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DAILY ALERT FOR Monday, April 20, 2015

DAILY ALERT FOR Monday, April 20, 2015
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LEGAL & LEGISLATION
Illinois: Radical Ivory Ban Bill to be Heard in Senate Committee
This week, the Illinois Senate Environment and Conservation Committee is scheduled to hear Senate Bill 1858 for a second time. After being heard in March, this legislation was postponed pending the filing of amendments.
LEGAL & LEGISLATION
Oregon: “Universal” Background Check Bill Scheduled for Hearing This Week
Senate Bill 941, legislation which seeks to expand background checks to private transfers, is scheduled to be heard in the House Rules Committee on Wednesday, April 22, at 1:00 p.m., in Hearing Room 50.
LEGAL & LEGISLATION HUNTING
Texas: House Approves HB 910, NRA-Backed Open Carry Legislation
On Friday, the Texas House gave tentative approval to House Bill 910, NRA-supported open carry legislation sponsored by state Rep. Larry Phillips (R-Sherman), on a 96 to 35 vote. HB 910 removes the requirement that Concealed Handgun Licensees (CHL) keep their handguns concealed and gives them the option of carrying them either wholly or partially visible in a belt or shoulder holster.
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LEGAL & LEGISLATION
Maine: “Constitutional Carry” Work Session Scheduled for Friday
This Friday, April 24, at 9:00 am, the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will hold a work session in State House Room 436 on permitless/”constitutional carry,” as well as other pro- and anti-gun bills. It is critical that you contact members of the CJPS Committee immediately and urge them to vote in accordance to NRA’s recommendations below:
 

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LEGAL & LEGISLATION
Massachusetts: Ivory Ban Legislation Pending in Legislature
S.440, sponsored by Senator Jason Lewis (D-Winchester), and its companion, H.1275, sponsored by Representative Lori Ehrlich (D-Marblehead), are two misguided bills that would prohibit the sale, offer for sale, lease, purchase, trade, barter, distribution or transfer of possession of ivory or ivory product in Massachusetts, absent limited exceptions.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Gun rights tops gun control in major public opinion shift
Exactly two years after President Obama’s bid for gun control following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting died in Congress, a new poll has discovered a huge shift in public opinion to backing Second Amendment gun rights and away from controlling gun ownership. The reason: Americans now believe having a gun is the best way to protect against crime, 63 percent to 30 percent.

THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Media shoot first, correct later on NRA
You’d be hard-pressed to find an issue more misrepresented and manipulated by the American media than guns.For example, when this year’s National Rifle Association convention started at Nashville’s Music City Center on April 10, The New York Times ran a carefully timed piece discrediting the event because, as the editorial board wrote, “seventy-thousand people are expected to attend” and “not one of them will be allowed to come armed with guns that can actually shoot.”

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Texas on the verge of allowing ‘open carry’ of handguns
Supporters said they were upholding constitutional rights and allowing greater liberty for gun owners that was long overdue. Though Texans can already openly carry long guns, such as rifles, the state has long banned the practice for handguns. The bill would align Texas with 44 other states that allow some open carry of handguns.

THE OREGONIAN
New Oregon gun law will accomplish nothing
It’s hard to tell what Americans love more — guns or gun laws. We have plenty of both. That should say something about how ineffective gun laws are. Nevertheless, we will soon have yet another gun law here in Oregon.

THE STATESMAN JOURNAL
Oregon: Recall petitions over gun control put pressure on Dems
With Oregon Democrats moving forward on a bill to require background checks for private gun sales, the potential political backlash is becoming apparent.

THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
Oklahoma: Gun ban shot down
District Judge Thad Balkman ruled Friday that the city of Norman cannot enforce the proposed gun ban set forth by the Norman Music Alliance during this year’s Norman Music Festival.

THE STAR TRIBUNE
Minnesota: Fairly quietly, Minnesota House OKs silencers for guns
The Minnesota House overwhelmingly passed four gun rights bills Thursday, including a measure that would allow residents to own firearm silencers, also known as “suppression devices.”

THE BOSTON GLOBE
A gun license surge in Mass.
The number of “license to carry” gun permits issued in Massachusetts spiked last year in anticipation of last summer’s passage of a sweeping gun control bill that tightened the state’s already strict firearms laws, according to a Globe analysis of state firearms data.

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