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Ohio: Comprehensive Pro-Gun Reform Legislation Signed into Law Today
Today at a public signing ceremony, Governor John Kasich (R) signed into law House Bill 234, comprehensive pro-gun reform legislation. HB 234 will take effect in ninety days.
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U.S. Appeals Court rules on firearms prohibitions
In the first legal ruling of its type, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati on Thursday deemed unconstitutional a federal law that kept a Michigan man who was briefly committed to a mental institution decades ago from owning a gun.
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Second Amendment and people who had been committed to a mental institution 28 years ago
Under federal law, people who have been involuntarily "committed to a mental institution" — however long ago — are barred from possessing guns. Congress agreed that people with long-past mental problems might now be sane, and thus not especially dangerous, and provided for a means to apply for restoration of gun rights. But then in 1992 Congress ordered ATF not to spend any money applying the restoration program. And while it provided, in 2007, that people could get their rights restored by applying to a state that has a qualifying program for evaluating applicants' mental fitness, many states have no such program.
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Gun advocates again lobby so students can carry firearms on Indiana college campuses
Another gun battle may be looming at the Capitol, this time involving firearms on campus.Gun advocates again hope to prevent state colleges and universities from restricting students who want to bring licensed handguns on campus.
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A deeper look at claim Georgia leads the nation in school shootings since Sandy Hook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the Everytown for Gun Safety findings when they were first released last week.But a follow-up story noted concerns that PolitiFact found in previous Everytown school shooting report, centered on the group's overly broad definition of a school shooting.
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Australia: Lindt cafe hostages, like the rest of us, denied the practical right to self-defence
Legally, Australians have a right to self-defence.What we don't have is the practical ability to exercise that right. Owning any object for the purpose of self-defence, lethal or non-lethal, is a criminal offence. Those trapped within the Lindt cafe were left helpless, as carrying items for self-defence is not allowed under State law. What's worse, the offender possibly knew it.
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2014 Year in Review
2014 was a highly successful year for NRA in our fight to protect our Second Amendment rights. Although we didn't win every battle, our opponents were unable to hold back a wave of pro-gun victories. Our members and supporters heeded the call to "Stand and Fight" with NRA, helping to elect pro-gun majorities at both the state and federal levels.
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Bloomberg Operatives (Again) Mislead Public on "School Shootings"
It tells you a lot about gun control that those who promote it think that they can't do so honestly and forthrightly.
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Empty Cartridge Casing Lands Grade-Schooler Five-Day Suspension
For many youngsters, an empty cartridge casing can serve as a souvenir from an exciting day spent at the range or hunting with their elders. For one student at Chanute Elementary Schoolin Chanute, Kans., however, an empty cartridge case will likely be a reminder of the day overwrought school administrators threatened to turn his academic career upside down.
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NRA Endorsed Martha McSally Wins Last U.S. House Race of 2014
The last race for a congressional seat was finally determined, and NRA endorsed former Air Force Col. Martha McSally (R) has defeated Rep. Ron Barber (D) in the 2nd district of Arizona.
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The Doctor is In: Lame Duck Senators Confirm Obama's Anti-gun Surgeon General
Since February, the NRA has been cautioning gun owners of the threats to their rights posed by Dr. Vivek Murthy, Barack Obama's anti-gun nominee for U.S. Surgeon General. As news spread last week that a vote on Dr. Murthy's nomination was imminent, NRA renewed its opposition in a letter to Congress detailing the young physician's record of gun control activism and his insistence on the "public health" dimensions of the issue.
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