Rep. Ben Cline led his colleagues in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives urging its acting director to make certain employees essential workers, warning current parameters are leaving gun owners’ applications for certain items in limbo.
“When you have people knocking on your door and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn’t that what the Second Amendment was written for?”
“Why would I have a problem with that any more than somebody who drinks alcohol?” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said
The complaint asserts that, with the removal of the excise tax on constitutionally protected arms like suppressors and SBRs, the NFA registration regime can no longer be upheld as a legal exercise of Congress’s taxing power.
It’s been about a decade since gun-violence restraining orders were enabled by California law, but their use is still middling
Last night, in a Friday night news dump, Newsom signed into law a bill that bans GLOCK pistols. The bill was ostensibly written because criminals are able to print illegal switches that convert standard semi-auto GLOCKs into fully automatic handguns.
More than 700 faith and religious leaders from across the state are urging Governor Tim Walz to call a special session and for lawmakers to pass a ban on assault weapons.
“I feel like a .45 ACP 1911 and a pistol grip .308 would be a wise decision given where we are as a country and what might happen in my neighborhood.”
Publix, one of Florida’s largest and most recognizable grocery chains, is now allowing customers to openly carry firearms in its stores across the state, according to multiple employees.
But the strategy of passing local laws to prevent gun violence is risky in Pennsylvania, a state with a preemption law, which gives it the sole authority to regulate firearms.
