Anti-Gun Group Sues to Stop Concealed Firearms in National Parks and Wildlife Refuges

An anti-gun group is suing to stop a last-second Bush administration change that would allow Americans with state issued permits to carry a concealed firearm, to carry loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence sued the Interior Department in federal court on Tuesday.

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Philadelphia City Government Makes Mistake; Threatens to Revoke Gun Licenses

In 2005, when the [state] legislature amended the law governing licenses to carry firearms, the fee for a five-year license was increased from $19 to $25. The increase, channeled into accounts for license “modernization” and “validation,” is supposed to make it possible for even small municipalities to get state grants to buy cameras for making gun-permit photo IDs.
But Philadelphia has not been collecting the $6 increase, a fact brought home to permit-holders with a bracing letter this month from Lt. Lisa King, commander of the Police Department gun permits unit.

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NRA appeals Chicago handgun ruling

The NRA immediately appealed Shadur’s decision, and attorney Stephen Halbrook said the group is confident it will prevail in a higher court.

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Must be the week for 2A lawsuits

A ways back, Bob Barr filed suit for a Georgia FFL (Adventure Outdoor Sports) targeted by Mayor Bloomberg’s “stings,” alleging that Bloomberg had slandered the owner. Bloomberg’s guys got it removed to Federal court, and argued NY law, giving public officials a wide privilege against defamation suits, should apply. (BTW, those are two different issues. A Georgia court, or its federal district court, may still apply New York law under certain conditions). The federal district court ruled that New York law did not apply, and Bloomberg appealed.

Today the 11th Circuit US Circuit Court of Appeals handed Bloomberg his mayorial hindquarters. The news report is confusing, but apparently the appeals court ordered that the US district court should return the lawsuit to State court.

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New York Governor and DEC Chairman Set to Close the Reynolds Game Farm!

Governor David Paterson (D) and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Chairman Pete Grannis bamboozle sportsmen and taxpayers: Claiming across-the-board spending cuts, the DEC has decided to shutdown the Reynolds Game Farm, a last-of-its-kind preserve in New York where pheasants have been bred and released for hunting since 1927.

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