Guns

PIERRE - The executive director of a group opposing a new law in South Dakota that allows teachers and school personnel to be armed says the measure fails to address key issues.

WASHINGTON - The NRA is using a Justice Dept memo to argue that the Obama administration believes its gun control plans won't work unless the government seizes firearms and requires national gun registration - ideas the White House has not proposed and does not support.

PIERRE - The South Dakota House of Representatives has decided to continue with the state policy of defying federal gun law.

PIERRE - A South Dakota Senate committee is looking at a bill that would allow school districts to arm teachers and other personnel with guns.

PIERRE - The South Dakota Senate has approved a plan to make concealed weapons permits valid for five years, up from the current four years.

WASHINGTON - The number of federal background checks for firearm sales declined unexpectedly last month following a surge toward the end of the year as Washington considered new gun control measures.

SIOUX FALLS - South Dakotans are getting permits to carry concealed weapons at a brisk pace as President Barack Obama and Congress debate gun control in the wake of the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

PIERRE - A South Dakota Senate committee has rejected a measure that sought to prevent newspapers, broadcast stations and others from publishing the names of people who have guns.

Lone Star College campus shooting in Houston

PIERRE - The House Education Committee is weighing a bill that would allow individual school boards to designate teachers, administrators or others to be armed with guns in hopes of protecting against an attack such as the Dec. 14 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and six adults dead.