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During her summer internship with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 22-year-old Central Pennsylvania College student Kerian Norton got to know her partner Colin Goddard.
It may come as a surprise to many of his Democratic supporters, but Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful Jerry Brown has gone to bat for the National Rifle Association. The NRA's cause: urging the U.S. Supreme Court to guarantee the ability of gun...
Most of the amici briefs on the top side (or neutral) in the granted case on the application of the Second Amendment to state and local laws were filed on Monday. Thanks to the Second Amendment Foundation, and Alan Gura, counsel for the petitioners in McDonald v. Chicago (08-1521), the amici filings are linked here. Scotusblog [...]
Three people declare their candidacy in the races for House Districts 92, 93 and 96.
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today took legal action to protect Texans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and her former ardent foe, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), announced they were teaming up to sponsor legislation to combat gun trafficking.
A senior Senate staffer who has worked all year on the health system overhaul was asked to sum up that rare weekend session that brought the bill to the brink of formal consideration on the Senate floor. "One more night it didn't die," he said. And...
In what other country, but this, the U. S. of effing A., can you stroll into a cavernous public building (named War Memorial, no less, for the men who fought for this freedom) and under supervision of law enforcement officers and the Brady Bill view, handle, stroke, make gangster poses with and pote...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 / Standard Newswire / -- U.S. Senator Sam Brownback joined an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in signing an amicus curiae, or "friend of the court," brief supporting the NRA's position that the Second Amendment is incorporated against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
An argument over trespassing apparently sparked a shootout in rural northern Pennsylvania Tuesday that left a landowner from Red Lion dead and a member of a bear-hunting party hospitalized with a gunshot wound, police said.
HELENA - U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is part of a group of lawmakers signing a brief supporting a gun rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court is considering whether the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms applies to state and local laws restricting guns.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two men were arrested in a sting operation on charges they sold in New York City dozens of illegal guns purchased in Florida. Watson Joachin, 27 and Ryan Woodard, 22, were arraigned
Victoria L. Mohr from Dallas City is running for the Illinois State Representative seat in the 94th District during the Illinois primary election on Feb. 2, 2010.
Do you support Second Amendment gun rights for law abiding citizens? ( online surveys )
The state Ethics Commission charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 violations of state ethics rules . The charges centered mostly on overspending for plane tickets and misusing state aircraft.
What is being called the Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday will take place Nov. 27-28 to coincide with the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The first sale in 2008 was so popular the General Assembly authorized another for 2009.
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