Gun Bill

Bipartisan - yet controversial - gun bill among final batch headed to Scott's desk

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:20:54 GMT

Source: jacksonville.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
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NV Governor Snubs NYC Mayor’s Threats, Vetoes Anti-Gun Bill

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:45:03 GMT

Source: www.realistnews.net --- Monday, June 17, 2013
June 15, 2013 Last week, the Nevada legislature passed a radical Gun Bill which the governor pledged to veto. In spite of interference and threats from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group, Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed the Bill as promised. http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.co...Bill/47548 American's not planning on having what happened to British citizens happen to them, and the politicians for the people are making themselves known. http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-sandy-...t=Gun+laws Friendship/Love/Respect for all living things... ...

California: More Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled to be Heard Next Week and Two Anti-Gun Bill

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:32:01 GMT

Source: www.gunandgame.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
Time is running out! *The following bills are scheduled to be heard on Tuesday, June 18, in the Senate Public Safety Committee.* Please call AND e-mail members of the Senate Public Safety Committee and respectfully urge them to OPPOSE AB 180 and AB 231.* These onerous and misguided bills will do nothing to reduce violent crime and will only turn currently law-abiding citizens into criminals should they be enacted.* You cannot let that happen!* Please forward this alert to family, friends and sportsmen throughout California because it is going to take a united effort to stop this egregious and deeply flawed legislation.* Contact information for the members of the Senate Public Safety Committee is provided below. More... ...

State Sen. Buck Newton says his gun bill would eliminate paper purchase permits...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:25:22 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Saturday, June 15, 2013
State Sen. Buck Newton says his Gun Bill would eliminate paper purchase permits good for five years, not the background checks that prevent criminals from buying guns. Read our story at http://bit.ly/13OEOwR and tell us what you think. -Corey Friedman ...

Nevada’s Anti-Gun Bill Vetoed

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:10:13 GMT

Source: tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org --- Saturday, June 15, 2013
With a hat tip to Wake Up America , we have this bit of good news: Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval Vetoes NV Senate Gun Control Bill, Cites Erosion Of Second Amendment Rights Thanks to all who worked and called to see this happen. ...

Unpopular Congress musters one gun bill (for conspiracy paranoids)

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:05:56 GMT

Source: data.msnbc.msn.com --- Friday, June 14, 2013
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NJ Democrats Scrap Anti-Gun Bill Vote Due To Lack of Support

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:59:32 GMT

Source: pjmedia.com --- Friday, June 14, 2013
As former resident of the Garden State, it doesn’t surprise me that New Jersey Democrats fumbled their own Bill. Right now, they’re crafting a Gun control Bill that is being championed as a model for the nation. The Bill (S2723) would encode a firearm owner’s ID on their driver’s license, establish a system of instant background checks, and force Gun owners to show that they’ve received the proper training. There’s only one problem. They didn’t have enough votes . Dave Urbanski at the Blaze wrote on June 14 about the legislative kerfuffle. The author of the Bill, state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat, calls the legislation a “national model,” says NJ.com. And while it passed the state Senate, a political adversary of Sweeney’s stood in its way — Assemblyman Joseph Cryan (D-Union), who abstained from voting on the measure in the Assembly’s Law and Public Safety committee. Cryan’s lack of support was critical, leaving the Bill without enough votes to advance. Apparently seeing the fallout ahead, the committee’s chairman — Charles Mainor (D-Hudson) — stopped the vote and called a recess, briefly conferring with abstainer Cryan. When the committee resumed, the intention was to move to another Bill. But another member of the committee objected, saying rules prohibited stopping the vote. Here’s the language from Assembly rules: Cryan worried about the cost of the new law. He said, “I abstained based on cost concerns…I al ...

Dead: Sen. Patrick’s school gun bill, Alive: Villalba’s school marshals bill

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:23:53 GMT

Source: trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com --- Friday, June 14, 2013
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After gun bills defeat, its Democrats, not Republicans, paying the political price

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:02:26 GMT

Source: www.thepartisanpatriot.com --- Friday, June 14, 2013
When Congress in April defeated an effort to strengthen the national background-check system for Gun sales, it was mostly on the strength of Republican opposition. Less than two months later, proponents of stricter Gun laws have decided that a small number of Democrats will make more productive targets. In the Senate, all but four Republicans opposed the background-check measure. They have emerged mostly unscathed by the various campaigns advocating for stricter Gun laws in the wake of the December attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 schoolchildren and teachers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...459_story.html ...

Legislators manipulating system to get gun bill passed

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:10:00 GMT

Source: www.app.com --- Friday, June 14, 2013
New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney knows no lows when it comes to playing dirty politics. And once again, he is about to prove it by manipulating the Assembly committees in order to get his centerpiece Gun Bill passed. ...

Gun Bill Shot Down

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:00:00 GMT

Source: www.knpr.org --- Friday, June 14, 2013
" GUEST Mark Glaze , Director, Mayors Against Illegal Guns Governor Brian Sandoval vetoed a Bill that would have required background checks for all private sales of firearms. The move was not unexpected. Mark Glaze, the leader of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, told us why he will continue to work for more states to adopt background checks: “People need to be made aware of the implications of this veto. They need to be made further aware of how effective the background check system has been at the federal level. How much states who have closed this loophole have seen crime decrease. About 40-50 percent fewer suicides, 17 percent fewer aggravated assaults with guns, about 50 percent less Gun trafficking. Closing this loophole works. It doesn’t do any damage to the second amendment. There’s really no reason to not adopt it, other than political reasons, and I think those are what motivated the governor.” Content created by News 88.9 KNPR" ...

