COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate who had escaped minutes earlier from a county jail in South Carolina was shot and killed by a woman after he kicked in her back door, the local sheriff said. The inmate was still in his orange jail jumpsuit and had grabbed a knife sharpening tool from the woman’s…
In early December, NRA-ILA alerted gun owners to an ongoing dispute between the administration of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the state courts. The governor’s office had advised that it would refuse to comply with lawful court orders to reinstate some Massachusetts residents’ Firearms Identification Cards. Early this week, the Boston Globe reported that the Governor’s office…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A handful of rural counties in New Mexico are passing resolutions saying they will not require their sheriffs to enforce a sweeping slate of gun-control proposals that have gone before state lawmakers. The “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” resolutions are being presented by sheriffs to commissioners in dozens of counties, according to the head…
PIERRE — Legislation allowing people to carry concealed handguns without a permit, sometimes called “Constitutional carry,” is headed to the South Dakota Senate floor for a vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 47 in a 4-3 vote on Thursday morning after spending more than an hour hearing testimony and discussing the issue. The concealed carry bill is…
(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…
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….
WEST VALLEY CITY — About 35 students walked out of Hunter High School Wednesday to support of the Second Amendment and show “there is another side to this story,” said student organizer Collin Thorup. The national school walkout in March in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, may have captured international attention,…
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…
