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  Last week, President Trump signed a resolution that kills an Obama-era rule preventing some Social Security recipients from buying guns. House Joint Resolution 40 stopped the Obama directive to the Social Security Administration to disclose information about certain people with mental illnesses to the national gun background check system. The order was made last December... [Read More]

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  The U.S. Senate (57-43) and the U.S. House of Representatives (235-180) have both passed H.J.Res.40, important gun-owners’ rights legislation that now heads to President Donald Trump. The measure would block the implementation of an Obama-era rule under which the Social Security Administration (SSA) would report the names of tens of thousands of beneficiaries annually... [Read More]

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  U.S. Law Shield of Virginia Members will be happy to hear that several pro-rights gun bills are headed to the Governor Terry McAuliffe’s desk for his signature or veto, Independent Program Attorneys Ed Riley and Mitch Wells report: HB1432 by Delegate R. Lee Ware (R, House District 65) authorizes any person to carry a switchblade... [Read More]

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  Members, several firearms-related bills are currently moving through the Oklahoma Legislature, which convened for its 2017 Legislative Session February 6. Here’s an update on several bills that you may want to follow, says Robert Robles, U.S. Law Shield of Oklahoma Independent Program Attorney. In the House Judiciary Committee: — HB 2322 by Representative Jeff Coody... [Read More]

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  Two bills recently filed in the Florida Legislature would remove many restrictions on where gun owners can legally carry concealed firearms, effectively doing away with many gun-free zones in the state. State Sen. Dennis Baxley filed Senate Bill 908 and Rep. Don Hahnfeldt filed House Bill 803 for this legislative session, and those bills... [Read More]

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    Since the election on November 8, 2016, there has been some hope that national reciprocity for concealed handgun permits would be similar to that for driver’s licenses. If you have a driver’s license in Florida, you can drive all the way to Maine or Washington state or drive in Alaska or Hawaii. See... [Read More]

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The Oklahoma Legislature will be busy addressing the dozens of proposed gun laws filed for consideration when the lawmakers convene for the 2017 session beginning February 6th. Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm (R-Tulsa) is a firm believer in the right of law-abiding citizens to be able to carry guns for self-defense and he intends to... [Read More]

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On Tuesday, January 3, 2017, the prospect of national reciprocity for concealed carry license holders took its first step. Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), a member of President-elect Donald Trump’s Second Amendment Coalition, filed H.R.38, known as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017. The proposed measure would require states to recognize each other’s gun carry... [Read More]

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  A U.S. Congressman recognizes that gun-free school zones don’t work and takes action to address the problem. On January 3, 2017, U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) Chairman of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus this legislative session, introduced H.R. 34, the “Safe Students Act” to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSCA) of 1990. Currently,... [Read More]

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  For nearly a century, the federal government has held that firearms and ammunition could be banned by executive fiat if they weren’t “for sporting purposes.” Perhaps that and other rules will be changing in the coming months. In June of 2015, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) sought to correct the “sporting purposes” interpretation by the... [Read More]

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We previously reported on a bill (HB110) pre-filled in Texas that would limit enforcement of federal gun laws by state agencies or political subdivisions, or any of its employees in Texas. Well, one lawmaker has taken it a step further. State Representative Mark Keough (R) introduced HB 99, The Texas Firearm Protection Act, that adds... [Read More]

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  As Texas & U.S. Law Shield have previously reported, advocates of hearing protection want to pursue new legislation to make suppressors easier to buy, and a key backer is Donald Trump, Jr. “It’s about safety,” Trump Jr. explains in the video interview above recorded last September with the founder of SilencerCo Joshua Waldron. “It’s a health issue,... [Read More]

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