Handguns

A bill that is working its way through the South Carolina state legislature could eliminate concealed weapons permit requirements and cost the state millions of dollars in lost permit fees.

Originally, the ATF – using their “Project Gunrunner” – set out to show just how many firearms were being bought in the United States and smuggled into Mexico. But the numbers didn’t add up quite the way the ATF wanted them to, so … they made up their own.

Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America tells why Andrew Traver, Obama’s nomination to head up the ATF, represents a serious threat to gun ownership.

Swiss voters have rejected a plan that would have greatly restricted firearms ownership.

Since the Tucson tragedy, anti-gun Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has been hovering like a vulture, waiting to pick the bones of the victims for political advantage.

On a 9 to 3 vote, the City Council in Clarksville, Tennessee, recently lifted a ban on handguns in most of that city’s parks.

A report just released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), “Study on the Importability of Certain Shotguns,” has proposed...

Obama intentionally did not mention gun control in his State of the Union, but aides say that in the next two weeks the administration will unveil a campaign to get Congress to toughen existing laws.

In California, “A Fresno County Superior Court judge has blocked a pending state law that would have required Californians to provide a thumbprint and photo identification when buying handgun ammunition,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that state colleges and universities can ban firearms, even those carried by people with concealed carry permits, from campus buildings and campus events.

The fiercest gun-control advocate in Congress released the text of a bill she plans to introduce next week that would outlaw so-called "high-capacity magazines" like the one a gunman used to shoot 20 people in a matter of seconds in Arizona this weekend.

In January, a federal lawsuit was filed in South Dakota challenging a state law which prohibits non-US citizens from obtaining a concealed carry permit.

Democratic Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of New York plans to introduce legislation in the coming days that would limit access to the type of weaponry used to gun down Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and 19 other people.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has proposed that it be given emergency authority for six months, beginning January 5, to require about 8,500 firearms dealers along the border with Mexico “to alert authorities when they sell within five consecutive business days two or more semiautomatic rifles greater than .22 caliber with detachable magazines.”

The media is still blaming American gun owners for Mexico's crime problem.