S.H. Blannelberry

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy wants to make it dramatically more expensive for residents to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

NRA News commentator Colion Noir appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Needless to say, there was some gun talk.

Casey Cagle and Brian Kemp vowed this week to stop online payment processors from discriminating against Georgia gun companies.

“Intuit didn’t care if I sold pool cues, or ax handles, or closet rods, or steel pipes, or big flashlights but they were all wound up about selling police batons to police officers,” said Sean DePriest, the president of National Police Supply in an email to GunsAmerica.

The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) processed 2,002,992 queries in May 2018, approximately three percent more than the all-time May record of 1,942,677 checks set last year. This continues the streak as March 2018 and April 2018 were also record-setting.

“One grocery store doesn’t get so big that it lends and borrows and buys and sells from nearly every other grocery store in the country. These banks do. A grocery store also doesn’t need or get an $812.3 billion bailout from the American taxpayers,” added Kennedy.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors has 1,400 members representing cities across the country with a population of 30,000 or more people. This week the bipartisan group went to Boston for its annual meeting, during which its members passed numerous gun control resolutions.

The off-duty FBI agent who lost control of his gun earlier this month while breakdancing and backflipping at a bar in Colorado is being charged, authorities announced Tuesday. 

“We are trying to get the same question answered,” said King in an email to GunsAmerica. “Unlike other states there are no public hearings on these bills and we have to rely on them answering questions. Since this is a Cuomo bill I expect the worst.”