The AP reports today that over half the members of the Texas House have signed onto a measure requiring that universities allow students and faculty to carry concealed weapons on campus. What a terrible idea.

Pleasures, Alabama's drive-thru sex shop, is offering a great Valentine's Day special: Until February 15, customers can swap firearms for store credit. The store's owner, Sherri Williams told AFP, "This way, they can take something that's just lying around and swap it for something they can take home and make love, not war with."

You know what the problem with the right to bear arms is? It's not a requirement. Luckily, a few South Dakota lawmakers are hoping to change that with a law that would require anyone over 21 to buy a gun.

Now that the furor over Jared Loughner's Tucson shooting spree is subsiding, Arizona's legislature can resume the important work of making sure every citizen has as many guns as possible. What's in the state's "Firearms Omnibus" bill?

Today we learned that most Americans don't blame violent rhetoric or guns for what happened in Tuscon. This is very confusing! Very confusing especially for one commenter, who raised an interesting question.

New York Rep. Peter King is considering introducing the latest piece of hasty gun legislation after Saturday's shooting spree: Making it illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of government officials. Everyone else can fend for themselves.

An obviously deranged man killed six people with a legally purchased and legally carried pistol on Saturday, and the only thing we're arguing about is whether he was listening to Sarah Palin.

The president of the Bodega Association of the United States, Ramon Murphy is urging store owners in New York to apply for gun permits after a clerk was killed in a robbery attempt on Saturday. Sounds like a bad idea.

Are you familiar with the patriotic new trend of carrying your favorite gun to your local bar? Four states now have laws that explicitly allow people to carry loaded firearms in establishments that serve alcohol. Can you guess which ones?

Are you a Texas resident who's tired of waiting in long lines to enter the Texas Capitol building in Austin? There's an easy solution: get a gun permit! Carrying a weapon will let you bypass metal detectors.

Arizona's controversial new immigration law has been hailed by many on the far right. But to some, like neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, the new bill is too weak. So he and some fascist buddies are roaming the desert looking for Mexicans!

The town of Nottingham, New Hampshire decided this week that it was time to overturn a 10-year ban on allowing town employees to carry firearms to work. What a brilliant idea! A former town police officer said "this concerns me."

Police in Texas have arrested two men with a truck carrying 147 assault rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and 53 bayonets (what?!) bound for Mexico. Over 23,000 people have died in Mexico's drug war since 2006. [BBC, pic]

According to a recent poll (sponsored, albeit, by a pro gun-control organization) gun owners are more supportive of tighter gun laws than the NRA. Every gun owner does not want the right to carry a concealed flamethrower. [NYT]