Your NRA-ILA Daily Alert 1/21/2017

Your NRA-ILA Daily Alert 1-21-2017Firearms and firearms accessory makers increasingly consider women buyers -The PK380 handgun by Walther Arms Inc. has a single stack, making it smaller, lighter and easier to conceal than other models. It has the kind of characteristics that women buyers seek.

 
 
LEGAL & LEGISLATION HUNTING
Illinois: Senate Committee to Hear Suppressor Legalization Bill Next Week
On Wednesday, January 25, the Senate Criminal Law Committee is scheduled to consider Senate Bill 50.
 
 
LEGAL & LEGISLATION
New Hampshire: House Committee to Hear Outrageous Anti-Gun Bill Next Week
On Tuesday, January 24 at 10:00am, the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee is scheduled to hear House Bill 350, anti-self-defense legislation containing unwarranted pitfalls for law-abiding gun owners.
 
 
LEGAL & LEGISLATION
SB 48 & HB 50 Update: Gun Control Bills Receive Committee Referrals in New Mexico House & Senate
Ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s national gun control group Everytown continues to mislead lawmakers that these two bills simply close the non-existent “gun show loophole” and regulate online firearms sales.  In fact, these measures are far more expansive.
 
WASHINGTON POST
7th Circuit strikes ban on target practice by minors, and near-ban on firing ranges
People younger than 18 have a Second Amendment right to target practice, with adult supervision. Broad bans on the location of firing ranges are unconstitutional. On these points, all three judges of a 7th Circuit panel agree, in the newly decided Ezell II.
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anti-gun Researchers: Trump win alters conversation on gun control research agenda
The researchers, from dozens of universities, met at a conference on gun violence just days after the November election. They had fully anticipated discussing a very different outcome and opportunities for policy changes during a presidency of Democrat Hillary Clinton, said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health and organizer of the Nov. 14 event.
 
SPOKESMAN REVIEW
Washington: House proposal would require semi-automatic owners obtain annual licenses, complete gun safety course
Washington residents who want to own, buy or sell a semi-automatic assault rifle would have to obtain an annual license from a local law enforcement agency under a proposal introduced this week in the House.
 
VT DIGGER
Vermont: Guns Again?
Recently a constituent said she couldn’t understand why I was against universal background checks for gun transfers. It seemed like an ideal opening to demonstrate how I respond to proposed legislation.
 
SACRAMENTO BEE
For first time in history, California dealers sell more than a million guns in a single year
Pass a new gun control law, watch gun sales explode until the law takes effect.That pattern has played out several times over the years in California, but never so much as in 2016, related largely to a spike in sales as buyers rushed to beat a ban on certain rifles, new figures from the state Department of Justice show.
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW TELEGRAPH
New Mexico: NRA takes issue with proposed gun legislation
The National Rifle Association has its sights set on two bills before the New Mexico Legislature that it believes will make transfers of private gun ownership and even temporary possession transfers impractically complicated.
 
HERALD-DISPATCH
West Virginia: Proposed gun ban on Huntington property stays in committee
Huntington City Council’s Public Safety Committee opted to take no immediate action on a proposed ordinance that could potentially restrict firearms in all city-owned and -operated buildings.
 
NORTHJERSEY.COM
Pennsylvania: Proposed Ramsey gun range draws opposition
A Pennsylvania gun range safety officer has proposed building a 60,620-square-foot indoor firing range in the borough, a facility he said would be unique to the state for its size and scope.
 
 
 
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