State Representative David Gowan (R-30) is preparing to introduce NRA-backed legislation that would allow hunters in Arizona to use lawfully-possessed suppressors (also referred to as silencers) on firearms for hunting.

State Representative David Gowan (R-30) is preparing to introduce NRA-backed legislation that would allow hunters in Arizona to use lawfully-possessed suppressors (also referred to as silencers) on firearms for hunting.

After days of calls, emails, tweets, comments and posts, I finally bought the exact gun I wanted, the two-tone version of the Sig Sauer P229 9mm. I’m so excited to shoot my new purchase, but in the nation’s capital, it’s not that simple. Buying a gun doesn’t mean you get to have the gun.

Arizona legislators said Monday they’re jumping into the review of a flawed federal gun-smuggling sting operation because it took place within their state.

Records released almost three weeks after Sarah McKinley shot and killed an intruder as he broke into her Blanchard home support police estimates that it took lawmen 14 minutes to reach the 18-year-old mom after she called 911.

Oak Park is looking at possible new firearm regulations, and that has piqued the interest of the Illinois State Rifle Association.
Oak Park’s Board of Health on Tuesday night will hold a forum that will focus on the future sale and possession of firearms. The forum will “ultimately lead to a recommendation to the Village Board for possible action,” a notice from the village said.

Lawmakers voted last year to allow guns in bars and restaurants, but the Republican-controlled legislature might not be done with bills that loosen restrictions on carrying guns in Ohio.
Rep. Ron Maag, R-Lebanon, is expected this week to add two gun bills to the mix, and both are drawing opposition from law enforcement. One would allow people to bring a gun to the Statehouse parking garage, and the other no longer would require people to tell law officers during a traffic stop that they are carrying a gun.

Having won approval of a ban on the open carrying of handguns in public, state Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Canada-Flintridge) proposed Monday to extend the prohibition to long guns.

Tomorrow, January 25, the state Senate Courts of Justice Committee will hear a number of pro- and anti-gun bills that could have a major effect on the Second Amendment rights of all Virginians.   

On Wednesday morning, the Regulations Committee of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission is planning to propose an amendment that would allow suppressors on firearms while hunting game.