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Perhaps emboldened by a rare victory over the gun lobby last week, a group of liberal senators introduced legislation Wednesday to prevent people convicted of felonies overseas from owning firearms.
The proposal attempts to close a loophole created by a 2005 Supreme Court decision, which found that the prohibition on gun ownership applies only to felons [...]

It’s no Washington secret that lawmakers voting against the the nation’s powerful gun lobby will likely suffer the National Rifle Association’s wrath come election time. But, as evidenced in Colorado today, there can also be political consequences of voting with the NRA.
In large ads published in Wednesday’s Denver Post and Boulder Camera, Tom Mauser, the [...]

As the Senate Judiciary Committee readies for today’s vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, conservative judicial activists are taking stock of the battle that demanded so much of their energy for more than two months.

As the battle over gun reform has raged on Capitol Hill this year, it’s become ever-more clear that this is more a regional issue than a partisan one. Indeed, 20 Democrats voted last week in support of a proposal forcing states to honor conceal-carry permits issued by other states. And a House bill granting Washington, [...]

Today’s vote to kill Sen. John Thune’s (R-S.D.) bill allowing the interstate transfer of concealed weapons permits broke down largely along predictable lines, with Republicans and rural-state Democrats voting in favor of the measure and more liberal Democrats opposing it.
A glaring exception to that rule, however, was Sen. Russ Feingold (D), a Wisconsin liberal who [...]

The Senate shot down legislation Wednesday that would have effectively scrapped local and state conceal and carry laws.

After I wrote my earlier posts about how the National Rifle Association opposes the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and explaining the “incorporation” debate that dominated much of the Second Amendment discussion at the hearing, I got a note from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, whose concerns were decidedly NOT [...]

Although the National Rifle Association has — at least officially — stayed out of this fight until now (though judging from some senators’ heavy questioning on gun issues, it was clearly weighing in behind the scenes), this afternoon the group issued a statement saying it would oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the [...]

The National Rifle Association today informed Senate lawmakers that the group has “very serious concerns” with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ruling history on gun-owner rights. In a letter (pdf) to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Chris Cox, the NRA’s top lobbyist, said that the cases adjudicated by Sotomayor [...]

A five-year-old law restricts Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ability to share gun trafficking information.