Handguns

12/27/09 Gun Rights: Arms-control bureaucrats at the United Nations and dozens of allied NGOs have been busy for two decades talking and negotiating among themselves to produce an international treaty regulating the sale of small arms. A U.N. resolution adopted in October calls upon member nations to negotiate the matter and finish writing a treaty by 2012. The United States voted for the resolution, which was adopted almost unanimously.

12/26/09 Gun Rights: Alaska State Rep. Kelly says federal rules should only apply to firearms sold across state borders.

12/28/09 Gun Rights: Introduced by Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-43, Marietta), HB 873 would have the effect of repealing Article 4, relating to dangerous instrumentalities and practices, in its entirety. This would mean that there would no longer be Georgia laws against carrying a pistol without a license, carrying a concealed weapon, and carrying a deadly weapon to a public gathering.

12/23/09 Gun Rights: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his personal anti-gun crusade have cost his constituents some big money.

Gun rights groups are divided in Iowa on proposals to lift restrictions on concealed carry. Iowa Gun Owners is pushing for Vermont-style legislation, in which no permit would be required to carry.

12/18/09 Gun Rights: Gun prohibitionists are using the murder of a Seattle police officer, and a couple of other slayings, to launch a new effort to ban the sale of semiautomatic firearms in Washington State, and require current owners to register their firearms.

Fort Hood officials announced Thursday a new command policy regarding registration requirements for privately-owned firearms was signed into effect Tuesday by Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, III Corps and Fort Hood commander.

Police say they received a call from a homeowner around 7 p.m. Friday. He told police someone tried to break into his house and he shot at them.

A would-be robber is shot to death by a tire store owner in north Houston, and officers are searching for three suspects who got away.

One man, Edward Hamilton, 24, of Brooklyn, produced a handgun and the store owner retrieved his own gun from behind a display case, according to police.

A spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office says a man who attempted to rob a Marrero couple at gunpoint died after 1 of the robbery victims shot him.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed Beretta U.S.A. and the firearms industry another victory by rejecting the Brady Center's appeal of Adames v. Beretta U.S.A. Corporation challenging the constitutionality of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).