Handguns

A masked suspect was shot and killed outside an Altamonte Springs home.

On Monday, anti-gun New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg announced the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009 a bill that would give unprecedented authority to the Attorney General to prohibit someone from exercising his or her Second Amendment rights based on nothing more than mere suspicion.

New Jersey Democrat senator Frank R. Lautenberg plans to introduce legislation designed to cancel the Second Amendment rights of well over a million U.S. citizens this coming week, according to the New York Times

During the war for our independence, only approximately a third of the colonists supported the independence cause. Another third didn't care one way or the other and the last third wanted to remain under British rule. Which are you?

On June 11, 2009, attorneys general from 23 states faxed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, in which they voiced their opposition to any new Assault Weapons Ban (AWB). This, following Holder's comments earlier this year that he and the Obama Administration had hoped to reinstate some form of the 1994 AWB.

NRA-ILA has recently received several calls from NRA members in border states who have been visited or called by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In some cases, agents have asked to enter these people's homes, and requested serial numbers of all firearms the members possess.

The GAO gun trafficking report admits its findings are incomplete, but they intend to draw conclusions anyway. Why? So they can gin up the hysteria to enact complete registration and end private sales of firearms.

Law-enforcement officials are working to quash a proposal that would allow gun owners in Arizona to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, newly-elected president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, will be using his new position to push an anti-gun agenda at a White House meeting planned later this summer, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms warned today.

A concealed carry permit holder chased down, detained and stopped two would-be robbers from taking his stuff.

The bill to close public access to records identifying Tennessee's 220,000-plus handgun-carry permit holders fell three votes short of winning approval in the state Senate on Wednesday night.

And you could be forced to spend $13,000 of your own money toward this effort!

Gary Marbut isn't aiming to eliminate federal gun laws. He just wants to make them much less relevant.

On June 11, 23 state attorney generals signed and sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder advising him that they are opposed to renewal of the 1994 Clinton administration's ban on semiautomatic firearms, erroneously dubbed assault weapons by proponents of the ban.

For years, liberty purists and gun owners have asked why we don't have Knife bans and why all the hooplah is only about guns. Well, surprise, surprise, they're likely coming for the knives now.

Currently, information about who has a concealed carry permit in Oregon is considered a public record. A bill to make that information confidential was passed by the Oregon House in May. Recently, though, the same bill did not receive a vote by the Oregon Senate, effectively killing it for this legislative session.