I wanted to respond to the following comment that I received on my earlier post on the passage of what is referred to as the “Parking Lot Law” in Arizona.
Here was the comment of one of my readers…
“OK I read the law and I am shocked. Are we in city that has a high [...]

I have received a lot of questions regarding the status of a proposed bill currently pending in the US House of Representatives known as HR 45, or the Blair Holt Act.  In the email currently circulating around the web, the bill is said to include language that would make it illegal to own any firearm [...]

Packing for school: Guns on campus one year later
Ann Work Times Record News
Thursday, August 6, 2009
WICHITA FALLS — One year ago, David Thweatt made a decision so controversial and groundbreaking the story about it sped around the world.
The superintendent of the isolated Harrold Independent School District, about 30 miles northwest of here, made history last [...]

Question:  I represent a doctors office.  We have a patient that has a permit and carries a gun into our office. We are not really comfortable with that and would like to put up a sign requesting patients to not carry in our office. Is that OK?  We do not want to violate anyone’s rights?
Answer: [...]

Friday, June 19, 2009
NRA-ILA has recently received several calls from NRA members in border states who have been visited or called by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.  In some cases, agents have asked to enter these people’s homes, and requested serial numbers of all firearms the members possess.
In each case, [...]

Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – Two-thirds of the nation’s attorneys general have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case of NRA v. Chicago and hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bi-partisan [...]

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – Today, by a margin of 58-39, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate voted in favor of an amendment offered by Senator John Thune to provide interstate recognition of right-to-carry permits. The amendment to S.1390, the National Defense Authorization Act, would acknowledge that the right to self-defense extends across [...]

Yesterday, Governor Jan Brewer signed a new law that clarifies what constitutes a legal “defensive display” of a firearm.  This new law takes effect on September 30, 2009.
The law states that the “Defensive Display” of a firearm by a person is justified “when and to the extent that a reasonable person would believe that physical [...]

In another major victory for Arizona gun owners and Arizona Concealed Weapons permit holders, Governor Brewer signed into law the so called “Parking Lot Law”.  The new law permits gun owners to keep a firearm locked inside their vehicle even if the vehicle is parked on private property owned by a business that prohibits weapons [...]

More Americans Not Supportive of New Laws
A number of recent polls show Americans are growing increasingly less supportive of new regulations to restrict firearms.  The Houston Chronicle reports that the shift in public opinion is so strong that a potential ban on so-called “assault weapons”, once backed by 3 in 4 Americans  “now rates barely [...]