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NRA cheers Leslie Rutledge on concealed carry expansion

The National Rifle Association has issued a news release cheering Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge for joining other Republican state lawyers in supporting federal legislation expanding concealed carry rights nationwide.
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Trump's latest: a 'Second Amendment' solution to Hillary

Today, Donald Trump offered the Second Amendment as the only way to stop Hillary Clinton judicial appointees should she be elected president.
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Poll: Register gun owners, not Muslims

Vox reports on polling that says a majority supports registration of gun owners, but not Muslims (though 40 percent would have a registry for Muslims, versus 21 percent for Christians and 19 percent for Jews.)

House approves bill to force guns on college campuses

Rep. Charlie Collins' bill to force Arkansas colleges and universities to allow staff members to carry concealed weapons on campus passed the House today 66-25.
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Republicans blast James Lee Witt over legislation co-sponsored by Republican

Republicans smear Democrat James Lee Witt because of his endorsement by congressman who's co-sponsored, with a Republican, legislation to close the gun show background check loophole,

NRA folds to Texas gun toters, apologizes for criticism

The NRA has apologized for its statement criticizing invasions of Texas chain restaurants by groups armed with semi-automatic rifles as displays of support for open carry of firearms.
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Shocking! Even the NRA has limits on gun nuttery UPDATED

Even the NRA has a limit on gun foolishness. It has issued a strong statement about the bully boys in the open carry movement who've been making a show of their semi-automatic firepower in Texas chain restaurants. The NRA said gun toters had "crossed the line from enthusiasm to downright foolishness" in their restaurant displays. It warned of political backlash.

Corporate American develops backbone; backs down open carry posses

Mother Jones reports that Sonic and Chili's outlets in Texas refused to knuckle under to intimidation tactics of open carry gun advocates. Growing backlash at the intimidation tactics appears to have backed the gun toters down.
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The real meaning of the 2nd Amendment

Joe Nocera in the New York Times, prompted by another killing spree, draws from a new book on the 2nd Amendment to explain how the NRA and politicians have bent the amendment all out of shape of what the founding fathers intended — a tool to guarantee a "well-regulated militia." It was not, he writes, intended to allow an individual right to trump the public good.

Latest GOP attorney general ad touches all the base's bases

The newest TV ad from Republican Leslie Rutledge, a candidate for attorney general, touches all the bases. She's a "Christian, pro-life, gun-carryin', conservative woman" and she'll fight the "liberal agenda" of President Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare.
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Can gun money carry the Republican primary for attorney general?

Why is a shadowy out-of-state rightwing group pouring big money into a Republican primary race for attorney general? What little is known about the corporate roots of the organization suggests it's about more than one candidate's support for a Stand Your Ground law. But that's bad enough. And the spending is big.

Georgia gets a 'guns everywhere' law

Georgia gets a "guns everywhere" law and it naturally raises the question of whether Arkansas may someday follow suit. Several gun issues are bubbling in Arkansas already.
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