Archive → July, 2008
Pelosi opposes gun bill but may allow vote
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she personally opposes a bill loosening the District of Columbia’s gun laws, but that does not mean she will block it from coming to the floor.
“I want to see the particulars,†Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday. “Then we’ll see what comes to the floor or doesn’t come to the floor.â€
The bill, designed to head off a showdown between the National Rifle Association and conservative House Democrats, was introduced Thursday, with roughly 50 Democratic co-sponsors, according to congressional sources.
Push grows for guns on campus
Weston Cartwright remembers his first week at LeTourneau University in 2006, and how he amazed his dorm mates when he returned unharmed from a walk to a South Longview restaurant.
“They were like, ‘Are you serious?’ ” Cartwright said.
Bi-Partisan Bill Introduced to Restore the Second Amendment Rights of D.C. Residents
Pro-gun House Dems reach deal with NRA
Pro-gun Democrats have reached a compromise with the National Rifle Association to avoid an election-year showdown on gun laws in the District of Columbia.
The deal was negotiated with the powerful gun-rights group by Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.), Mike Ross (D-Ark.) and John Tanner (D-Tenn.), according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. The NRA has also signed off.
Mass. Mental Health Info Not Shared With FBI
Massachusetts has some of the toughest gun control laws in the country, but not when it comes to keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Gun-ban lawsuit part deux
Plaintiff Dick Heller, who successfully challenged the District`s ban on handguns, stands outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Exactly two weeks ago, we told Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council that the overbearing emergency legislation regulating gun purchases, registration and ownership they passed would face a lawsuit. The week before, we told them how to possibly avoid litigation. City Hall did not listen. Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the District remains onerous.
New law creates junior hunter program
Last week, new legislation that the New York state hunting community has been wanting and waiting for a very, very long time became law. It was a bill that creates a special “junior hunter†mentoring program which will allow youths 14-15 to hunt big game with a firearm while accompanied and supervised by an experienced adult hunter.
Owner gets back guns taken by police
When Lou Matteo got his handgun collection back, town police averted a legal battle based on a new U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an individual`s right to own a gun.
Political Prisms
What’s going on today in our country isn’t normal politics. It is more like a domestic Cold War.
Obama the Understudy
Not everyone — apparently not even Obama himself — knows that to be president takes a little more than just wanting to be one or pretending to be one.