Attorney General Eric Holder scolded The Daily Caller’s reporting on the Fast and Furious gun running scandal shortly after government officials and reporters heard him admonish Americans for funding gun runners.
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The Fayetteville City Council is the latest local government to consider a possible ordinance to address the Local Park Carry provisions of House Bill 650, as previously reported here.
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The Quincy City Council Monday night passed a non binding resolution supporting a Concealed Carry handgun law.
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The Winston-Salem City Council is the latest local government to take action on the issue of concealed carry in the parks it controls. On Monday, November 21, the council voted 7 to 1 to prohibit firearms in 52 of the 69 parks under the city’s control. Permit holders will still be allowed to store their personal protection firearms in their vehicles while parked in the parking lots of the restricted areas.
Last night, the Knoxville City Council tabled a proposed gun-ban designed to deny all Iowans the ability to lawfully carry firearms in any city-owned building. However, the outspoken opposition of NRA and Iowa Firearm Coalition (NRA’s state affiliate) members has earned the citizens of Knoxville and Iowans across the state at least a temporary victory.
On Tuesday November 16, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism held a hearing on Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) S. 436. Dubbed by anti-gunners the “Fix Gun Checks Act,” rather than “fix” the current National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the legislation would eliminate private sales and gun shows as we know them and expand the range of persons prohibited from owning firearms.
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The final conference report on the combined Fiscal Year 2012 Agriculture, Commerce/Justice/Science (CJS) and Transportation/Housing/Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bills—also known as the “Mini-Bus,” was passed by both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate, and has been signed into law.
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On November 4, Governor Scott Walker signed two pro-hunting bills into law which will take effect in advance of opening day of hunting season this year.
Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.
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