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Legislative Report #13

New York State Senate May Consider Numerous Anti-Gun Bills!

Registration Scheme Postponed Once Again in Albany County

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• Federal agents hunt for guns, one house at a time
ATF agents are stepping up enforcement activities in the region near the Mexican border. Tactics include questioning the neighbors of gun buyers and searching gun buyer's homes.
• Virginia: Pre-emption law invalidates local Right-to-Carry ban
Isle of Wight county likely will repeal a new ordinance that prohibits concealed weapons from being taken into public parks and recreational facilities. State law says that local governments can't adopt ordinances controlling the use, sale, possession or transportation of firearms.
• Arizona: Right-to-Carry bill goes to Governor
Arizona bar and restaurant owners are waiting to see if Governor Jan Brewer signs the bill that would allow law-abiding citizens to carry a gun into a restaurant or bar. Marc Peagler, who owns the Silver Spur Saloon in Cave Creek, is all for the bill. "I favor the law because there are examples all across the United States of concealed carry laws doing more good than harm, by leaps and bounds," Peagler told KTAR.
• Invigorate interest in outdoor sports by passing on tradition to youths
Delaware hunting license sales have declined nearly 30 percent since 1982, and the number of licensed hunters throughout the United States is following a similar trend. One of the main reasons for declining numbers of hunters and participants in outdoors sports is that fewer young people are being introduced to hunting, fishing and shooting sports.
• Johnny Depp wants to teach his kids to handle guns
Johnny Depp is keen on teaching his children to handle guns. The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star, who learnt shooting at the age of six in Kentucky where he grew up, wants to pass on his experience to his kids.
• Japan: Handling unloaded rifle during TV broadcast leads to charges
Shiga prefectural police regard the incident, in which a hunter with a gun permit allowed TV personality Noburo Harada, 57, to momentarily handle the rifle during the show, as a serious breach of a law concerning the storage and management of firearms So much so, in fact, that on June 12, the prefectural police referred the case to prosecutors. As a result, the hunter, aged 49, along with a 60 year old TV producer and a 37 year old director of the show, could face charges of violating the swords and firearms control law.
• Arizona Legislature Sends Three Self-Defense Bills to Governor Brewer
• Virginia: New right-to-carry law takes effect today
Completing training for a concealed weapons permit is now possible online or by video, under a new law that takes effect today. The measure covers applicants for any firearms training or safety course or class, including an electronic, video, or online course, conducted by a state-certified or National Rifle Association-certified firearms instructor, the law says.
• Arizona: House approves bill allowing guns in bars
The Arizona House has approved a bill to allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol.
• Georgia: Cost of right-to-carry permit to rise
Starting July 1st, it'll cost you more to get a right-to-carry permit in Georgia. The state is raising its fees at a time when more and more people are looking into getting a permit.
• North Carolina: New laws include license free hunting for military
State residents serving active military duty and home on leave can hunt or fish without a license.
• South Africa: License may be valid, but firearm is gone
Gun owners from across Cape Town have been streaming into dealerships in the vain hope of retrieving the weapons they either sold or handed over voluntarily, in the wake of a Pretoria High Court ruling that the old licenses are still valid. But police have warned that this does not mean that people who handed in their guns can now retrieve them, even though they have not yet been destroyed.
• Tennessee: Cities ban guns in local parks
Local governments and advocates for firearms owners are gearing up for a summer face off over how far to take a new state law that lets people with carry permits bring handguns into parks.
• Kentucky: Pastor holds guns-in-church service
Some gun owners proudly wore their weapons into a Louisville, Ky., church Saturday. The "Bring Your Gun to Church Day" was an idea to celebrate guns and God.
• Kansas Attorney General Moves to Recognize 'Non-Resident' Carry Permits

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