Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 – 5:21 pm
As the California Legislature churned toward adjournment this week, it was considering – as usual – new laws to inhibit gun ownership, adding to what are already, for better or worse, the nation’s most restrictive gun controls.
By Don Thompson, The Associated Press
Posted: 08/03/14, 8:51 AM PDT | Updated: 25 secs ago
SACRAMENTO >> California could become the first state to allow family members, licensed therapists and health care providers to petition a judge to take firearms from someone who has shown signs that they could harm others or themselves.
By Beau Yarbrough, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 04/24/14, 8:33 PM PDT |
Gun enthusiast, Assemblyman and gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly, R-Hesperia, has introduced a bill that would standardize the requirements for residents to get a handgun carry license.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
March 14, 2014
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
BURLINGAME – Tim Donnelly, who has made gun rights a centerpiece of his campaign for governor, has a complicated history with firearms.
By Chris Megerian and Seema Mehta
March 4, 2014, 11:34 a.m.
SACRAMENTO — Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Republican candidate for governor, on Tuesday likened President Obama to dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin on the issue of gun control.
Bob Egelko
Updated 5:21 am, Friday, February 28, 2014
Attorney General Kamala Harris moved Thursday to preserve California’s restrictions on concealed-weapons permits, seeking a rehearing of a federal appeals court ruling that would allow law-abiding citizens throughout the state to carry handguns in public.
By Chris Megerian and Melanie Mason
February 27, 2014, 1:54 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Republican candidate for governor, was back on the radio Wednesday to talk about firearms, this time fielding questions about his failure to register a handgun he illegally took to an airport in 2012.
BY DAVID MONTERO / STAFF WRITER
Published: Feb. 19, 2014 Updated: Feb. 20, 2014 1:59 p.m.
The Orange County sheriff loosened requirements Wednesday for obtaining a concealed-weapons permit in light of a recent federal appellate court decision that deemed many urban counties in California to be overly restrictive in saying who can and can’t carry a concealed weapon.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 – 9:08 pm
Last Modified: Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 – 7:42 am
For years, California has had some of the nation’s toughest gun control laws, but that hasn’t deterred its politicians from writing ever more restrictions on sale and possession of firearms and ammunition.
Assemblyman running for governor appears on John and Ken radio show
February 17, 2014 10:53 AM
BARBARA DAVIDSON, LOS ANGELES TIMES
SACRAMENTO • Assemblyman Tim Donnelly took some friendly fire on Friday when he spoke with John and Ken, the radio duo who host a Burbank-based talk show.
By Paul Elias, Associated Press
Posted: 02/13/14, 12:25 PM PST | Updated: 8 hrs ago
SAN FRANCISCO — A divided federal appeals court has struck down California’s concealed weapons rules, saying they violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
January 23, 2014
Firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson will no longer ship new semi-automatic pistols to California, preferring to turn away from the nation’s most populous market rather than comply with a controversial new gun law.
By Jeremy B. White
jwhite@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 – 12:00 am
Last Modified: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 – 8:58 am
Bills that crossed Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk in 2013 encompassed policy topics from bullets to bike safety. In some cases Brown signed legislation that enshrined key Democratic goals, reflecting the strength of robust Democratic majorities in both houses of the Legislature.
UTC | NJ Congressional Connection Poll Coverage
By Peter Bell
December 6, 2013
A majority of Republican and Republican-leaning men, 53 percent, would be “very pleased” or “somewhat pleased” if legislation requiring universal background checks on all gun sales was passed by Congress and signed by the president, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll.
October 25, 2013; 05:23 PM
Rep. Raul Ruiz’s day job came in handy thousands of feet above the air.
Ruiz, a Harvard-educated medical doctor, came to the aid of a stricken passenger during an Oct. 24 flight from Washington to Fort Worth, Texas. Ruiz and a fireman tended to a man in his 60s who fainted in his seat about 30 minutes into the American Airlines flight, The Desert Sun reported.
