2nd Amendment

On March 20 West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D) vetoed SB 347–the bill to repeal the concealed carry permit requirement in that state.

Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth graders at Avondale, Colorado’s Craver Middle School, traded pencils for American Revolution firearms in a history program in which military re-enactors taught them how to shoot and showed them just how difficult many of the shots were that Colonial troops had to make against the British Red Coats.

ATF director B. Todd Jones is stepping down amid the backlash surrounding the agency’s proposed AR-15 bullet ban.

On March 17, disabled Army veteran Joshua Anderson shot two attackers after one allegedly pushed a pregnant woman to the ground.

With female participation in concealed carry classes growing in Michigan, and Governor Rick Snyder (R) signing a bill that allows a woman to get a concealed carry permit in an expedited manner when in a domestic violence situation, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is warning that gun control is the answer, not concealed carry.

Retired Pastor James Atwood is touring Nebraska and Kansas, speaking to congregations about his belief in the need for more gun control to address the “spiritual implications” of gun violence.

On March 11 a Newport News, Virginia, mother who was home alone with her daughter shot an alleged home invader, surmising, “It was either him or me [and] I have my daughter to protect.”

On March 13, Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) tried to undercut the sporting uses of the M855 round by labeling it “armor piercing” and tweeting that there is no justification for hunters to possess it. Engel tried to back this up by observing, “I have never seen a deer wear Kevlar.”

On March 15 a bullet from the Plant City, Florida Police Department Pistol Range struck the back door of the home of Gary Hazen, whose house is half a mile away from the range.

When officers pulled Steffon Josey-Davis over for a traffic violation on September 20, 2013, they discovered a legally owned gun in his car. But because Josey-Davis did not have a permit to carry the gun, he was charged with a “second degree felony.”

On March 18, Assembly Bill 148—which would legalized campus carry—passed the Nevada Assembly Judiciary Committee and is now headed to the Assembly floor.

On March 18, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords met with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) to discuss new firearm confiscation laws for the state.

On October 17, 1788, founding father James Madison wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson in which he explained his support for a Bill of Rights as way to protect “essential rights” from the whims of the “majority.”

On March 17 the Huffington Post ran a column detailing how Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and other members of the gun control lobby are getting decimated by state legislatures across the country.

On March 17, Think Progress chastised the GOP for supporting the use guns to stop campus rape and sexual assault.

In effort to prove once and for all that owning guns puts Americans in danger, States United to Prevent Gun Violence set up a fake gun store and shamed first-time gun buyers into foregoing their purchase.

After a week of various Democrats expressing their disbelief that the ATF stopped pursuing a ban on the M855 round for AR-15 rifles, Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) is putting forth a broader ban intended to cover all centerfire “armor piercing”

On March 16, the Florida Senate Higher Education Subcommittee passed SB 176, campus carry legislation, by a vote of 6-3.

On Monday, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) put forth legislation banning future ATF rifle ammo bans.

On March 17, Gabby Giffords will be at the Connecticut state Capitol with Governor Dannel Malloy (D) to push for the passage of a gun laws that were actually “enacted 15 years ago.” The law being pushed by Giffords would