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Lawmakers in the North Carolina House and Senate remain at a standstill over the state budget
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 @ 10:59 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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"Crossover" is a critical legislative deadline
Published: Sunday, May 11th, 2025 @ 7:18 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Contact your State of NC elected officials
Published: Friday, May 2nd, 2025 @ 3:26 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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A federal judge will allow a Second Amendment lawsuit to proceed against Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden. The suit challenges the way McFadden addresses mental health checks for concealed handgun permits.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 4:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has denied a request to take up a case involving legal challenges to government agency decisions.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, Sen. Danny Britt, R-Robeson, and Republican state senators held a press conference highlighting bills that will expand gun rights ahead of the bills being debated in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2023 @ 4:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For the second time in two years, the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s office, led by Sheriff Garry McFadden, is being sued over delays in processing concealed-handgun and pistol-purchase permit applications.
Published: Sunday, December 25th, 2022 @ 3:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul is championing the Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA), which critics say is burdensome and an infringement on numerous constitutional rights.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 3:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed expansive gun legislation on Friday night banning people from carrying guns in a litany of “sensitive locations,” including Times Square and churches throughout New York.
Published: Thursday, July 14th, 2022 @ 8:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Fresh off a Second Amendment rebuke from the U.S. Supreme Court, liberal New York lawmakers are seeking to use the social media accounts of handgun permit applicants to screen their worthiness.
Published: Thursday, July 14th, 2022 @ 6:44 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The lawyers who won a major Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court this week got even less than a pat on the back from the white-shoe law firm they work for – they were forced to quit.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 10:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives wants colleagues to override the governor’s veto of a bill ending school mask mandates. It would mark the first time in a year that lawmakers have tried to overturn a gubernatorial veto.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The demand for firearms, starting with an application for a gun permit, remains high, though local sheriffs’ offices are struggling to keep up.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 8:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During a 2020 legislative session immersed in financial doubt and civil unrest, Republican lawmakers flailed against Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto power, fighting executive orders they say hurt North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, July 9th, 2020 @ 2:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2020 @ 9:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wake County Sheriff’s Office will resume accepting and processing applications for pistol permits consistent with N.C. General Statutes, a Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday, March 31.
Published: Saturday, April 4th, 2020 @ 2:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wake County Sheriff’s Office made an extremely poor decision to suspend pistol permits until April 30.
Published: Friday, April 3rd, 2020 @ 2:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wake County government, under pressure from gun-rights groups, gun owners, and worried residents, has amended a stay-at-home order making it clear gun shops will be allowed to operate in the county.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 12:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals determined the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office violated a Vietnam veteran’s due process rights by denying his application for a concealed handgun permit.
Published: Saturday, October 19th, 2019 @ 12:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 11:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Fletcher was unaware he committed a felony in New Jersey, which does not recognize any state law allowing residents to carry firearms. Gov. Chris Christie eventually pardoned Fletcher of the illegal gun possession charges, which could have put him in prison for five years
Published: Sunday, December 3rd, 2017 @ 11:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beginning Monday, August 15th, individuals wanting to apply for a handgun permit (to purchase a handgun) will be able do so online by going to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office web page
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2016 @ 9:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Don't laugh, The army trained for combat using Daisy BB Guns.
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 11:20 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Earlier in the month, Cook communicated his strong opposition to Herring and urged the Virginia Attorney General to reverse his decision.
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 2:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Durham County officials are awaiting a ruling from the state on what to do with tens of thousands of gun owners’ personal information now that the county’s Jim Crow-era gun registry has been repealed in a “very large” legislative victory.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The media is having a field day talking about the SECOND mass shooting in five years at Texas' Fort Hood. Is the war to blame? How did this guy get a gun? Could the Army have done more?
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 6:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The hottest trend these days among mainstream media-types is to publish names and addresses of people who have concealed-carry permits. WRAL and a newspaper in NY tried it -- and got burned.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Flag-waving, placard-toting gun rights advocates from around the state and Virginia rallied in front of the North Carolina legislative building...
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 4:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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