A bill that would enable Kansans to carry concealed firearms without requiring training or a background check won initial approval in the Kansas Senate on Wednesday. Senate Bill 45 would make Kansas a “constitutional carry” state, meaning citizens would not need a permit to carry a hidden firearm. The bill would maintain the current permit process for[…]...
(Reuters) – Kansas residents would be allowed to carry concealed weapons without permits under a proposed measure endorsed by a majority of state senators, the bill’s author said on Thursday. Kansas would join Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming and Arizona as states that allow residents to carry concealed weapons statewide without a permit, according to the National Rifle Association,[…]...
TOPEKA, KAN. — Kansas is moving toward removing what some gun rights advocates see as its last major restriction on firearms, with the state Senate giving first-round approval Wednesday to a bill that would end a requirement for permits to carry concealed weapons. The Republican-dominated Senate’s voice vote advanced the measure to another, final vote Thursday, when[…]...
In the two years since former University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill students Annie Clark and Andrea Pino filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the case has set off a nationwide movement to take colleges to task for mishandling or ignoring sexual assault allegations. But another movement, championed by[…]...
This is not the column I expected to write.I intended to call for North Carolina state legislators to take a close look at our gun laws in light of the tragic shooting of the three bright young students in Chapel Hill on Feb. 10. I saw in the news stories that the accused murderer, Craig Stephen Hicks,[…]...
Rowan authorities seized pills and a weapon late last week after a driver was seen speeding and passing a car on Sherrills Ford Road. The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office charged Jesse Dean Ciancimino, 30, of the 1200 block of Miller Street, China Grove, with two counts of misdemeanor child abuse, aggressive driving, speeding, two counts of misdemeanor[…]...
Lionheart Industries is a young company; if the age of other companies can be used as comparison (such as Beretta or Colt) even Glock is still a young kid on the block. It’s probably a good thing then that I understand time in business is not a sure measure of a product so when I was given[…]...
Texas Senator John Cornyn has announced the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” today, a bill that will establish the same sort of “common sense” acceptance of concealed carry permits that everyone in the country currently enjoys for driver’s licenses. It would be utterly absurd to think that a drive from New York to Florida would require you[…]...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) – The Senate State Affairs Committee has introduced a bill that would allow people to carry concealed weapons outside city limits in Idaho without a permit. Republican Sen. Marv Hagedorn from Meridian told the panel Friday that his bill would also remove a rule that lets state legislators carry concealed guns without a permit.[…]...
A Texas Senate committee this week passed two bills that would permit the open carry of handguns in the state and allow firearms on college campuses, as a different southern community continues to mourn three Muslim individuals who were fatally shot near the campus of the University of North Carolina on Tuesday. The open carry bill would permit licensed Texans[…]...