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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a proclamation that designates his state as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State," reaffirming the state's ...

Texas bill to allow unlicensed handgun carrying 'a recipe for disaster,' firearms trainers say The Texas House could vote Thursday on a bill to drop training and licensing requirements from carrying handguns in public. By John C. Moritz, USA TODAY NETWORK As a combat veteran, former police officer and now certified firearms instructor, Jorge DeLeon says Texas lawmakers are gambling with innocent lives if they remove the requirement that people who carry handguns in public be properly trained. "If you take away the only training we get as a civilian right now, it's going to be worse." DeLeon s...

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer Growing up in Oklahoma, you learn pretty quickly about the rivalry between the Sooner State and its southern neighbor. Texas may be bigger, and it may get more publicity, but doggone it anything that the Lone Star State can do Oklahoma can do better (or at least as well). So, when Texas governor Greg Abbott declared that one of his top legislative priorities this year was to turn the state into a Second Amendment Sanctuary, I had a feeling that Oklahoma legislators might try to get there first. To be fair, the first Second Amendment Sanctuary bill was introduced in Oklaho...

With the country already on edge, Jay Edwards has sponsored a few bills that should be concerning to his constiuents. 

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) Oklahoma is already one of the most Second Amendment-friendly states in the nation, with Constitutional Carry going into effect last year and efforts to declare the state a Second Amendment Sanctuary underway, but lawmakers are also pushing a bill that would end the use of the federal NICS system for background checks on gun purchases. House Bill 1630 would make a number of changes to state law, but the move away from NICS is what’s garnering the most attention and opposition. “A person with a mental health illness, a person that has been diagnosed, a pers...