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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoes pistol permit repeal, setting up override showdown with GOP

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed gun rights legislation Friday that would repeal the state’s permit requirement for buying handguns, which Republicans argue is outdated and an unnecessary infringement on Second Amendment rights, but which most Democrats vehemently oppose ending.

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Florida Legislature moving quickly on DeSantis priorities

From expanding gun rights to going after “woke” investors, the Florida Legislature is quickly moving on a list of bills that will give Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis conservative-pleasing policy successes as he prepares to launch a presidential campaign

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Parkland father arrested during House hearing on gun rights - Roll Call

A man whose son was killed in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was arrested outside a hearing on Second Amendment rights.

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NC Democrats protest vote on gun bill without any amendments

RALEIGH, N.C. — A package of gun rights measures, including a repeal of the state’s permit law for buying handguns, cleared the legislature on Wednesday after a contentious debate and protests by Democrats over a decision by House Speaker Tim Moore not to consider any amendments to the bill.

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Second Amendment Roundup: An Opening Judicial Salvo in Defense of Illinois' New Rifle Ban

[From the editor: I'm delighted to report that Stephen Halbrook will have a new column here on the blog, Second Amendment Roundup, which will offer a technical focus on recent Second Amendment cases. Halbrook is both a prominent gun rights lawyer and a leading legal scholar: He argued Printz v.…

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The Drug Exception to the Second Amendment

Conservatives have been slow to recognize the threat that drug prohibition poses to gun rights and other civil liberties.

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DeSantis says he supports open carry in audio recorded from gun rights group

TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis was recorded Thursday telling a member of a gun rights group that he supports allowing Floridians to openly carry guns in public — a measure that has been publicly opposed by some law enforcement officials and that would go further than any bill now…

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Advocates urge gun law changes after Michigan State shooting. Gun rights group threatens recalls

LANSING, Mo. — March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg rallied with Michigan State University and Oxford High School students Monday — a week after the mass shooting at the East Lansing university — to call on Michigan lawmakers to pass long-debated gun regulations.

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DeSantis wants to be the GOP’s most gun-friendly candidate. It could cost him in 2024

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to ease restrictions on gun ownership, a stance that exploits a weakness of former President Donald Trump and shores up support from a key segment of the GOP primary base.

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Editorial: Court ruling puts abuse victims at risk — and takes gun rights to ridiculous extremes

More than 200 women and men in Texas were killed by their intimate partners in 2021, according to the Texas Council on Family Violence. In an abusive dynamic, leaving an abuser is the most dangerous time for a survivor.

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Yes, You Have a First Amendment Right To Livestream Cops

Plus: Some State of the Union fact checking, a livestream discussion about gun rights and violence, and more...

Reason

Gun Rights in Joe Biden's America: Live With Jacob Sullum, Amy Swearer, and Nick Gillespie

Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion about the Second Amendment, gun control, and mass shootings.

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Federal judge rules that law barring marijuana users from owning guns is unconstitutional

Federal Judge Patrick Wyrick cited an expansion on gun rights by the US Supreme Court last year.

The Independent UK

Gun groups spent less on lobbying last year, when a new law passed - Roll Call

Groups battling on both dies of the gun rights debate reported lower lobbying expenditures in 2022, disclosures filed with Congress show.

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Judge blocks New Jersey ban on guns at beaches, casinos

A federal judge on Monday blocked New Jersey's recently enacted bans on carrying guns at beaches or casinos, though she left in place other restrictions passed by the state in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Eric Burlison led effort to expand gun rights in Missouri. Now, as congressman, he wants to repeal key federal gun law

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison, who led the effort to expand gun rights in Missouri when he was a member of the state Senate, is now going after a cornerstone federal gun law used by the Department of Justice to reduce gun violence.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Democracy is no longer good enough. GOP radicals press increasingly for war

It really was only a matter of time before the two rallying cries of the far right — election fraud and gun rights — came together in the most dangerous ways. The deadly Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection offered just a taste of the radicalism that the Republican mainstream has…

Salon

Rittenhouse gun event shut down

Rittenhouse's latest canceled event was sponsored by the National Association for Gun Rights

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Illinois State Rifle Association files federal lawsuit over state’s assault weapons ban

CHICAGO — Illinois’ flagship gun rights organization on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit alleging the newly signed state law that prohibits high-powered guns and large-capacity ammunition magazines violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois State Rifle Association files federal lawsuit over state’s gun ban

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Illinois’ sweeping firearms ban certain to end up in court, and some experts doubt it will stand

CHICAGO — In his closing remarks before a vote on a sweeping firearms ban, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon pushed back at critics who contended the prohibitions would violate the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court lets New York enforce new gun restrictions

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed New York to enforce a Democratic-backed gun control law adopted after the justices last year struck down the state's limits on carrying concealed handguns outside the home in a landmark ruling that expanded gun rights.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois House approves measure banning military style firearms, which Gov. JB Pritzker says he will sign

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House gave final approval Tuesday to a comprehensive measure to ban military style firearms that was drafted by Democrats, which now awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature even as gun rights advocates contend it is unconstitutional and vow a legal challenge.

Los Angeles Times

Why Virginia police hired ‘catfish’ cop Austin Lee Edwards

LOS ANGELES — In a previously unreported letter obtained by The Times, the head of the Virginia State Police detailed errors in his agency’s hiring of Austin Lee Edwards, the now-deceased “catfish” cop who killed three people in Riverside in late November.

The Independent UK

Oregon judge extends ban on new gun law's background checks

An Oregon judge is continuing to freeze the part of a new, voter-approved gun safety measure that requires a completed criminal background check before a gun can be sold or transferred

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