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BOISE (AP) Legislation to enhance protections for gunmakers, sellers and weapons carriers during declared emergencies in Idaho headed to the governors desk on Wednesday.

The House voted 58-9 on Wednesday to approve the measure that alters the states disaster preparedness act by prohibiting the closing of gun-related businesses during emergencies.

Republican Gov. Brad Little issued a temporary stay-at-home order in early 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some workers and businesses were declared essential and allowed to continue, including gun businesses.

The new law would make sure they stay open under future governors. The legislation also prevents Idahos concealed weapons laws from being circumvented.

This is an essential bill to protect our citizens Second Amendment rights, said bill sponsor Rep. Judy Boyle in a statement after the vote. It recognizes the reality that self-defense is an absolutely essential business, and it protects lawful gun owners from illegitimate and unconstitutional seizures under false pretenses by an overreaching government.

The legislation also prevents Idahos concealed weapons laws from being circumvented, and that weapons used legally cant be confiscated during disasters. The bill also clarifies that the protections regarding firearms also cover ammunition, components and accessories.

Littles chief legal counsel has said the state is still under an active emergency declaration due to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing the state to get money from a disaster emergency account and giving Little flexibility to deploy the Idaho National Guard to help with health care.

He also said there are currently no restrictions, and there have been no restrictions on any rights or constitutional privileges.

The Senate approved the bill earlier this month on a 30-5 vote.

Boyle said the bill received support from the National Rifle Association, the Idaho Fraternal Order of Police, the Idaho Chiefs of Police Association and the Idaho Sheriffs Association.

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At the same time, it indicated that many kinds of gun regulations are permissible.

Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms, Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016, wrote for the majority.

The question the justices agreed to decide in Wednesdays case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, No. 20-843, was whether the states denial of petitioners applications for concealed-carry licenses for self-defense violated the Second Amendment.

But the issue of restricting guns in sensitive places got a lot of attention at Wednesdays argument. Chief Justice Roberts asked Mr. Clement, for instance, whether states could say youre not allowed to carry on a university campus.

He said, I think the answer to your question is yes.

Justice Kagan seemed to think that was an important concession. You know, anybody can walk around the N.Y.U. campus, she said, referring to New York Universitys many buildings in and around Greenwich Village.

Mr. Clement responded, to laughter, that N.Y.U. doesnt have much of a campus.

Justice Kagan disagreed, as did Justice Breyer. To my mind, he said, to more laughter, I think NY.U. does have a campus.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked about the masses of people who sometimes gather in Manhattan.

Cant we just say Times Square on New Years Eve is a sensitive place because now weve seen, you know, people are on top of each other? she said. Weve had experience with violence, so were making a judgment, its a sensitive place.

Ms. Underwood said that Times Square is, at least in the absence of a pandemic, always crowded. When commerce is in full swing, she said, Times Square almost every night is shoulder-to-shoulder people.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a plan to end gun violence. The fatal shooting of a police officer has gripped not only his city's residents but people over the United States.

This shooting is the result of the most consequential misinterpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution by the U.S. Supreme Court in American history.

A well-regulated militia means just that. Its well organized and practices gun use that is consistent with armed forces training.

But in the most controversial misinterpretation of the Second Amendment, the late Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the 2008 decision for the District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess firearms.

Mayor Adams is fighting not only gun violence. Hes fighting this enormous misinterpretation of the Second Amendment.

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Today, February 1st, theOregon Legislature begins the 2022legislative session.With the start of session, anti-gun legislators have again begun pushing policies that do nothing to prevent crime and only target law-abiding gun owners. NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters are encouraged to stay alert and contact their legislators in opposition to Senate Bill 1577.

Senate Bill 1577 would ban 3-D printed guns, however the billis so poorly written that it confuses undetectable firearms with 3D printed guns. This bill is the ultimate solution in search of a problem. Undetectable firearms have been banned under federal law for 30 years.This is nothing more than political theater. However, because of poor bill drafting, this bill could have serious unintended consequences for hobbyists who engage in the lawful home manufacture of firearms.

As in 2021, thelegislaturecan expect to see both pro and anti-gun agendas this year.Gun owners and sportsmen throughout the state must stay actively involved to defend freedom.

Your NRA will continue to fight to promote and protect your right to keep and bear arms and hunting heritage.Our members remain the most powerful political force in American history, and together, we will secure the Second Amendment for present and future generations.

Please continue to checkwww.NRAILA.organd your email inbox for NRA-ILA alerts on the latest action items. NRA-ILA will keep you updated on Second Amendment and hunting-related legislation.

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Perhaps the best example came in Duncan v. Bonta, a Second Amendment case decided last November by the en banc Ninth Circuit. VanDyke again found himself at odds with his colleagues, this time over Californias virtual ban on large-capacity magazines. Like other federal circuit courts that have considered similar laws, the majority applied intermediate scrutiny and upheld the restrictions. Judge Patrick Bumatay, one of the courts other conservative members, wrote a lengthy dissent explaining why he thought the Ninth Circuit should abandon the balance-of-interests approach. Instead, he argued, judges should evaluate whether restrictions are rooted in the text, tradition, and history of the Second Amendment.

VanDyke, writing separately, said he largely agreed with Bumatays dissent. So why write his own? He wanted to complain that he thought his colleagues were possessed maybeby a single-minded focus on ensuring that any panel opinions actually enforcing the Second Amendment are quickly reversed. In VanDykes eyes, the majority of our court distrusts gun owners and thinks the Second Amendment is a vestigial organ of their living constitution. He described mass shootings as a statistically very rare harm, akin to airplane crashes, and less lethal overall than car crashes, which kill far more people each year.

Though he engaged with the majoritys legal arguments, he also accused them of operating under their personal biases against guns, and urged the Supreme Court to tighten its Second Amendment rulings to deprive them of any discretion. Ultimately, it is not altogether surprising that federal judges, who have armed security protecting their workplace, home security systems supplied at taxpayer expense, and the ability to call an armed marshal to their upper-middle class home whenever they feel the whiff of a threat, would have trouble relating to why the average person might want a magazine with over ten rounds to defend herself, he opined.

This time, his attacks on his colleagues drew a response. In footnotes in her opinion for the court, Judge Susan Graber turned his comparisons to car crashes and plane crashes against him. A ban on large-capacity magazines cannot reasonably be considered a ban on firearms, she explained, any more than a ban on leaded gasoline, a ban on dangerously designed gas tanks, or speed limits could be considered a ban on cars. And while she agreed on the rarity of airplane crashes, she noted that legislatures recognize that the serious harm caused by even a single crash justifies extensive regulation of the industry, similar to the social and personal impact of mass shootings.

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