Two gun regulation bills received final approval by the Louisiana House on Tuesday. A third measure, to penalize the publication of concealed handgun permit information, will head to conference committee after its sponsor rejected Senate amendments to the bill.

Rekindling the Second Amendment fervor of the legislative session that ended Monday, Rep. Steve Toth filed the first gun bill of the special session.

  The School Security Act, House Bill 6, was signed into law by Governor Bill Haslam (R) on May 13.  Sponsored by state Representative Eric Watson (R-22), HB 6 provides more protection for children and staff during school hours.  HB 6 was amended multiple times during this legislative session and was finally agreed upon by the Tennessee House and Senate to allow a person employed or assigned to a Local Education Agency to possess and carry a firearm on the grounds of that school if they are current or former law enforcement.  

This week, in another attempt to skirt the United States Court of Appeals ruling to institute Right to Carry in Illinois, anti-gun state Senators are racing to force votes on severely flawed House Bill 183 with Amendment 4.  This faulty concealed carry legislation does not have total firearms preemption safeguards, and instead attempts to exempt certain municipalities from any “shall-issue” mandate and allow individual towns to expand the list of places statewide that are off-limits to anyone carrying a concealed firearm for self-defense.

This Thursday, May 30, the New Jersey Senate is scheduled to vote on multiple dangerous gun control bills.  However, the state Senate has failed to use this opportunity to make easy fixes to longstanding issues that have plagued law-abiding gun owners in the Garden State.  Among the fixes desperately needed are clarification of current law to prevent law-abiding gun owners from being turned into criminals over minor technical transportation violations; enforcement of the thirty-day permit issuance deadline already required by law but ignored by permitting authorities; and extension of handgun permits to one year.  Anti-gun extremists in the state legislature are so bent on criminalizing law-abiding gun owners that they have halted these reasonable, common-sense proposals.

Having lost a federal court battle over restrictions on guns in Wilmington public housing, plaintiffs backed by the National Rifle Association have asked an appeals court to send the matter back to Delaware courts.

Gays and guns seem as likely to go together as Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey. As a culture, even under attack, we are a peaceful lot you catch more bees with honey, right?"Wrong," says Gwendolyn Patton of Pink Pistols, a group that advocates gun ownership for the LGBT community. With taglines like "pick on someone your own caliber," and "armed gays don't get bashed," Patton says Pink Pistols changes the perception that gay people are easy victims. "We teach queers to shoot, and then we teach the rest of the world we've done it," Patton told WBEZ91.5, a public radio station in Chicago. "Because then they may think twice about using (LGBT people) as a target."

The gun control battle has shifted from Capitol Hill to the states, where both sides have gone to court to challenge laws passed in the wake of December's school shooting in Connecticut.

Texas lawmakers have sent to Gov. Rick Perry a bill that allows concealed handgun license holders to carry a revolver or semi automatic pistol, regardless of what they trained with on the shooting range.

A Democratic campaign office here usually would be quiet this time of year, a few weeks after the state's legislature wrapped up work and lawmakers headed off to summer vacations.But even though it's not an election year, the office is in full campaign mode, with volunteers working the phones and reviewing maps in anticipation of a new front of modern campaigning the recall phase.

The outlook for a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons prompted by the Newtown, Conn., school shooting appears to be dimming in Rhode Island as lawmakers enter the final weeks of their annual session.

Today, Senate Bill 2193 passed the Illinois House of Representatives with House Amendments 1 and 2 in a vote of 85-30.  This legislation was introduced to comply with a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruling on December 11, 2012 that invalidated Illinois’ total ban on carrying firearms for self-defense.

If you aren't following the NRA on Facebook or Twitter, you should be! We are very happy to report that, thanks to your on-going support, NRA's Facebook page has exploded in popularity and currently boasts over 2,390,000 "likes"!

Yesterday, the state House of Representatives passed legislation that would partially repeal the state ban on Sunday hunting.  House Bill 5412, introduced by state Representative John Shaban (R-135), would allow deer hunting on Sundays with a bow and arrow on private lands with written permission of the landowner.  HB 5412 passed by a 107-19 vote.

In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a petition filed by a number of groups (led by the radical anti-gun, anti-hunting environmental group Center for Biological Diversity) to ban the use of lead ammunition.  The 2010 denial was based on the simple fact that the EPA does not have the legal authority under the Toxic Substance Control Act to ban or regulate ammunition.

More than a decade ago, John Lott’s best-selling book More Guns, Less Crime shattered conventional wisdom about gun control, and changed the academic debate among criminologists and economists from how much gun ownership caused crime to increase, to how much it caused crime to decrease.

This weekend, our country will celebrate Memorial Day.  We'll cook out, relax, and visit with friends and family.  But this holiday weekend is about more than barbeques, swimming pools, and family get-togethers.  As we celebrate the Memorial Day weekend, let us keep in mind what we are "celebrating" -- those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that Americans, and people around the world, would be able to reap the benefits of freedom.

Yesterday, the state House of Representatives passed legislation that would partially repeal the state ban on Sunday hunting.  House Bill 5412, introduced by state Representative John Shaban (R-135), would allow deer hunting on Sundays with a bow and arrow on private lands with written permission of the landowner.  HB 5412 passed by a 107-19 vote.

Yesterday, the state Senate voted to table the Shurtleff Criminal Protection Bill by a 19-5 vote.  After passage of House Bill 135 by a 189-184 vote in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, the state Senate was the last line of defense to stop this bill from being sent to Governor Maggie Hassan for her signature.