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White House: Obama issues new executive orders against guns
Washinton – President Obama ordered two more executive actions Thursday to restrict guns, banning the re-importation of military surplus firearms to private entities and proposing a regulation that would close a loophole in background checks. On the day B. Todd Jones is being sworn in as the new director of the Bureau of Alcohol,…
Newton Woman Arrested for Forged Background Check Report
COVINGTON – The Newton County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a local female resident and charged her with forgery after she allegedly forged a {criminal background and records check report and submitted it to a potential employer. Carmen Neal, 44, of 10618 Magnolia Heights Drive faces two counts of forgery associated with the incident. According…
Second Chance to Get FBI Backgrond Check Bill Right
In 2009, the National Employment Law Project released a report saying that FBI background check records were often incomplete or inaccurate, harming thousands of job seekers. U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., said he’d introduce a bill that would require the FBI to verify and correct criminal information before issuing an employment background check. Fast…
Gun Initiatives To Rally For Voters Signatures
OLYMPIA, WA — Whether you are for or against stricter background checks on gun sales, you’ll have a chance in the coming months to support your position by signing an initiative to next year’s Legislature. If both Initiative 591 and Initiative 594 get the required signatures, they’ll likely be on the 2014 ballot if…
New Background Check and Gun Laws Roll Out for July
Starting July 1, gun owners in Colorado and Connecticut will be adjusting to a new reality as gun control legislation passed in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, begins to take effect. As of July 2013, Coloradans are now no longer allowed to purchase magazines that…
Biden on Gun Control: We Have Not Given Up
The Obama administration will not drop its pursuit of tougher gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday, warning lawmakers who opposed earlier gun legislation of political hell to pay. “The country has changed,” Biden, the administration’s point person on gun control, said at an event at the White House. “You will pay a…
US Gun Control Advocates Mark 6 Months Since School Shooting
WASHINGTON – Six months have passed since the deadly elementary school shooting which made gun control a priority issue in the United States once again. Families of some of the victims are now going back to Washington to remind lawmakers that they are still waiting for actions to be taken. The lobbying visit Tuesday…
Lawsuits Against New Gun Laws in Numerous States
Two separate lawsuits have been filed in two different states against their local gun control laws. Connecticut gun advocates have filed a lawsuits to ultimately take down a gun control law passed in April, while the local sheriff’s office filed a similar suit against a new gun law in Colorado. In the wake of numerous…
Virginia Senator to Bring Back Expanded Background Check Bill
“It’s coming back,” said Virginia Senator Joe Manchin Tuesday about his bipartisan bill to expand background checks on gun sales, a bill which failed to pass on its first run through the Senate last month. Manchin’s bill–co-sponsored by Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania–fell short by six votes. “I have never seen something that resonated…
Fight Over Gun Control Far From Over
HOUSTON – Members of the National Rifle Association were assured that they would never have to surrender their firearms. Along with this statement they were told that the fight against government gun control is far from over, as they have yet to win in the coming battles in Congress and in next year’s midterm…