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The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendments guarantee of "due process," since doing so through another part of the 14th Amendment would raise too many questions about what other rights might emerge. - [Read more]

The Supreme Court is wrestling with a major case questioning whether Chicago’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment, but 69% of Americans say city governments do not have the right to prevent citizens from owning such guns. - [Read more]

Based on a quick read of the oral argument transcript, a few things stood out: 1. The Privileges or Immunities arguments never really got off the ground. None of the Justices seemed in favor of that approach, at least based on the questions. (Justice Thomas, as is his custom, asked no questions.) Only about 10-12 minutes of the questioning even concerned the P or I route, and the questioning seemed mostly focused on trying to understand the nature of the claim. For my VC co bloggers and... - [Read more]

Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the District of Columbias ban on handguns was unconstitutional. Now, it should take the opportunity to affirm Americans Second Amendment rights across the nation. - [Read more]

The bill states that as long as a person has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and its locked away, they can have a gun in their private vehicle on work property. Democratic Senator Roger Bedford introduced the bill. He says he wants folks to be able to protect themselves in case something happens while traveling to and from work. - [Read more]

A House committee is considering a bill that would prohibit most private employers from telling employees they cannot keep a legal firearm in their locked vehicles while parked at work. - [Read more]

At the urging of the National Rifle Association, Democratic Sen. Roger Bedford of Russellville got the Senate to vote 26 2 for his bill. "This vote is about one thing only: Do you support Second Amendment rights?" Bedford told the Senate. His bill would ban businesses from having policies that prohibit legal firearms from being transported to the businesses parking lots. But the guns must be locked out of sight in the glove box or trunk of private vehicles. - [Read more]

The Tuscaloosa City Council Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to ban firearms from city buildings and facilities. The city already prohibits city employees, except police officers, from possessing firearms on the job. The new ordinance would ban all citizens from entering city facilities with firearms. The new ordinance must go before the full City Council for approval. - [Read more]

State lawmakers are moving to constitutionally protect the right to hunt and fish, a move backers admit is designed to undermine future voter efforts to restrict how that can be done. On a 6 1 vote Wednesday, the House Committee on Military Affairs and Public Safety approved language that, if adopted by voters in November, would prohibit any law or regulation "that unreasonably restricts hunting, fishing and harvesting wildlife or the use of traditional means and methods." It also would... - [Read more]

The City of Cottonwood in the future will allow firearms to be carried its public parks. Since its code was adopted in 1993, firearms, with the exception of Fourth of July fireworks, have been excluded from the city parks under the code. The amendment sought this week would make the city ordinance language consistent with current state law, which "trumps local law, advised the city attorney. He described it as a "supremacy change." - [Read more]

A bill to limit local regulation of knives is carving its way through the Arizona legislature. The Senate today passed SB1153, which has is supported by National Rifle Association, Arizonas NRA affiliate, the Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association, Arizona Citizens Defense League, Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Supporters say the measure will help citizens who currently face a patchwork of knife related rules in Arizonas towns,... - [Read more]

The Arizona Senate is poised to broaden the states restrictions on local gun control laws. State law already generally pre empts local ordinances on transportation, possession, sale or use of firearms and ammunition, but the law given preliminary approved Thursday goes farther. It would prohibit local governments from enacting laws more restrictive than state law and specifically prohibit ordinances that limit possession of guns in parks. Also, local governments could not regulate the... - [Read more]

The introduction of a new gun licensing system by the Western Australia government has made the process longer and more difficult for country people. Instead of being able to apply for a gun license over the counter at their local police station, anyone wanting to purchase a gun must now wait for their application to be sent off to Perth for approval. - [Read more]

We ought to be used to the stories by now -- "Student suspended for toy gun"; "Boy Scout tool nets student suspension"; "Tweety Bird key chain cause for expulsion." Still, when we read of a fourth grade student being hauled into a school prinicipals office because his LEGO policeman figure is carrying a two inch long plastic rifle, it is hard to resist the urge to pull at ones hair in reaction to the sheer idiocacy of the adults who do such things. This latest example of a grown up appearing... - [Read more]

Local gun shop owners are seeing an increase in the number of women customers right now. Personal protection is the main reason theyre shopping. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, almost half the people taking their first handgun class this past year were women. - [Read more]

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens prompted guffaws from some Second Amendment stalwarts when she said at a Feb. 9 candidate forum that shes approved 90 percent of applications for concealed weapons permits. In fact, shes significantly tightened distribution criteria. There are 22 percent fewer CCW permits than when Hutchens was appointed to the job in 2008. And most permits shes approved come with restrictions absent from permits issued by predecessor Mike Carona. - [Read more]

Ventura County Assemblyman Pedro Nava, who three years ago authored a landmark law that barred the use of lead bullets by those hunting deer in areas where condors are known to forage, introduced new legislation Wednesday that would ban the use of lead shot by those hunting pheasant, quail, doves and other birds in California wildlife areas. - [Read more]