Senate Passes Bills on FBI NICS Exemption and Firearm Storage

  Virginia – The West Virginia Senate passed a Bill that would exempt current and valid permit to carry holders from going through the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments February 23, 2012

PA School Background Check Challenged

  HARRISBURG, Pa. – A recently renewed Pennsylvania law is now being challenged by school employees who has had some past run-ins with the law, and specially those who has ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments February 21, 2012

New Background Check Bill Passed for Safer Mentoring Programs

  Passed and written by Rep. Joseph M. McNamara (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston) and passed today, House bill (2012-H7077)will make national and state criminal background check a requirement for anybody ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments February 17, 2012

Flaws in FBI Background Check System Fail to Flag Purchases

  Like many states, Maine depends on the FBI to conduct background checks of people who want to acquire firearms from the state’s federally licensed gun dealers. And like many ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments September 4, 2011

Potential New Gunman Reported at Virginia Tech

Update 10:31 a.m. – August 4, 2011 Virginia Tech is in lockdown as authorities look for a man three youths said may have had a weapon, possibly a handgun. The ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments August 4, 2011

Arizona Suspected Gunman Passed FBI Criminal Background Check

  Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and at least 17 others were shot on January 8, 2011, Saturday morning when a gunman opened fire outside a supermarket where Ms. ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments July 5, 2011

Osama Bin Laden is Dead, President Obama Announces

  Osama Bin Laden is dead, President Obama announced Sunday night, in a televised address to the nation. His death was the result of a U.S. operation launched today in ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments May 3, 2011

Arizona Governor Vetoes Birther and College Campus Gun Bill

  PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed two controversial bills, one mandating proof of U.S. citizenship to run for president, the other allowing guns on ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments April 19, 2011

President Obama Calling for Better Gun Sale Background Checks

  The Second Amendment and court precedent guarantee an individual’s right to bear arms, but improved and expanded background checks are needed to prevent gun violence like the shocking attack ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments March 14, 2011

American Love of Firearms Continues as Gun Sales Continue to Climb

  NEWTOWN, Conn –(Ammoland.com)- The January 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 784,856 is an increase of 9.7 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of ... Read MoreRead More

0 Comments February 21, 2011