Austin Bailey will be along with more details but the House adjourned today without an effort to extract the stand-your-ground/license-to-kill legislation from the committee that refused to grant a do-pass yesterday.

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Rep. Aaron Pilkington, one of the sponsors, apparently is going to see if he can prevail on committee members to reconsider. There’s also some conflicting news about whether a gun owners group, which opposed the bill in committee, had sent a conflicting signal today.

Pilkington apparently plans to caucus with Republicans who didn’t support the bill.

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Sen. Bob Ballinger, a lead sponsor, circulated a letter from a national official of Gun Owners of America expressing support for the bill. The Arkansas chapter, however, posted this on its Facebook page this morning.

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