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The powerful Home Affairs Select Committee has announced it will investigate firearms rules following the June 2 killings. Prime Minister David Cameron had previously warned against a “knee-jerk reaction” and said Britain’s gun control legislation was among the tightest in the world. - [Read more]

The ban on hunting should be repealed in the early months of an incoming Conservative government, according to a Tory MP featured in a pro-hunting video. The comments by the Conservative candidate for Shrewsbury and Atcham, Daniel Kawczynski, suggest the issue should be given greater priority than is official party policy. - [Read more]

Laws on gun control are to be investigated by the Home Affairs Select Committee following recent high profile fatal shootings. The committee will examine the extent to which legally held guns are used in crime and whether licensing rules are adequate. Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the UK already has among the toughest gun control measures in the world and in light of the shootings in Cumbria warned against a "knee jerk reaction". - [Read more]

After negotiations with the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives have secured a pledge to introduce a parliamentary vote on abandoning the ban. David Cameron has personally called for the ban to be lifted but the Liberal Democrats have previously opposed the move. - [Read more]

A Falklands veteran has accused North Wales Police of jeopardising his pest control business by limiting the terms of his gun licences. Alan Bennett, a weapons expert who served 25 years with the Welsh Guards, claims to need high-calibre rifles to stalk prey that range from deer to predators of rare birds. - [Read more]

Gun laws in the UK are among the toughest in the world. The killings in Cumbria will reopen the argument about gun control with people against restrictions arguing that whatever curbs are in place incidents such as today’s will still happen. - [Read more]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today denied a petition calling for a ban on the production and distribution of lead hunting ammunition. EPA sent a letter to the petitioners explaining the rejection. - [Read more]

Weve been here before, but that doesnt make the situation any less threatening. A contingent of conservation groups Wednesday petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of lead in hunting ammunition and fishing tackle. - [Read more]

The U.S. Supreme Court says Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms. The EPA says the bullets for those guns may be banned as an environmental hazard. The endless power grabs by the federal leviathan know no boundaries of law, science or even common sense. The Environmental Protection Agency of Lisa Jackson is seriously considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity, a leading anti hunting group, to ban all traditional lead ammunition under the Toxic Substance... - [Read more]

When President Obama took office, gun rights advocates sounded the alarm, warning that he intended to strip them of their arms and ammunition. And yet the opposite is happening. Mr. Obama has been largely silent on the issue while states are engaged in a new and largely successful push for expanded gun rights, even passing measures that have been rejected in the past. - [Read more]

Federal lawmakers Tuesday introduced bills into the House and Senate that would repeal most of the local gun laws in Washington, D.C. The bills come less than a week after Democratic leaders withdrew landmark legislation that would have given the District a vote in the House of Representatives because of Republican plans to introduce an amendment similarly aimed at loosening city gun restrictions. - [Read more]

The gun grabbers in Washington are celebrating a federal ruling handed down Friday that upheld the tangle of rules that effectively prohibit District residents from owning firearms for the purpose of home defense. While the Supreme Court in its landmark 2008 Heller decision recognized the individuals right to own a gun, it also conceded that reasonable regulations on gun ownership might be acceptable. U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina took this concession as a green light to approve... - [Read more]

Judge Ricardo Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the Washington, D.C., firearm ordinances enacted after the Supreme Courts D.C. v. Heller decision in 2008 "permissibly regulate the exercise of the core Second Amendment right to use firearms for the purpose of self defense in the home." Urbina dismissed a case brought by Dick Heller, the same plaintiff who challenged the previous D.C. ordinance in the Supreme Court. - [Read more]

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Finland will not impose a full ban on semi automatic weapons, the interior minister said Monday, rejecting an inquiry commission proposal. - [Read more]

Finland has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the world but they could be about to get tougher. People there have more guns, per person, than in most other countries. The government is now hoping that new legislation will halve the number of weapons licenses which are issued. - [Read more]

A Finnish government commission on Wednesday proposed a ban on semiautomatic handguns after two school shootings in recent years left 20 people dead. The ban, which needs parliamentary approval, would sharply reduce the number of legal weapons in a country that ranks among the worlds top five in civilian gun ownership. - [Read more]

Finland has one of the highest concentrations of gun owners per capita in the world. However, after three deadly shooting sprees in the past couple of years, campaigners say it is about time the issue was reassessed. Gun shop owner Mika Nevalainen says the only gun related problem he knows of is that not enough people are buying them. Nonetheless, there is a stream of customers coming into his weapons shop in central Helsinki. - [Read more]

Judicial liberals have been discovering the virtues of legal precedent now that conservatives are finally winning a few cases at the Supreme Court, but in yesterdays major gun rights case that all went out the window. The four liberal Justices rejected a 2008 landmark precedent as well as one of their own bedrock Constitutional principles. This suggests that the liberals have decided to bide their time and wait for a fifth vote so they can overturn both Heller and McDonald. This means that... - [Read more]

Florida is ankle deep in its latest gun rights battle, but this time the fighting is being waged behind closed doors. In a last minute push, the NRA is lobbying lawmakers to adopt a measure that would allow some gun owners to keep weapons in their vehicle wherever they go. - [Read more]