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WA Magazine Ban Dies, Open Carry Bill Up for Hearing Ammoland Inc. Posted on A bill to ban so-called “high capacity magazines” in Washington State has apparently died, disappointing Seattle-based gun prohibitionists. U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Washington State gun prohibitionists are singing the blues while gun rights activists are cheering because a bill to restrict access to so-called “high-capacity magazines” did not get a vote before a March 9 deadline, effectively killing it f...

Washington State’s firearms preemption law is one of the oldest in the country. More than 40 states have “preemption” laws that place all authority for regulating firearms in the hands of the state legislature. However, a state appeals court panel in one of the states that pioneered preemption recently handed down a unanimous ruling that reinforced the regulatory approach. It drove anti-gunners nuts, because they have been trying to erase such laws across the country. Preemption statutes ...

SPRINGFIELD — Four Illinois residents who have been waiting for months for their state-issued concealed carry licenses are suing officials with the Illinois State Police for allegedly depriving them of their right to bear arms and right to due process. The lawsuit, filed Friday by the four individuals as well as the Illinois State Rifle Association and the gun-rights group Second Amendment Foundation, claims the state’s concealed carry law is unconstitutional. Under Illinois law, the Illino...

The lawsuit, filed by the four individuals as well as the Illinois State Rifle Association and the gun-rights group Second Amendment Foundation, claims the state’s concealed carry law is unconstitutional.

Four Illinoisans, two gun rights group claim delays infringe 2nd amendment rights

A lawsuit filed against Illinois State Police claim the states concealed carry law is unconstitutional.

(AP Photo/AJ Mast, File) If you’re an Illinois resident hoping to exercise your Second Amendment rights for the very first time, there’s no way for you to do so quickly unless you’re willing to break the law. In order to legally possess a firearm in the state, residents have to obtain a Firearms Owners ID card issued by the Illinois State Police, and in order to carry that firearm you must have a valid concealed carry license. The problem is that it’s taking the ISP months to process a ...

Tanzin v. Tanvir -- gleaning from them that "the Supreme Court is stepping up to deliver by reintroducing some common sense to the law." I know and admire Anya and Patrick, and I have great respect for their work challenging qualified immunity, and their advocacy for liberty generally. But their op-ed is profoundly mistaken in its suggestion that the Court is preparing to reconsider qualified immunity. The orders in Taylor and McCoy vacated especially egregious grants of immunity, which does ...

CCRKBA Warns: ‘Dems Trying to Turn 2A Rights into Regulated Privilege’ Ammoland Inc. Posted on Screen snip from CCRKBA’s new ‘SAVE2A.US’ message to American gun owners. U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms—sister organization to the Second Amendment Foundation and typically operating in its shadow—is launching an aggressive multi-network television advertising effort focusing on Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s H.R. 127, an...

A Washington appeals court struck down an onerous local gun storage ordinance in a victory for Second Amendment activists, who pushed a state law designed to stop strict gun laws from popping up in liberal localities.