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March 25, 2009 by
The city of Strongsville, Ohio, has banned the sale or manufacture of firearms, firearm components, deadly weapons, ammunition, and explosive or combustible devices in areas zoned as residential.
Jim Irvine, chairman of the Buckeye Firearms Association, said the ban could have unintended consequences. "If I wanted to sell a gun to another Strongsville resident and we can't do the sale in my house or in their house, what we will have to do to comply with this ordinance is go to some public place -- like the parking lot of any business -- and we will do the transaction there, so then it will be legal," he said. "How will that make the city better or safer and what problem will it solve?"
Irvine, who hosts a weekly radio talk show, Firearms Forum, on WHK-1420 AM, said the Cleveland suburb's ordinance will eventually be challenged and overturned in court.
For more, go to: http://www.cleveland.com/sunnews/index.ssf/2009/03/strongsville_bans_selling_guns.html
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March 25, 2009 by
March 25, 2009 by
Prison Planet.com blogger Paul Joseph Watson writes in his Friday, March 20, column about "a shocking new gun control law recently introduced in Albany County (that) is being labeled the most draconian piece of anti-second amendment legislation yet seen. The law requires buyers of all ammunition, even shotgun pellets, to provide their drivers license, state their purpose for buying the ammunition, and have the information retained and accessible by law enforcement for no less than 10 years."
According to Watson, "Anyone buying rounds or shells, even .22s, for hunting or target shooting in Albany County, N.Y., would have to provide ID, declare the gun and have its serial number registered with the seller. Based on the information provided by the buyer as to the purpose of buying the ammunition, the seller could block the purchase."
For more, go to: http://www.prisonplanet.com/draconian-gun-law-guts-2nd-amendment-privacy.html
[ Read Full Post ]March 25, 2009 by
A group of Maryland state senators has added a twist to Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to take guns from the subjects of protective orders, voting to make it easier for domestic violence victims to get guns of their own.
In a 6-5 decision, the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee amended a bill last week that would require a judge to confiscate firearms when granting a final protective order. They changed the legislation to include a provision that the judge help speed a petitioner's application for a permit to carry a weapon.
For more, go to: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.domesticbill22mar22,0,6168677.story
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March 25, 2009 by
The Defense Department has reversed a directive issued last month to stop selling used ammunition shells to manufacturers, after gun owners and Montana's two U.S. senators complained that it would increase the cost of ammunition and kill a revenue-generating program for the government.
For more, go to: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/20/scrape-scrap/
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March 25, 2009 by
March 19, 2009 by Montana Legislators are expected to adopt that state's version of the "Castle Doctrine," which states people have the right to self-defense without first retreating. The bill passed fairly quickly through the House Tuesday and will be presented to the Senate sometime in the next month.
For more, go to: http://montananewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=100243938nav+menu227_6
[ Read Full Post ]March 19, 2009 by Jacob Sullum notes in his Wednesday Townhall.com column that there's one big problem with claiming the shootings in Alabama and Germany indicate the assault weapons ban should be restored.
"In truth," he writes, "neither of these guns is an assault rifle, which by definition is capable of firing automatically ... Gun control groups deliberately foster confusion between 'assault weapons,' an arbitrary category based mainly on appearances, and machine guns, which are already strictly regulated under federal law."
For more, go to: http://townhall.com/Columnists/JacobSullum/2009/03/18/the_gunman_and_the_gun_ban
[ Read Full Post ]March 19, 2009 by America's leading firearms manufacturers, many based in Connecticut, held a press conference at the state's Capitol in Hartford Wednesday to announce a unified industry stand against legislation that would force them to adopt a patented, unreliable sole-sourced technology to microstamp firearms.
For more, go to: http://www.nssf.org/PR/031609.cfm
[ Read Full Post ]March 11, 2009 by
A bill that would allow a law-abiding citizen to carry a loaded gun in a car -- if that person owns the car or has permission from the owner -- passed a Utah House committee Monda, March 2.
HB357, sponsored by Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, also makes it legal to have a loaded weapon in a home, which is currently against the law without a permit.
For more, go to: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11820384
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