A Florida agency in charge of vetting applicants for concealed gun carry permits didn’t run tens of thousands of them against an FBI database, as an employee could not log in. The state saw a spike of applications at the time. Read more The news, which has sent shockwaves across Twitter, is now being leveraged […]
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Trump contradicts an earlier claim he made about concealed carry during listening session with shooting survivors
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst During a speech to survivors of the Parkland shooting, President Donald Trump appeared to contradict an earlier claim he made about gun reform during his 2016 election campaign. Trump once tweeted that Hillary Clinton was “wrong” for saying he wanted “guns brought into the school classroom.” On Wednesday, Trump floated the possibility of […]
House bill opens door for more legal concealed firearms in DC
Published time: 17 Jun, 2017 04:13 Edited time: 17 Jun, 2017 04:14 A looser gun law will be valid in Washington, DC, if a conservative congressman’s bill becomes law. The DC Personal Protection Reciprocity Act was introduced after four people were shot at a congressional baseball practice. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) announced his introduction of […]
The Supreme Court’s next big gun case could determine whether you have a constitutional right to carry concealed guns in public
AP Edward Peruta is a litigious Vietnam veteran who spends part of each year living out of a trailer home in San Diego. Neil Gorsuch is a conservative Coloradan with impeccable Ivy League judicial credentials. Peruta’s legal challenge to San Diego County’s concealed carry permitting system has been winding its way through the federal court […]