Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill Introduced

For the second time in as many weeks, a national Right-to-Carry reciprocity bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate.

 
On March 20, U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) introduced Senate Bill 2213, the “Respecting States’ Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.”  NRA strongly supports this measure.  Under this self-defense bill, an individual who has met the requirements for a carry permit, or who is otherwise allowed by state law to carry a handgun, would be authorized to carry a handgun in any other state that issues such permits or does not prohibit concealed carry, subject to the laws of the state in which it is carried.

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Nebraska Farmers Show Their Pride

This from Humane Watch:

We had to laugh when HSUS started its “We Are Nebraska” campaign a few days ago. An anti-agriculture group claiming to represent an agricultural state? Puh-leez.

From what we can see on HSUS’s Flickr steam, only two farmers and ranchers have submitted photos supporting HSUS’s campaign, including one who’s on HSUS’s state council. (Gee, what happened to all those 51,000 HSUS “members” in Nebraska? Maybe they don’t exist.) Read more

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Missouri Coalition Defeats HSUS-Backed Ballot Initiative

Missouri citizens didn’t buy into an HSUS scheme to shove more animal-rights nonsense down their throats.  A petition drive has ended.

“Your Vote Counts was a front for HSUS so they could more effectively attack agriculture in the future, but it would have opened a floodgate of outside money on any number of issues,” says Missouri Farmers Care Treasurer Dale Ludwig “The fact that 77% of Your Vote Counts’ money came from HSUS is a pretty clear indicator that animal-rights groups wanted this change so they could attack agriculture again.”  More here…

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Eric Holder: Brainwash people’s thinking about guns

Attorney Eric Holder had this to say in 1995.  “I’ve asked the school board to make a part of every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message: every school, every day, at every level.  We need to do this every day of the week and just brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”  Hear him in his own words at the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gYyqBxD-3xw

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Too Warm for Maple Syrup

“We were going to wait,” Marvin Besteman explained, motioning towards the budding maples on his property, “but now its too late. We know we could have made some syrup, but not the good grade of syrup.”  More here…

General

Pike County, Illinois Enacts Concealed Carry

“We the people” trump Illinois lawmakers at ballot box and want their Second Amendment rights restored.  A court battle looms to determine authority.

PASA Park, Barry, IL — In the election held Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the voters of Pike County, Illinois, approved a firearms concealed-carry ordinance by a 3,214 to 550 margin. It was one of the largest voter turnouts in county history. The ordinance directly contradicts current Illinois state law. As presented on the ballot, the ordinance took effect upon passage, and applies only to Pike County. The ordinance was placed on the ballot by a citizen initiative petition process that garnered three times the number of signatures required by law. Read more

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Courts Split on Right to Carry Firearms Outside the Home

This from the NRA:

Unquestionably the hottest issue in Second Amendment litigation today is whether the Second Amendment protects a right to carry firearms outside the home for personal protection—and if so, what might be the limits on that right. Until recently, far too many courts have wrongly claimed that because the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago only struck down bans on handgun possession in the home, that’s all there is to the Second Amendment.

Now, there are signs that this resistance is weakening. Read more

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