prosecution did not dispute that those three men were armed. But in a pre-trial hearing, Judge Paul Miller ruled that whether the SYG law applied in Wilson’s case would only be considered in a post-conviction hearing, if he was convicted.
