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• Pennsylvania: Senate Committee Passes Legislation to Allow Unrestricted Sunday Hunting
  On Tuesday, the Senate Game & Fisheries Committee voted 6-5 to pass Senate Bill 67 and House Bill 1431 to the Senate floor for a vote. These bills repeal restrictions on Sunday hunting, allowing Pennsylvania to join the overwhelming majority of states without restrictions. Only two states, Massachusetts and Maine, completely ban Sunday hunting. Pennsylvania is one of six states with partial restrictions.      
• Connecticut: Governor Signs Firearms Industry Liability Bill
  Recently, Governor Lamont signed House Bill 7042 (HB 7042) into law as Public Act No. 25-43. 
• North Carolina: Update on Gun Bills Moving through the General Assembly
  Recently, House Bill 193 (H193) was reported favorably out of both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Rules Committee, with amendments.
• Michigan: Senate Set to Vote on Anti-Gun Bills Tomorrow
  As previously reported, the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee voted out several dangerous bill packages that would further erode the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Michiganders. The Senate plans to vote on these bills tomorrow.  Please use the Take Action button below to contact your Senator and ask them to oppose Senate Bills 224, 225, 226, 331, and 332.  
• Oregon: Gun Control Bills Advance Out of Committees for Floor Votes
  In a last-ditch effort to advance gun control this legislative session, the Joint Ways & Means Committee has passed House Bill 3076, placing further restrictions on firearms dealers, and Senate Bill 243, the gun control omnibus package.
• 2A News Out of New Jersey You Won’t Believe: It’s Actually a Good Thing!
  The Garden State is not where most seek positive developments regarding our right to arms, so we were pleasantly surprised when Englishtown, N.J., recently made a move to support the Second Amendment.
• Switched Off: A Case Study on Minnesota’s Illegal Machine Gun Law
  There’s been a lot of noise of late about auto sears or so-called “Glock switches” – devices to convert a semiautomatic firearm into an automatic weapon. 
• The Trace Marks a Birthday: Ten Years of Anti-gun Propaganda, Little to Show for It
  On June 18, the anti-gun propaganda mill The Trace celebrated its tenth birthday with a self-congratulatory article entitled “How The Trace Came to Be and Other Stories From Our Early Days.” 
• Update: Washington Post Fact Checks Misleading Ad Council “Children” and Firearms Talking Point
  Last week, NRA-ILA explained how a recent public service announcement campaign from the federally-funded Ad Council, and the gun control lobby more broadly, manipulates statistics to create misleading talking points about “children” and firearms.
• U.S. Court of Appeals Backtracks on Adverse Suppressor Ruling
  In a single sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit added to the high-profile and consequential national conversation on firearm suppressors.