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Texas Bill Would Expand State Right to Try; Further Reject Some FDA Restrictions on Experimental Treatments

The legislation is an expansion of the Texas Right to Try law that went into effect in June 2015. The law enables terminally ill patients to access medications and treatments that do not have final FDA approval. Passage of SB773 would expand that to enable patients suffering from chronic diseases to access medications and treatments not yet given final approval for use by the FDA.

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Mississippi House Passes Bill to Prohibit Using Credit Card Information to Track Firearms Purchases

Titled the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, the proposed law would prohibit a financial institution or its agent from requiring or “assigning” a specific firearm or ammunition merchant code to any firearms business located in Mississippi.

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2nd Amendment: Who is the Biggest Threat?

Who is more dangerous to the right to keep and bear arms - the people who outwardly push for more violations of your rights, or the people who claim to protect right, but actually ensure that law enforcement will continue helping the ATF?

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Minnesota Bill Would Limit Participation in Federal Police Militarization Program

The legislation would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies in Minnesota from acquiring “military-grade weapons” from the federal 1033 program. HF1297 defines military-grade weapons as “militarily equipped vehicles and aircraft, weapons and other objects designed to primarily have a military purpose or offensive capability, and ammunition.”

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Kentucky Bill Would Take Step Toward Treating Gold and Silver as Money

The legislation would create a sales and use tax exemption for precious metal bullion. The bill defines “precious metal bullion” as bars, ingots, or coins made of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, or a combination of these metals to be used as a medium of exchange, security, or commodity.

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Kentucky Bill Would Ban Enforcement of Federal Gun Control; Past, Present and Future

The legislation would ban the state, its political subdivisions and all of their agencies from enforcing any past, present, or future federal “acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, rules, and regulations," that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.

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Maryland House Committee Holds Hearing on “Constitutional Carry” Bill

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Feb. 11, 2023) – On Wednesday, a Maryland House committee held a hearing on a bill that would make it de facto legal to carry a firearm in the state without a license, fostering an environment more hostile to federal gun control. The enactment of a so-called “constitutional carry” bill would also foster […]

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Fake “Sanctuary” in Utah: House Passes Bill that Ensures Federal Gun Control Enforcement will Continue

But the legislation includes so many exceptions it would do virtually nothing in practice or effect. And language in the bill will likely be a green light for state and local law enforcement to keep working with the ATF to violate the 2nd Amendment.

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Tennessee Bills Would Create a Process to Review and Reject Unconstitutional Federal Acts

The legislation, titled the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," would create several processes to declare a "federal action" unconstitutional, void and unenforceable in the state of Tennessee.

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