Legislation & Regulation

New MS AG opinion on municipalities regulating carry of guns

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There is a new Mississippi AG’s opinion on municipalities regulating carry of guns. Read it carefully. He’s crawfishing on some previous opinions. Most interesting is the notion that there are places he (and state law) says you can CCW with the enhanced permit, but cannot open carry, in spite of the state constitution’s prohibition of restrictions of your right to […]

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More Federal Antics: DEA, ATF and FDIC

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News headlines this week revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration “abandoned an internal proposal” to use surveillance cameras for photographing vehicle license plates near gun shows in the US to investigate “gun trafficking.” The automated license plate scanners take pictures of every vehicle that passes their field of view and record the information in a database that can be used

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Federal Legislation: Knives, Concealed Carry, EPA Guns & DC CCW

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US Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) has filed the Knife Owners Protection Act (KOPA), HR 419, in the 2015 session of Congress. KOPA would extend to knives the protections afforded to firearm owners in the Firearms Owners Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986. If a person may legally own a knife where he started and ended his travel, he would be protected

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1 pro-gun and 3 anti-gun bills in Congress

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US Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) introduced H.R. 131, a bill that would more comprehensively address the legal interstate transportation of firearms and ammunition for law-abiding gun owners. Current federal law (Firearm Owners Protection Act) guarantees the right of law-abiding persons to transport (unloaded in a locked case, not carry) firearms between two interstate locations where they have a legal right

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Pennsylvania’s preemption law producing change

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Barely a week after taking effect, a state preemption law that makes it easier for gun-rights groups to challenge illegal local firearms measures in court is already effecting change: Nearly two dozen Pennsylvania municipalities have decided to scrap their “potentially problematic” (i.e., illegal) ordinances rather than face litigation. Four pro-gun groups and several residents put nearly 100 Pennsylvania municipalities on

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Federal Legislation: Safe Students Act & gun violence task force

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Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has introduced H.R. 86, the Safe Students Act, which would repeal the unconstitutional Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. Original Cosponsors include: Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC). In the US House of Representatives, now controlled by the Republicans, there is a “House Gun Violence

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