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  • Blog Post: Some States Act on Gun Control

    Although there appears to be broad public support for some gun control measures , federal action on any of them seems unlikely in the current political climate. “The possibility of evidence-based firearm laws has become so politically toxic that there’s essentially zero action on firearm...
  • Blog Post: Politics in Brief - July 23 2018

    CA REQUIRES REPORTING OF VOTER DATA BREACHES CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation last week requiring people and organizations that obtain voter registration data to report security breaches of that information. Assemblyman Marc Berman (D), who authored the bill ( AB 1678 ), said it...
  • Blog Post: Politics in Brief - August 6 2018

    STATES TEMPORARILY BLOCK 3D PRINTABLE GUNS U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik temporarily blocked the TEXAS -based company Defense Distributed from publishing blueprints on the Internet for making plastic guns on 3D printers. That decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by eight states challenging...
  • Blog Post: Host of Closely Watched Propositions on Ballot

    On November 6, voters in 37 states will consider 158 ballot measures, just one more than the 157 propositions in 2016, according to the Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California. Among the issues on the ballot this year in multiple states, marijuana legalization...
  • Blog Post: Mixed Results for Closely Watched Ballot Measures

    Marijuana legalization was one of the most prevalent issues on state ballots on Nov. 6. And with the approval of one of those measures, Proposal 1 , on a 54-46 vote, Michigan became the first state in the Midwest to legalize marijuana for recreational use. But voters in another Midwestern state, North...