Jeremy Alford
Capitol Correspondent
DailyComet.com
 
 
BATON ROUGE — State Rep. Ernest Wooton, the former sheriff of Plaquemines Parish whose district once included portions of lower Lafourche, will again be pushing concealed weapons as a policy issue in this year’s session.
But it won’t be in the same form that garnered the Belle Chasse Republican headlines around the state in [...]

By Olympia Meola
Richmond Times Dispatch
 
 
The Republican-dominated House of Delegates advanced a slew of Second Amendment-related bills yesterday.
They ranged from a bill that would repeal the one-gun-a-month limit on handgun purchases, to shielding applicants for concealed-weapon permits, to protecting some Virginia-made guns and ammunition from potential federal regulation.
In all, about a dozen gun bills cleared a [...]

Milwaukee – Wisconsin
Journal Sentinel
Two prominent law enforcement officials are ready to back Wisconsinites’ ability to carry concealed handguns with a permit if the law includes tough gun regulations that have been hard to obtain.
We have long been opposed to concealed carry for Wisconsin. But an argument, being made by Milwaukee Police [...]

By Andrea Watkins
MyFoxHouston.com
 
 
HOUSTON – A would-be robber is shot to death by a tire store owner in north Houston, and officers are searching for three suspects who got away.
The shooting took place after 8 p.m. Wednesday at the 11100 block of Bauman Road.
Police say four men tried to stage a robbery at the El Mante [...]

by BRAD WATSON
WFAA-TV
 
DENTON – Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have taken up most of the attention in the fight for the Republican nomination for governor, but gun-toting Debra Medina says she should be heard, too.
Medina, who is running for governor as a Republican, courts the Libertarian-Tea Party wing of the GOP, and [...]

By ERIK SCHELZIG
MyWay.com
 
 
 
 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
A change in leadership at the state Capitol helped open the doors to the [...]

By James Gleason
The Lakeland Times
 

Original photo from ChristianGunOwner.com

It has become apparent over the last 20 years that the people of this state have forgotten their very rights of which this country was founded.
In this coming year, the gun rights advocates in this state are uniting in a movement that will campaign against any state representative, [...]