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It wasn’t abortion-related memos or military recruiters at Harvard that sank Elena Kagan with Sen. Ben Nelson. It was guns. “She’s already made statements ... and has written things that would show a bias against the Second Amendment,” Nelson told The World-Herald.

Sen. Joe Griffo, R Rome, wants the state to stop its practice of handing out the entire state database of handgun permits in response to Freedom of Information Law requests recently the subject of controversy due to the appearance of a website that offers the information.

A Nevada lawmaker wants to make it harder for the public to determine who is packing heat. Assemblyman Don Gustavson, R Sparks, asked the Legislative Counsel Bureau to draft a bill for the 2011 legislative session that would make personal information related to concealed carry permits confidential.

Beginning August 5 and running through the course of the fair on August 15, your NRA-ILA staff and volunteers will be manning booth #1306 in the Expo Center building. Staff will be providing free NRA-ILA materials, offering memberships, answering questions and signing up volunteers to assist with the upcoming elections. We will also have information available on current federal issues and election activity as well as state issues and legislative session summaries.

The National Rifle Association is stepping up it's campaign to shoot down the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan. In a call to supporters to urge senators to vote no, the NRA compares Kagan to President Obama's last court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, who seemed to back the Second Amendment in confirmation hearings but who later voted against it in a test case.

Lead, for centuries the core ingredient of ammunition, is now coming under attack itself. As the American military begins to embrace "green bullets," environmental groups are pushing state and federal officials to ban the use of lead in hunters' guns and fishermen's tackle.

Town officials in Nottingham reviewed a gun policy Monday night that would allow town employees to bring guns to work. In June, the board of selectmen unanimously voted to undo a 10 year old policy that prevented town employees, except police officers, from having a gun inside town offices.

The powerful Home Affairs Select Committee has announced it will investigate firearms rules following the June 2 killings. Prime Minister David Cameron had previously warned against a “knee-jerk reaction” and said Britain’s gun control legislation was among the tightest in the world.

Imagine this news headline: "School shooter apologizes -- not for killing -- but for violating CU campus gun ban." Preposterous, right? Not to some members of the University of Colorado Boulder faculty.

A new law is on the books in Arizona. Since Thursday, anyone 21 years or older who is legally qualified to own a firearm may carry one without a Concealed to Carry permit.

Capt. Kenny Sanders' phone hasn't stopped ringing since Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed the "gun in church" bill into law July 6. House Bill 1272, sponsored by Rep. Henry Burns, allows churches or other religious institutions to authorize people with concealed weapons permits and who have passed the required training to bring weapons into houses of worship as part of a security force.

The number of people licensed to teach Utah's concealed weapons courses is growing. As of July, Utah had certified more than 1,100 instructors for its concealed carry program. That's up from 926 at the end of last year and 825 two years ago.

Standing amid an array of foreign rifles and local shotguns at one of the Philippines' largest shopping malls, firearms aficionados celebrated the rise of the nation's new president. Benigno Aquino, who took office on June 30, is an avid sports shooter and clips on YouTube show him using a semi automatic pistol with great skill at a target shooting competition.

On Tuesday, July 20, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 to send Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination on to the full Senate for a vote.

This week, by a margin of 307-113, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to amend the federal definition of “household goods” to protect firearms from creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.