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West Virginia Constitutional Carry Victory After Veto Override
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Governor Tomblin, under cover of an astonishing advertising blitz by Bloomberg, has issued a veto of HB4145.
WVCDL-ALERT Update: Constitutional Carry Passes Legislature
Yesterday, the House amended HB4145 to add a $50 tax credit for training.
WVCDL-ALERT Update: Constitutional Carry Moves
HB4145 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee today without any anti-gun amendments.
West Virginia Constitutional Carry Bill Moving
This is where you come in. We need you, your family, your friends, your coworkers ALL to email & call your delegates, and ask them to pass HB4145 intact.
West Virginia Citizens Defense League Action ALERT for HB4145 – Public Hearing
Anti-gun forces have called a public hearing for HB4145 in House Judiciary. In this hearing, they will make a showing, and speak to the committee about why and how your rights should be infringed.
Why New Gun Laws, When You Don’t Enforce the Ones We Have?
As Washington, our Governor, Senator Manchin and others here in West Virginia scheme to craft new laws to restrict (and eventually eliminate) our inherent human right to self-defense, they…..
Slick Gun Grabbers
Just one day after the San Bernardino terrorist attack, members of the US Senate tried to attach the Manchin-Toomey bill to another bill not related to the Second Amendment.
Charleston Gazette-Mail Spreads Lies About West Virginia Concealed Carry Holders
Phil Kabler just called you a bunch of criminals. The “statehouse beat” reporter, he sure seems out of touch with reality…
West Virginia Constitutional Carry Passes House Unchanged
Last evening in the House, SB347 “Constitutional Carry” withstood attacks from multiple delegates in the form of bill-killing amendments…
West Virginia Constitutional Carry Up for Vote, Mainstream Media Just Lies & Lies
In case you haven’t noticed it, nearly every media outlet is running biased, & often outright false stories attacking constitutional carry. Most of them are not even making an effort at truth…
Stop WV’s ‘Constitutional Carry’ Act From Turning Into An Antigun Bill
It would still be “Constitutional Carry” in the strictest sense, but it will also roll back preemption that the WVCDL and NRA have fought so dearly to win…
West Virginia Politicians Want to Ban Night Vision Equipment
Remember, this is not about hunting or poaching. Because hunting at night is already illegal. They don’t need an extra section in the law. This is about denying you modern defensive technology…
West Virginia Gun Owners Mapped Like Sex Offenders
We had three solid gun bills signed by the Governor. But there was one legislative defeat, and we are already seeing the fallout from that defeat…
West Virginia Citizens Defense League Legislative Update for January 2014
The 2014 session is coming, and the WVCDL has been working with legislators on our agenda since August. We have high hopes for this session, and have spoken with some key legislators…
West Virginia Citizens Defense League Planning Legal Action Against WV Sheriffs
Certain West Virginia Sheriffs are violating the law of the state and adding their own requirements for issuing concealed carry permits…
West Virginian Firearms Preemption Bill on the Move
Bill HB2760 is a work of art. It completely preempts municipalities & counties from enacting firearms ordinances of any kind. It voids existing ordinances. It allows for you to receive court costs and attorney fees if you have to fight…
Powerful West Virginia Citizens Defense League Joins Firearms Policy Coalition
While the U.S. Senate held hearings on new federal gun control proposals, another prominent Second Amendment rights group joined the fast-growing Firearms Policy Coalition…
West Virginia Prosecutor Pam Neely’s Twisted Beliefs Can Put You in Jail
Berkeley County Prosecutor Pamela Games-Neely sent a letter to the legislature ranting in true Sarah Brady fashion about the lack of a law preventing lawful carry of firearms on college and university campuses…
Joshua Beck Arrested AGAIN for Carrying on BRCTC Campus
Joshua Beck, a student at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College in Martinsburg who was arrested last week for a felony charge of carrying a weapon on school property…
Man Arrested for Carrying Concealed Handgun on WV College Campus
In a nutshell, West Virginia state law does not criminalize carrying a concealed hand gun on a college, university, or other post-secondary educational institution’s campus…
Caution: Gun-Free Schools Law Applies to Many West Virginia Polling Places
Before you go to vote today, remember that if your polling place is located at a primary or secondary school–regardless of whether it is a public, private, or religious school–you may not possess any firearms on school property…
2 More States Qualify For NICS Exemption For Concealed Handgun Licenses
Including the additions of Kansas and Nebraska earlier this year, the ranks of qualifying states have grown by 25% this year alone…
Cities of Charleston & Martinsburg WV File Motions to Dismiss WVCDL Gun Control Lawsuits
Defendants in WVCDL’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality and statutory validity of a variety of local gun control ordinances in the cities of Charleston, south Charleston, and Dunbar filed a motion to dismiss…
Manchin Can’t Make Up His Mind on Anti-Gun Traver Nomination
Our new U.S. senator, Joe Manchin is noncommittal on President Obama’s nomination of anti-gun zealot Andrew Traver to be Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives…
West Virginia 2011 Legislative Session Ends with NO Gun-Related Legislation Passing
The 2011 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature ended at midnight with good news and bad news for West Virginia gun owners…
Message to West Virginia Gun Owners from the 2011 Legislative Session – JOIN or DIE
I mean that all gun owners in West Virginia are going to have to unite behind future legislative initiatives if we are going to break the growing legislative logjam that shows no signs of breaking on its own…
West Virginia Citizens Defense League to Form Local Chapters & Target Key Legislative Leaders
In the coming weeks and months, WVCDL is going to begin organizing into various local chapters throughout the state that will regularly meet and organize on the local level…
West Virginia Citizens Defense League Lobby Day This Monday
WVCDL’s annual Lobby Day at the West Virginia Legislature is this Monday, February 21, at the West Virginia State Capitol…
Call To Action For West Virginia NRA Members
The NRA has the influence and the pull to get our Legislature to pass anything that it publicly endorses and supports…
What Grass Roots Gun Rights Can Learn From Egypt
You have an incredible amount of power at your fingertips. Your keyboard is a mighty tool of change. Use it…
Gun Rights Good News & Bad News in West Virginia Legislature
Good News: WVCDL’s West Virginia Gun Owner Protection Act of 2011 to be Introduced Soon…
Group Files Suit to Challenge Martinsburg, WV Gun Control Ordinance
West Virginia Citizens Defense League Files Suit to Challenge Martinsburg Gun Control Ordinance Martinsburg, W.Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- This morning, the West Virginia Citizens Defense League filed a 6-count civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia challenging a Martinsburg city ordinance prohibiting the possession or carrying of firearms in city-owned […]
WVCDL Files Suit Challenging Charleston, South Charleston & Dunbar Gun Control Ordinances
Each of the challenged ordinances violate the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Amendment to the West Virginia Constitution, various federal statutes, and West Virginia state law…
West Virginia Citizens Defense League To Sue WV Towns Over Local Gun Control Ordinances
WVCDL will be filing two important lawsuits to challenge several local gun control ordinances that violate a combination of federal constitutional, federal statutory, state constitutional, and state statutory provisions…
