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Liberal Gun Control Bill C-21 Passes House of Commons

The House of Commons has passed Bill C-21 after third reading, a bill that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino called “the most significant gun control legislation in Canada in a generation.” In a statement on May 18 following passage of the bill, Mendicino said the legislation would “strengthen the national ban against AR-15-style firearms.” “It’s…


North Carolina to End Pistol Purchase Permit System After GOP Lawmakers Override Democrat Governor’s Veto

Republican North Carolina lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill repealing the state’s pistol purchase permit system, enabling the repeal effort to proceed. The Republican-controlled North Carolina House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 41 earlier this month. The bill, which passed in both the House and Senate on party-line votes, repeals a…


Biden Uses Sandy Hook Shooting Anniversary to Urge Passage of Gun Control Legislation

On the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, President Joe Biden said that Americans should have “societal guilt” for not appropriately addressing gun violence and called for an assault weapons ban. Biden declared Dec. 14, 2022, a day of remembrance and opened a statement by saying, “Ten years ago today at Sandy Hook…


Conservative MP Removed From House for Accusing Liberal MP of ‘Lying’ About Gun Control Bill

Conservative MP Raquel Dancho was ejected from the House of Commons on Dec. 8, after she accused a Liberal MP of lying during question period and refused to apologize. Vance Badawey, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of Indigenous Services, said the Conservatives have been obstructing testimony at the House public safety committee regarding the…


Gov. Desantis Signs Law That Bans Gun Regulation by Local Governments

Local government legal representatives filed a motion last month asking the 1st District Court of Appeal to transfer primary points in the case to the Supreme Court, two weeks after the Tallahassee-based appeals court upheld the 2011 law’s constitutionality.


HR 8: A Look at Democrats’ Universal Background Checks Bill

House Democrats have passed The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, HR. 8 which will require background checks for all transfers (sales, loans, etc.) of firearms with some minor exceptions. Advocates for gun control say the measure will make the public safer, while opponents say criminals and murders do not heed gun laws and the…


Advocates of Gun Rights and Gun Control React to New Firearms Bill

The federal government proposed new gun control legislation Tuesday that would introduce the long-anticipated buy-back program for recently barred firearms. Bill C-21, which comes nine months after the Liberal government announced a ban on the use, sale, and importation of “assault-style” weapons, will also allow municipalities to ban handguns, and increases criminal penalties for gun…