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
Cops and citizens could become victims of these new statutes if due process and other fundamental liberties are violated
The bill was vetoed twice by former governor Jerry Brown
Publix is joining a growing number of retailers in asking customers not to openly carry firearms in its stores, even if state laws allow it
Critics decry it as a scare tactic that lumps people arrested while carrying or even standing near a gun with those who have pulled them out and used them
A friend of the Dayton gunman who killed nine people told federal agents he bought him body armor, a gun accessory and a 100-round magazine earlier this year
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said there’s “a growing wave of support on both sides of the aisle” for the red-flag plan
Gov. Mike DeWine said Ohio needs to do more while balancing people’s rights to own firearms
San Luis Obispo Chief Deanna Cantrell revealed her mistake in a video on the department’s Facebook page
The lawsuit is the latest case to challenge a federal law shielding gun manufacturers from liability
Most agencies do issue retiring officers the credentials that are required to carry a firearm under LEOSA, but it’s not always the case
Gov. Ralph Northam is summoning lawmakers back to the state Capitol to consider a package of gun-control legislation in the wake of last week’s mass shooting
Police say a suppressor was attached to the handgun the gunman used to kill a dozen people
Lawmakers are on the brink of not passing any new gun restrictions or firearm storage laws a year after the tragedy
A man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of violating a state law that outlaws the manufacture, possession or sales of assault weapons
The new rules update existing gun-surrender requirements for people under restraining orders, adding a requirement for LE to serve the orders
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
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- Tenn. governor signs bill allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons in schools
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- Chicago gun laws not as strict as they once were
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