On Monday, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced a companion bill to the National Reciprocity legislation that was introduced in the House by Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC-8) on January 3.
On January 25 Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a list of Obama-era gun controls which President Trump can undo.
On January 11 the NRA Blog listed @AWRHawkins as one of eight Twitter accounts that pro-gun Americans need to follow in 2017.
Larry Pratt, Gun Owners of America (GOA) executive director emeritus, told Breitbart News on Friday that national reciprocity for concealed carry “keeps good people from going to jail” when they unknowingly drive through an anti-gun jurisdiction that exists because of the patchwork of concealed carry laws.
The list includes everything from “exposing Hillary Clinton’s anti-gun agenda” to securing constitutional carry in various states to helping defeat President Obama’s gun-control Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
Indiana state representative Jim Lucas (R-Seymour) is sponsoring legislation that will remove the requirement for a concealed carry permit in order to carry a gun for self-defense.
The NRA’s push for national reciprocity is complimented by Gun Owners of America’s pursuit of the same goal, which means the two most powerful groups in the fight for gun rights will be united in making a concealed carry permit from any state valid in every state.
With president-elect Donald Trump headed toward a January 20, 2017 inauguration, one thing is certain–national reciprocity for concealed carry will have a friend in the White House. On September 18, 2015, Breitbart News reported Trump’s conviction that “concealed carry…is a right, not
On September 15, Gun Owners of America (GOA) pointed out that Republican lawmakers’ override of Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) veto of SB 656 makes Missouri the fourth state to adopt permitless carry this year.
Speaking at the second Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva, Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu blamed Mexico’s rampant gun crime on the U.S. laws and, in particular, cited the absence of a ban on “assault weapons.”
On August 18 Gun Owners of America (GOA) highlighted “the lie behind gun free zones” by pointing out that disarming good guys does not disarm bad guys.
Democrats are claiming that Donald Trump’s comments about “2nd Amendment people” stopping Hillary Clinton’s gun-grabbing agenda was somehow a violent threat. Shills for Hillary like Elizabeth Warren are even calling it a “death threat.”
Gun Owners of America (GOA) just released a radio ad that will run statewide in Arizona, urging voters to support Kelli Ward and end the senatorial run of “gun-grabbing globalist” John McCain.
Gun Owners of America has teamed up with production company Reel Clef to release the short film Praesidium, a film that powerfully highlights the dangers of gun-free zones and the need for armed self-defense.
While House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and other GOP lawmakers vacillate on gun control, combined with the language of terrorism, Gun Owners of America (GOA) warns that guns should not be part of the post-Orlando conversation. Rather, the focus should be on abolishing gun-free zones–like Pulse Orlando–and arresting the individuals who are named in terror watch lists, if those lists are actually reliable.
“I can’t believe that on Independence Day I have to warn people about an unconstitutional GOP gun control bill. Wait—yes, I can. #StopHR5611,” tweeted Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.
During a June 23 appearance on CNN, Gun Owners of America’s Erich Pratt shut down host Carol Costello’s gun violence inquisition by reminding her that she had omitted defensive gun uses.
On June 7, Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a statement alerting Americans that Obama is taking your grandpa’s guns.
“Content that would normally reach our nearly one million followers has steadily dropped to a fraction of what it once was, despite our page’s continual growth of new followers,” said a statement from Rob Russo, the social media manager for Alien Gear Holsters, one of the companies now pushing back against Facebook.
On May 5, Gun Owners of America (GOA) announced that National Reciprocity legislation has more than 80 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is renewing their push to secure national reciprocity for concealed carry, thereby guaranteeing that the right to carry does not stop at a given state’s border. Representative Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
Gun owners in Idaho and West Virginia can now carry their weapons concealed without a permit, allowing Gun Owners of America (GOA) to claim victory over “Bloomberg’s billions.”
The Senate should “bury” President Obama’s judicial nomination and declare it “Dead on Arrival,” Gun Owners of America (GOA) urged the Senate.
On March 7, Gun Owners of America (GOA) issued a press release warning that citizens who support the Second Amendment ought not vote for Marco Rubio.
On January 25 Gun Owners of America executive director emeritus Larry Pratt told Breitbart News the FBI’s arbitrary halt to processing appeals for background check denials is more evidence that “background checks are not constitutional” to begin with. Pratt intimated
McCain challenger Dr. Kelli Ward hit back Wednesday at “offensive” attacks from Sen. John McCain and his “establishment cronies” after a former McCain senior adviser called conservative leader Governor Sarah Palin — McCain’s 2008 Presidential running mate — “classless,” incompetent, and a “moron.”
During the January 14 GOP Debate, presidential hopeful Ted Cruz responded to moderator Neil Cavuto’s question on Obama and gun confiscation by pointing out that Obama demonstrated he was angling to take away guns from the moment he entered the White House.
Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward has gained the endorsement of the influential group Gun Owners of America in her campaign for U.S. Senate against entrenched beltway insider John McCain.
On November 12, CBS NEWS reported that “White House lawyers” are examining gun laws to find an avenue where President Obama can use executive action to go around Congress and expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
Representative Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) 2014 gun control vote could present another obstacle to this path to the Speakership of the House.
Over the weekend, Breitbart News sat down with Gun Owners of America’s Larry Pratt to ask his opinion on House Speaker John Boehner’s plans to resign, and Pratt said he was thrilled with the news. He said he also hopes Boehner is not alone among Republicans when he packs his bags to leave the Capitol for good.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is supporting Representative Mark Meadows’ (R-NC-11th) efforts to oust Speaker John Boehner (R-OH-8th), citing Boehner’s willingness to let Democrats bring gun control proposals to the floor of the Republican-controlled House for a vote.
On September 8 Gun Owners of America (GOA) endorsed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for President of the United States. In a press release issued with the endorsement, GOA chairman Tim Macy explained the reasons they chose Cruz: Ted Cruz has promised
On August 20, Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt described the Democratic Party on the federal level as “increasingly” tyrannical and focused on passing laws to take guns away from law-abiding Americans.
On August 19 Breitbart News spoke with Gun Owners of America (GOA) executive director Larry Pratt and he described gun free zones as “murder magnets” that must be abolished by hitting their creators where it hurts–“in their bloody pocketbooks.”
Obama’s Department of Justice is working on “more than a dozen” new gun control regulations it plans to begin implementing apart from Congress. Some of the regulations are set to be put in place by November, others simply by the end of the Obama administration.
With the Senate focused on the 2016 budget, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has proposed an amendment that would ban federally mandated gun control.
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.
The GOP needs to pass National Reciprocity for CCW permits now.
As 2014 was a terrible year for the gun control lobby (GCL)–a year in which Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly, the Brady Campaign, and the machinations of Moms Demand Action were thoroughly rejected–the new plan for the GCL appears to be “Motion-Is-Progress.”
