New Hampshire colleges would lose their right to prohibit guns on their campuses under a bill before the House.
The bill would give the Legislature control over regulating weapons and would prohibit entities like colleges from banning weapons on their campuses. After Republicans took control of the House and Senate last year, lawmakers voted to ease gun regulations, including allowing them in the Statehouse complex.

Since LU announced the new firearms policy in late November, 64 students, faculty and staff have applied for permission to carry guns on campus, according to university officials. Liberty officials would not disclose how many applications had been approved, but said they received requests from 26 students and 38 faculty and staff members by semester’s end.

The Green Bay Gun Show has been attracting thousands of gun collectors and hunting enthusiasts for years, but the state’s concealed carry law triggered something new at this year’s show.
The gun show normally boasts dozens of vendors offering all types of guns and hunting supplies, but this year the show also attracted vendors offering concealed carry courses.

According to the report presented by the Council on the implementation of Common Position 2008/944/CFSP during 2010 and the end of 2011, the European Union and its Member States have continued to support the ongoing development of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) led by the United Nations. Within the activities to support the preparation of the United Nations Conference on the ATT, the European Union and its Member States have held regular meetings in order to share views and coordinate positions.

An East Tennessee woman may have been trying to do the right thing when she asked to check her loaded handgun outside the Sept. 11 memorial in New York City and was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm.

It has been said that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. City and federal authorities in Washington, D.C., which has some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation, reinforced that point this month.

President Obama keeps pushing for gun control. “I just want you to know that we are working on [gun control]. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar,” President Obama told Sarah Brady, the former president of the Brady Campaign, this past spring.
His push as been quiet but relentless.

Just this past week Obama signaled that he was going to just ignore two new parts of the 2012 Omnibus Spending bill. Although he signed the spending bill into law, he simultaneously issued a so called “signing statement,” a note that presidents have started attaching to legislation stating how they interpret the law they are signing or whether they believe part of it is unconstitutional.

In any large population (e.g., 240,000) there will be at least a small percentage who over a period of time are found guilty of some crimes. This does not mean that that population as a whole is dangerous. It would have been useful to compare the conviction rates of North Carolinians who have carry licenses with the convictions rates of those who do not. I suspect that the non licensee crime rate would be much higher, especially for violent gun crimes.
In a 2009 article in the Connecticut Law Review, I collected data from Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. (The state data begin on page 564 of the article.) The data show that concealed carry licensees are much more law abiding than the general population, and that the rate of gun misuse of any sort (let alone having something to do with violence in public place) is less than one in one thousand.

December holiday shoppers were not just interested in buying the hottest electronics and toys they also were purchasing record numbers of guns, according to the latest FBI figures on background checks required to buy firearms.