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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For a second straight day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg drew attention to the need to curb illegal guns. Today, he stood with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, who announced l....
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.
.Supported by Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, and the Brady Campaign, Senator Gillibrand and Representative McCarthy unveiled the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2009 today, which will empower local, state, and federal law enforcement to investigate and prosecute gun traffickers and their entire criminal networks, while ...
From the Daily News's Michael Daly : The great state of South Carolina is putting its own sick twist on Black Friday with a tax holiday on firearm purchases. Not cars. Not clothes. Certainly not books. Just guns. For the 48 hours following Thanksgiving, gun buyers will enjoy a break of up to 9% in state and local taxes. Firearms traffickers are not expected to pass the savings on to New York ...
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...
AUSTIN - From Texas Attorney General's Office - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today (Monday) took legal action to protect Texans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
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 [...]
NEW YORK----President Obama’s overall job approval has been steadily declining for the past few months and when asked why people either like or dislike the job he is doing, the top response for both has to do with change.
The government of the United States was well balanced when President Reagan took office in 1981. The unions were strong enough to represent the common ...
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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