(Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment protects the right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, rejecting a claim by Hawaii officials that the right only applies to guns kept at home. The ruling by a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court…
Boulder County saw an increase in concealed carry permit holders in 2017, and the office said it has already seen an increase again so far in 2018. The increase was just one of the trends noted in the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office annual report for 2017, which was released Thursday. In the report, the sheriff’s office…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The California Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit Thursday that sought to block an unusual law requiring new models of semi-automatic handguns to stamp identifying information on bullet casings when shots are fired to make it easier to solve crimes. The court ruled unanimously that gun rights groups could not overturn…
With lower courts split on the issue, the Florida Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up a question about whether a 2017 change to the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law should apply to older cases. The controversial 2017 change shifted a key burden of proof in “stand your ground” cases — a shift…
The Republican governor of Oklahoma, one of the nation’s reddest states, vetoed a bill late Friday that would have permitted adults to carry firearms without a permit. The move by Gov. Mary Fallin marked a rare defeat in such a conservative state by the National Rifle Association, which strongly backed the measure. The bill is similar to so-called…
A measure that would allow Coloradans to carry a concealed gun without a permit passed the Republican-controlled state Senate on Thursday in a vote along party lines amid a national debate about firearms that has seen President Donald Trump and others in the GOP revisiting their stance on gun control. Senate Bill 97 was sent to the House by a 18-17 tally….
NEW HAVEN — Licensed firearms dealer David Pidgeon is happy to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. “No dealer wants to sell a firearm to someone who shouldn’t have it,” he said. But the owner of Pidgeon’s Gun Shop in New Haven doesn’t think the gun-control bills Gov. Scott…
There is growing evidence that some of America’s financial elite want to create a world in which America’s public policy decisions emanate from corporate boardrooms in Manhattan rather than from citizens and their elected officials. This was demonstrated in recent weeks when both Citigroup and Bank of America announced changes to their corporate guidelines aimed at preventing law-abiding Americans from…
The National Rifle Association praised Nebraska lawmakers for limiting what information about gun owners was accessible under the state’s public-records statutes. Sen. Bruce Bostelman of Brainard introduced a measure (LB902) exempting information obtained by government agencies “regarding firearm registration, possession, sale, or use that is obtained for purposes of an application permitted” from the…
Like it or hate it, the right to keep and bear arms is not going to be repealed. Former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, now retired, gave gun-control advocates false hope recently when he advocated repeal of the Second Amendment. Justice Stevens knows, or should know, that it can’t happen — not because the…
