Gun Legislation and Law Enforcement
In the Gun Legislation & Law Enforcement section you’ll find news reports and expert articles about the bills proposed regarding gun laws and the most up-to date news on the legislation affecting gun owners and law enforcement.
The LEOSA Reform Act would expand where current and retired officers can carry a concealed firearm
Many new restrictions will impact law enforcement officers
No matter how much training, experience and proven good judgment you have, some people will never be comfortable with an old sheepdog being armed
The bill would make all teachers eligible for the program if they volunteer, undergo a psychological evaluation and are trained by police
Officials are debating on statewide guidelines on when officers can use force and requiring that every LEO train in ways to avoid opening fire
A Florida woman traveled to Colorado to possibly carry out a Columbine-inspired attack, which ended in her suicide. Could red flag laws have prevented this?
The group is going against lawmakers and sheriffs who say they won’t enforce a new law that requires background checks on all gun sales
California lawmakers advanced a first-in-the-nation measure restricting when police can use deadly force
Weld County is one many Colorado counties to have declared itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary County”
A California company that sells mail-order firearms is being sued by New Jersey’s attorney general
LEOSA, passed in 2004, hasn’t quite worked as intended. Here’s what you had to say about the law, as well as the reform bill that’s intended to fix it
The bill aims to fix many of the issues with LEOSA
More than a dozen states have laws on the books that allow local law enforcement to seize firearms from people diagnosed as mentally ill
New Zealand has banned all assault weapons less than a week after the massacre that took 50 lives
The governor signed a bill expanding mandatory background checks on firearm sales
The boy got the gun from the trooper’s locked police vehicle outside their home and shot his father in the buttocks
Just as you wouldn’t operate a motor vehicle without liability insurance, you don’t want to carry a firearm without insurance either
The decrease comes as fewer people are crossing the border illegally and after the agency overhauled how force should be deployed at the border
Lawmakers are considering gun safety initiatives that would allow judges to authorize removing guns from people who may be suicidal or bent on violence
The judge ruled that staff who are training to carry concealed weapons on campuses don’t need many training hours
Under a new bill, Oklahoma residents will be able to openly carry firearms without a background check or training
“The way the bill is written, it is impossible to comply,” the sheriff said. “I can’t send (my deputies) on a suicide mission.”
More than 75 percent of people in Illinois who received gun license revocations in 2018 ignored the notices
The gunman was issued a firearm owners’ ID card after a background check failed to show a 1995 aggravated assault conviction
House Democrats said they will push for “sensible” gun safety laws the public is demanding
The school board voted unanimously to prevent officers from carrying weapons in school during the day
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up its first guns rights case in nine years
Washington joined a handful of other states to ban anyone under 21 from buying semi-automatic rifles
Homicides dropped by 15 percent, shootings by 18 percent; that continues a trend from 2016, when violence reached levels not seen since the 1990s
The laws ease criminal sentences, tighten gun restrictions and address gender discrimination and sexual harassment
Licenses could be denied if investigators uncover threats of violence or terrorism or the use of racial or ethnic slurs
Sioux City police say that “toy” firearms are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from actual guns and are being used more by criminals
A provision of the law aimed at limiting the number of rounds a person could have in a magazine was declared unconstitutional by two federal courts
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