The Senate has passed two NRA-backed bills.

Senate Bill 2411, sponsored by State Senator Eric Powell (D-4), would allow

law-abiding Mississippians to apply for a concealed carry license by mail

and provide senior citizens a 50% discount on renewal of the permit.

Senate Bill 2466, sponsored by State Senator Walter Michel (R-25), would

protect existing shooting ranges and allow them to make repairs or

modifications to the existing building, expand range membership, and allow

for participation opportunities in the community, etc., without the local

government placing certain restrictions upon them.

Both of these bills move to the House for consideration.

SENATE BILL NO. 2571, by Senators Burton, Dearing & Gordon: THE "JUSTICE

COURT REFORM ACT OF 2008"; TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-975, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF

1972. Includes lots of Justice Court changes, including the authorization

of carrying firearms by Justice Court judges, has passed the Senate and the

House.

HB 1143, by Representative Banks: TO AMEND SECTION 97-37-3, MISSISSIPPI

CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT A SEIZED WEAPON SHALL BE RETURNED TO THE

OWNER IF CHARGES ARE DISMISSED OR THE DEFENDANT IS ACQUITTED, has passed

the House & was referred to Senate Judiciary B.

Federal

Feb. 28 - Two bills considered in the last session of Congress as H.R.

U.S. House of Representatives as H.R. 4900 — the "Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act."

H.R. 4900 is cosponsored by Congressmen Steve King (R-Iowa) and Zack Space

(D-Ohio) who sent out a "Dear Colleague" letter on February 27.

The combining of these two bills into the improved H.R. 4900 represents the

NRA's latest efforts to pass legislation that will make it easier for

lawful gun owners and dealers to comply with federal law and regulations,

while ensuring that those who break the law are punished accordingly.  This

bipartisan bill also serves as a vital step toward modernizing and

improving BATFE's overall operations.  The bill would roll back unnecessary

restrictions, correct errors, and codify long-standing congressional

policies in the firearms arena, and is a vital step to modernize and

improve BATFE operations.

Of highest importance, H.R. 4900 totally rewrites the system of

administrative penalties for licensed dealers, manufacturers, and importers

of firearms. Today, for most violations, BATFE can only give a federal

firearms license (FFL) holder a warning, or totally revoke his license.

As a result of BATFE abuses and its raid on a Richmond gun show in August

of 2005, the House Crime Subcommittee held oversight hearings and

congressional investigations in the spring of 2006 which led to the

introduction of BATFE Reform legislation in the 109th Congress by then

subcommittee chairman Howard Coble (R-NC) and ranking member Bobby Scott

(D-VA).

H.R. 5092, cosponsored by 152 congressmen, was passed on suspension in the

U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of

277-131, but time ran out before it could be considered by the Senate.

Please be sure to contact your U.S. Representative at 202-225-3121, and

urge him or her to cosponsor and support H.R. 4900, the "Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act."

On the Heller case, only five states have filed amicus briefs in favor of

the District of Columbia position - thirty one others have filed a brief

excoriating it.

Didn't see this one in the news did you???

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An armed student at

Jerusalem's Mercaz Haray seminary played a crucial role in stopping a

gun-wielding terrorist Thursday, but the American press is downplaying his

heroism because it proves that armed students can stop campus gunmen, the

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

Yitzhak Dadon, 40, was described as a private citizen who had a gun license

and was able to shoot the gunman with his pistol by reporter Etgar

Lefkovitz with the Jerusalem Post. However, many news agencies in the

United States are downplaying Dadon's decisive role in the incident.

Yitzhak Dadon is a hero, said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, and he is

living proof that armed students have a place on college campuses.

Thankfully, his quick action was reported by the international press,

including Mr. Lefkovitz, so unlike incidents here in the United States

where the press was able to completely ignore the actions of armed students

or teachers, the truth about this incident will not be suppressed.

Mr. Dadon is not going to become a victim of this conspiracy of silence,

Gottlieb continued. Elitist American college administrators, the national

press, nor anti-gun politicians can sweep this incident under their rug.

Internationally published reports say Dadon studies at the yeshiva, and had

his pistol when the shooting erupted. When the gunman emerged from a

library, Dadon reportedly shot him twice in the head.

Yitzhak Dadon's apparently well-placed bullets interrupted a rampage,

Gottlieb said. What a pity that someone like Mr. Dadon was not in class

last April at Virginia Tech. What a tragedy that anti-gun extremism would

keep him from attending class at Northern Illinois University. He would

never be allowed to teach at Columbine High School, hold a job at Trolley

Square in Salt Lake City, or go shopping at Omaha's Westroads Mall.

America's acquiescence to anti-gun hysteria has led to one tragedy after

another, Gottlieb stated. This disastrous policy has given us nothing but

broken hearts and body counts, and its got to end. The heroism of an armed

Israeli seminary student halfway across the world sends a message that we

needn't submit to murder in victim disarmament zones. That's why his

actions are getting such short shrift from Americas press. It's a story

they are loathe to report because it affirms a philosophy of self-reliance