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Melody Gutierrez
Updated 7:02 pm, Thursday, October 24, 2013
Sacramento –Gun-rights advocates plan to target Assembly Speaker John Pérez and four other Democratic lawmakers in a recall campaign to serve as retribution for California passing an assortment of gun-control bills this year.
Politics Blog
By Carla Marinucci
Friday, October 11, 2013 – 02:50 p.m.
Conservatives say they won a small victory when California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed what they called “the most draconian” gun bill in the nation — but they insisted that Brown’s role in signing “the strictest set of gun control laws” in America could prompt recall efforts in California.
By Melanie Mason and Patrick McGreevy
August 11, 2013, 5:49 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — State lawmakers, back from their summer break and starting their final month in session, have a lengthy to-do list that features such politically volatile issues as environmental rules, gun control and immigration.
By Emily Alpert, Los Angeles Times
May 7, 2013, 8:59 p.m.
The number of violent crimes involving guns has plummeted in the last two decades, but more than half of Americans think the opposite is true, according to reports released Tuesday.
By JAMES HOHMANN | 5/4/13 5:54 PM EDT
HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association has become, more than ever, part and parcel of the Republican Party.
The officially nonpartisan group’s no-compromise strategy helped defeat the background check bill in the Senate last month and grow its membership ranks to 5 million.
By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
April 18, 2013, 8:30 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly approved $24 million Thursday to speed up the confiscation of guns from Californians who are not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 18, 2013
A day after Congress rejected a package of bills aimed at tightening restrictions on gun ownership, California lawmakers moved in the opposite direction, increasing funds for a program that confiscates weapons from people who are prohibited from owning them because of mental illness or violent criminal pasts.
By Ed O’Keefe and Philip Rucker
Published: April 17, 2013
President Obama’s ambitious effort to overhaul the nation’s gun laws in response to December’s school massacre in Connecticut suffered a resounding defeat Wednesday, when every major proposal he championed fell apart on the Senate floor.
By Dan Balz
Published: April 17, 2013
If there was ever a moment that symbolized the difference between the power of public opinion and the strength of a concerted minority, it came Wednesday when the Senate defeated a bipartisan measure to expand background checks on gun purchases.
By JOHN BRESNAHAN and JAKE SHERMAN
4/15/13 3:18 PM EDT Updated: 4/16/13 10:00 AM EDT
The White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are shy of the 60 votes they need to move the bipartisan compromise bill on background checks for gun sales.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 2, 2013
A bill to regulate the sale of ammunition in California cleared the Assembly Public Safety Committee today.
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2013, 7:40 p.m.
WASHINGTON — To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive. She brought in police officers to press her case against her law-and-order opponents.
By JOHN BRESNAHAN and MANU RAJU | 3/18/13 8:10 PM EDT
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on Monday that a controversial assault weapons ban will not be part of a Democratic gun bill that was expected to reach the Senate floor next month.
By Matea Gold
February 21, 2013, 9:00 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Four California Republican House members are among 16 GOP legislators being targeted by a pro-Obama advocacy group in a new online ad campaign urging them to back a more robust background check system for gun sales.
Wyatt Buchanan
Updated 10:39 pm, Thursday, February 7, 2013
Sacramento –California would significantly restrict gun use and ownership, including major new bans on ammunition magazines, under dozens of new proposed regulations that would cement the state’s status of having the strictest gun-control laws in the United States.
By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Howard Schneider
Published: February 2, 2013
On his 51st birthday last August, President Obama hit the links with a group of buddies and then flew by helicopter to Camp David. There, he changed into jeans and picked up a shotgun. And then, before it got too dark, he started a round of clay target shooting.
By Alexander Bolton – 12/16/12 09:49 PM ET
President Obama promised Sunday evening he would take action in the coming weeks to prevent mass shootings such as the one that took the lives of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut.