Tag: Second Amendment

National 2A group decries Murkowski and GOP senators for anti-gun vote

FeaturedJanuary 3, 2023

A national gun rights organization is denouncing U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and 17 other GOP senators who voted with Democrats to pass last month’s $1.7 trillion dollar government funding bill, which is riddled with gun control initiatives, including $11

Mat-Su voters pass law granting them final say over any new gun regs

FeaturedNovember 9, 2022

There will be no new borough regulations to restrict the discharge of firearms outside city limits without the expressed approval of Mat-Su voters. On Nov. 8, Mat-Su Borough voters overwhelmingly approved a proposition requiring that “any future ordinance

Murkowski panders to hard leftists in Oct. 2 interview

AbortionOctober 3, 2022

On Sunday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski sat down with one of the most liberal activist groups in Anchorage to share her vision for Alaska and the nation. Given just a month before the Nov. 8 midterms, the interview was clearly intended to reach out to Democratic and

Tshibaka calls out Sen. Murkowski for voting to ‘undermine the 2nd Amendment’

FeaturedJune 23, 2022

Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s main challenger in the coming election for U.S. Senate issued a scathing critique of the 20-year senator, after she joined just over a dozen fellow Republicans in voting to advance controversial “red flag” gun-control

The fake ‘common sense’ of federal gun control laws

FeaturedJune 17, 2022

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Having organized large gun-rights rallies in the past, completely unaffiliated with the NRA, I have sometimes

Alaska joins 25 states in urging Supreme Court to uphold concealed carry rights

FeaturedJuly 20, 2021

Alaska has joined dozens of other states in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the rights of New Yorkers to keep and bear arms. Gov. Mike Dunleavy said he supports Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor in adding Alaska to the 26-state amicus brief

Alaska on board as Supreme Court agrees to hear major 2nd Amendment case

FeaturedApril 29, 2021

For the first time in more than a decade the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a potentially landmark case involving Second Amendment rights. Alaska is one of 22 states to file an amicus brief in support of gun rights. The case involves two men who were denied

Rep. Young warns against 2nd Amendment violations as House approves gun control bills

FeaturedMarch 11, 2021

The U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills on March 11, which gun rights advocates warn are steps towards hindering gun sales and creating a national registry of all law-abiding citizens who bear arms. House Resolution 8 passed largely along partisan

Alaska joins 23 states supporting citizens’ right to carry guns in public

CultureFebruary 2, 2021

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor announced that Alaska has joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief maintains that allowing law-abiding citizens to carry guns in self-defense outside the home

Alaska backs NRA’s legal battle for survival in New York

CultureDecember 28, 2020

Alaska’s Acting Attorney General Ed Sniffen has joined a 16-state coalition of attorneys general supporting the National Rifle Association’s legal battle to keep New York from forcibly shutting the group down. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued

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