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The Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee on March 26 narrowly blocked a controversial proposal that would have allowed concealed carry permit holders to bring guns into businesses without the property ...

California lawmakers failed early Thursday to push through a set of rules shoring up the state’s concealed carry gun laws following a Supreme Court decision that weakened permitting restrictions. The ...

An effort to eliminate the need for adults who can legally own a gun to obtain permits to carry concealed handguns failed to advance out of its first committee on Tuesday. House Bill 83, sponsored by ...

The California Legislature rarely passes up an opportunity to place new restrictions on firearms, or stick a finger in the eye of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority. But in one of the ...