The Nevada Governor vetoed the Anti-Gun bill

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:14:56 GMT

Source: www.usacarry.com --- Thursday, June 13, 2013
The Nevada Governor vetoed the Anti-Gun Bill. Sandoval vetoes universal background checks legislation - Las Vegas MyNews3 - KSNV Regards, Cnon ...

Omnibus gun bill passes Senate

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:24 GMT

Source: www.wral.com --- Thursday, June 13, 2013
The measure would allow concealed handgun permit holders to bring their weapons more places and hides records of permit holders from public view. The Bill now returns to the House. ...

Nevada: Governor Vetoes New York-Style Gun Control Bill and Signs Pro-Gun Bill into Law

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Source: www.nraila.org --- Thursday, June 13, 2013
Today, Governor Brian Sandoval (R) vetoed Senate Bill 221. SB 221 is misguided Gun control legislation being forced on law-abiding citizens of Nevada by extremist New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his national anti-Gun organization, “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” (MAIG). ...

Misinformation and Hysteria on Gun Bill HB 937, Amend Various Firearm Laws

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:36:43 GMT

Source: www.civitasreview.com --- Thursday, June 13, 2013
In the wake of the Gun control hysteria that swept the nation this year, finally there is some good news. Earlier this month, the state House passed HB 937 , which would allow lawful concealed carriers to carry in places previously barred, including greenways, restaurants that serve alcohol, and locked vehicles on college campuses. Today, an amended version of HB 937 is expected to pass in the Senate. Not surprisingly, this amended Bill has renewed the ire of North Carolina progressives. The News and Observer ’s headline screams: “NC Bill would do away with handgun permits.” It’s a misleading title, since handguns in North Carolina are not registered, and there is no permit required to own a weapon. Instead, North Carolina requires citizens to purchase a permit, in order to then purchase a handgun. North Carolina is one of only 12 states with such a statute. We have the dubious distinction of being one of the most restrictive states in the country in this regard: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii, and Illinois are some of the other states that require a permit to purchase a handgun. Do pistol purchase permits make us safer? Gun control advocates seem to think so. But as Paul Valone, president of Grass Roots North Carolina , pointed out, pistol purchase permits are actually less effective than ordinary background checks for their intended purpose. A Charlotte Observer article noted : “…North Carolina lets a permit substitu ...

Sunlight Reporting Group: Will Bloomberg's wrath hurt senators who opposed gun bill?

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:15:06 GMT

Source: sunlightfoundation.com --- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Alaska Sen. Mark Begich Billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg is asking prominent Democratic donors in New York, a key source of funds for candidates across the country, to stop contributing to the four Democratic senators who voted to block a Bill that would have strengthened background checks for Gun buyers, the New York Times reported . So it's worth looking at how reliant the senators are on New York funders. Donors from Empire State have been responsible for 7.5 percent of the money funding the federal campaigns of Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Mark Begich, D-Alaska. In all, New Yorkers gave $3.4 million to their campaigns, according to an analysis of data in Influence Explorer . Pryor and Begich are up for reelection in 2014, Baucus is retiring at the end of his term and Heitkamp does not face voters until 2018. Read all about it ...

Sheriff: Gun bill 'fatally flawed'

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:53:11 GMT

Source: www.qconline.com --- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) — The sheriff of Illinois' most populous county believes a proposed concealed weapons law is "fatally flawed" because it all but guarantees that people who should ...

Will Bloomberg's wrath hurt senators who opposed gun bill?

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:43:50 GMT

Source: reporting.sunlightfoundation.com --- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Alaska Sen. Mark Begich Billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg is asking prominent Democratic donors in New York, a key source of funds for candidates across the country, to stop contributing to the four Democratic senators who voted to block a Bill that would have strengthened background checks for Gun buyers, the New York Times reported . So it's worth looking at how reliant the senators are on New York funders. Donors from hthe Empire State have been responsible for 7.5 percent of the money funding the federal campaigns of Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Mark Begich, D-Alaska. In all, New Yorkers gave $3.4 million to their campaigns, according to an analysis of data in Influence Explorer . Pryor and Begich are up for reelection in 2014, Baucus is retiring at the end of his term and Heitkamp does not face voters until 2018. Read all about it ...

Bloomberg Targets 4 Democrats Who Joined Gun Bill Filibuster

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:53:13 GMT

Source: www.thecrimereport.org --- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
In a sharp escalation in the battle over Gun control, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday will send a personal letter to hundreds of the biggest Democratic donors in New York urging them to cut off contributions to the four Democratic senators who helped block a Bill in April that would have strengthened background checks on Gun purchasers, reports the New York Times. The move could inflame tensions between Bloomberg and Democratic Senate leaders, who have privately told City Hall that the attacks can serve only to empower a Republican majority openly hostile to Bloomberg’s priorities. No state is more essential to the Democratic party’s fund-raising: Sitting Democratic senators and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised $30.4 million from New York donors in 2012, more than in any other state. The four Democratic senators who sided with Republicans filibustering the background check Bill — Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska and Heid Heitkamp of North Dakota — have raised more than $2.2 million from New York. ...

Governor Flooded With Calls On Gun Bill

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:33:13 GMT

Source: lasvegas.cbslocal.com --- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
(Carson City, NV) – Nevadans are very vocal when it comes to their opinions on a recent Gun Bill passed by the legislature. Thousands of calls have flooded Governor Brian Sandoval’s office about a Bill to expand background checks for private Gun buyers. Anyone obtaining guns in a private transaction would be required to visit a licensed Gun dealer for a background check. Failure to do so could result in a gross misdemeanor charge. They would also be barred from possessing guns for two years. According to the “Las Vegas Sun”, more than 100,000 calls have been recorded, with 44,000 on Monday alone. The Governor’s office reports most callers are opposed to the Bill, which Sandoval has vowed to veto. ...