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February 21, 2026

gun rights

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N. Carolina House, Senate pass gun rights bills 

February 22, 2023 Matt Mercer

RALEIGH — Both sides of the General Assembly approved separate gun rights bills in a flurry of activity on Jones Street last week.  In the NC House, a bill that would allow licensed conceal carry […]

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Gun rights advocates picket Tillis office in Raleigh

June 29, 2022 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — On June 24, around 100 gun rights activists picketed outside of the Raleigh office of Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis over his involvement in the recently passed gun control bill, the “Bipartisan Safer […]

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Four NC Republican congressmen sign onto Second Amendment protections bill

March 16, 2022 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina Republican U.S. Reps. Dan Bishop (NC-09), Ted Budd (NC-13), Madison Cawthorn (NC-11), and Richard Hudson (NC-08) have signed on as co-sponsors for H.R. 6945, the No Retaining Every Gun In a System […]

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Gov. Cooper vetoes concealed carry bill

June 18, 2021 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed Senate Bill 43 on Friday, which would have expanded concealed carry laws to include places of worship that are shared with a school campus, as long as the worship […]

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Supreme Court to take up right to carry gun for self-defense

April 29, 2021 Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. The case marks the court’s first foray into […]

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Bill amended to repeal NC’s pistol permit purchase system

April 28, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — A N.C. House bill, which originally sought to loosen pistol permits regulations by allowing North Carolina sheriffs to issue permits to residents of neighboring counties, has been altered to remove the pistol permit […]

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SHAPIRO: For the left, bigotry is a tool

March 24, 2021 Ben Shapiro

This week, a white man shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. According to Atlanta police, the man said he was targeting brothels and blamed the women for his […]

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Democrats vow vote on gun bills; Biden says ‘we have to act’

March 23, 2021 Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats said Tuesday that they are pushing toward a vote on expanded gun control measures as the nation reels from its second mass shooting in a week. President Joe Biden said “we […]

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Advocates seek Biden push on gun bills, but prospects iffy

March 16, 2021 Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After President Joe Biden’s giant COVID-19 relief bill passed Congress, he made a prime-time address to the nation and presided over a Rose Garden ceremony. But there wasn’t so much as a […]

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Background checks, ammo and gun sales maintain record pace

February 17, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — In 2020, firearm-related background checks, ammunition sales and gun sales all saw record numbers. The pace has continued this year with a record number of background checks performed in January 2021, according to […]

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