The planned deployment of what the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division describes as Phase 1 of the “New NICS,” originally slated for July 14, has been rescheduled to Jan. 12, 2016. …
In 2013, the Los Angeles City Council proposed an ordinance declaring magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition (so-called “large-capacity magazines”) a “public nuisance” subject to confiscation and destruction. Though not directly prohibiting their possession, the initial …
The National Shooting Sports Foundation this week submitted a letter in opposition to a proposed ordinance that would ban the possession of “large-capacity” magazines in Los Angeles. The City Council voted unanimously to pass the proposal and according to this …
Flashreport’s Katy Grimes deserves tremendous credit for seemingly being the only political reporter covering Sacramento politics willing to take to task the California Fish and Game Commission for its ongoing antics writing this week, …
NSSF, as the trade association of the firearms industry, has filed a friend of the court brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Peña v. Lindley, in support of the Second Amendment challenge brought by …
In Washington, D.C. this week two developments separately demonstrated that no gun control legislation is likely to be considered by the current Congress. In the first instance, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) admitted that his effort to expand background checks …
NICS was established 17 years ago with Congressional passage of the Brady Act and was itself the recommendation of the firearms industry. Because our retailers are on the front lines every day using the system to help protect public safety, …
The story of an American dentist whose recent African hunt resulted in the taking of a named lion that had become a favorite of tourists in a Zimbabwe preserve exploded across social media this week with predictable results. …
A federal appellate court this week denied a request for full panel of judges (en banc review) to re-hear a challenge of Florida’s state statute that prevents healthcare professionals from inquiring about patient’s firearms.…
Next Wednesday, Aug. 5, the Seattle City Council’s Education and Government Committee will meet again to discuss proposed ordinances that would both burden federally licensed firearms businesses and law-abiding citizens and violate Washington state law. Council Bill 118437, touted …
