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Alabama Lawmakers Approve Bill Requiring Employers to Allow Firearms in Employees’ Vehicles

by Anne Averitt, John W. Hargrove | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/23/2013

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has signed into law SB286, a bill that limits employers’ restrictions on employee possession of guns in their cars at work. The House of Representatives voted 73-28 on Monday to approve a...more

Legal Alert: Tennessee's Safe Commute Act May Impact Workplace Weapons Policies

by Herbert Gerson, Joshua Sudbury | FordHarrison on 5/17/2013

On March 14, 2013, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam signed into law the "Tennessee Safe Commute Act." The new law, which takes effect July 1, 2013, will allow handgun carry permit holders to store firearms and ammunition in...more

Legal Aliens Have Right to Carry Concealed Weapons, Courts Say

by Michele Bowman | Lawyers.com on 4/19/2013

A gun rights group is fighting in court to arm legal immigrants, filing lawsuits over the Second Amendment’s application to those who are in the country legally and want to tote weapons....more

When It’s Right to Fight Back — Self-Defense

by Law Offices of Adrian H. Altshuler &... on 4/17/2013

When threatened with serious bodily injury or death in your own home, you have the right to protect yourself. But what rights do you have to defend yourself outside of your home? Do you have the right to act in self-defense,...more

Gun Lobbies Strike Out Third Time in Federal Court

by Lawyers.com on 3/25/2013

Ray Woollard will have to keep his guns at home, now that the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Maryland can legally require him to state a “good and substantial reason” to carry a loaded handgun in public....more

Tennessee House passes guns-in-cars bill

by Sara Anne Quinn, Kara Shea | Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada,... on 3/4/2013

Originally published in the Tennessee Employment Law Letter on February 28, 2013. On Thursday, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill permitting handgun carry permit holders to store firearms and...more

Defending A Weapons Charge In Utah

by Intermountain Legal on 2/27/2013

All across America, people who love guns love Utah. That is because the Utah constitution guarantees the right of citizens to bear arms; and also because Utah honors concealed weapons permits issued in any state in the Union,...more

Court Rules There is No Right to Carry a Concealed Weapon

by Lawyers.com on 2/25/2013

In a sweeping ruling, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there is no Second Amendment right to carry a concealed firearm in public. The broad wording of the decision in Peterson v. Martinez creates a...more

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