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3 Mar 2009, 4:37 am
Petersburg Times, which urged Florida's legislature to roll back the 2006 ban on public scrutiny of handgun permits under the headline 'Guess which ones carry guns.' "   "Currently, 28 states make gun permits confidential, 12 states treat them as open public records and 10 states generally do not grant permits to carry concealed weapons, the NRA says. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 6:03 am
., here), so I'll begin with a simple recap: A group of students calling themselves Take Back NYU barricaded themselves inside the Kimmel Center and issued demands; the university threatened to suspend the students; and thus the takeover just about ended. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 2:48 pm
The briefs by the NRA and others seeking to curb state and local controls on guns are studied efforts to get around the Supreme Court’s 1886 Presser decision. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 2:45 am
Well, for one thing, because a single individual or small group lacks the "wisdom of crowds. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 3:33 am
She earned the NRA's top rating last year and backed a repeal of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban-even submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of pro-gun groups. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 2:50 am
Now that the court has said guns can't be banned entirely, the NRA can't cast milder restrictions on gun ownership, such as safe-storage laws, as steps toward government taking people's guns away. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 1:00 pm
We're concerned that there is going to be an increase in gun- related accidents in parks and opportunistic poaching.' The NRA lobbied hard for the change to the gun regulations, which it said were inconsistent and unclear. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 4:05 am
If we were seeing similar behavior by the NRA on voter registration, I'll bet it would be getting a lot more attention. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 3:12 pm
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court in June carved out a right to individual gun ownership, ruling that the Second Amendment allows citizens to keep guns in their homes for self-defense.The NRA and other analysts say most laws allowing gun possession have existed for years and would not likely account for a recent spike in self-defense killings.Instead, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president and chief executive officer, says the Sept. 11 attacks and the… [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 8:26 am
I wasn't a Hillary devotee, as you know, but I am in the demographic group that locked onto her emotionally. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 4:48 pm
Peck said he anticipates Nevadans will come to his group to protect their gun rights. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 5:06 am
Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan struck down two of the laws, citing them as unconstitutional, however ruled that groups such as the NRA, local gun-owners, and other plaintiffs, had no standing to challenge the remaining three, which included the requirement to report lost or stolen firearms. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 3:03 pm
-based groups, not independent assessors of local opinion. [read post]
5 Jul 2008, 10:43 pm
When contacted, NRA spokespersons were delighted at this requirement and said membership has quadrupled since the announcement. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 2:31 pm
It's even funnier how everybody's focusing on the NRA and other conservative groups funding Heller and now these other lawsuits in San Francisco and Chicago. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 2:16 pm
But nonetheless, all nine Justices specifically said the right is individual, and thus rejected the "collective right" position on the Second Amendment, a position that's been the mainstay of gun-control groups, newspaper editorialists, and lower federal courts for decades, and one that was presented by those adherents as so obviously correct that those arguing for an individual right were called "frauds" and shills for the NRA. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 2:30 pm
" Maura Dolan has an article headlined "Gun advocates' other weapon: lawsuits; On the heels of the Supreme Court ruling, the NRA and other groups prepare to challenge gun laws in California and other states. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 4:53 am
WHAT'S COMING POST-HELLER: "On the heels of the Supreme Court ruling, the NRA and other groups prepare to challenge gun laws in California and other states. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 1:20 pm
The NRA, Citizens' Defense League, Sons of Confederate Veterans? [read post]