
The Works San Jose gallery is currently displaying the “American Gun Show” exhibition, which combines pieces inspired by various aspects of human life in an attempt to communicate America’s “obsession” with firearms.
by AWR Hawkins10 Nov 2015, 11:17 AM PST0

Federal agencies are taking an increased interest in the Nov. 4 mass stabbing on the University of California Merced campus because of the manner in which the stabber was dressed and the discovery of “a printout of an image of an [ISIS] flag” in his belongings, according to new reports.
by AWR Hawkins10 Nov 2015, 10:42 AM PST0

On November 9, Governor Chris Christie (R) issued a bipartisan veto on a domestic violence gun control bill backed by Gabby Giffords and subsequently called for expedited gun licenses for victims of domestic violence.
by AWR Hawkins10 Nov 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

The Trace ran a story pointing to the fact that George H.W. Bush quit the NRA in 1995, thereby setting an example that any of the current five million NRA members can follow if they too want to avoid being tied to the group.
by AWR Hawkins9 Nov 2015, 9:31 PM PST0

Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” while discussing a new pro-Ted Cruz (R-TX) super PAC ad featuring an anti-gun control message that references Presidents Barack Obama’s gun control push after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, Sen. Richard
by Pam Key9 Nov 2015, 5:59 PM PST0

As Yale students demand greater administrative oversight to sustain the “safe spaces” on their campus, University of Oklahoma professor David Deming is denouncing the threats inherent to college campuses and seeking the ability to carry a gun for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins9 Nov 2015, 5:07 PM PST0

On November 3, a young North Carolina mother feeding her baby was interrupted by two suspects who allegedly opened fire—shooting her “at least twice”—before she managed to return fire and stop the attack.
by AWR Hawkins9 Nov 2015, 4:35 PM PST0

Wisconsin state representatives Lisa Subeck, Terese Berceau, Melissa Sargent, and Chris Taylor–all Democrats representing portions of Madison–are circulating an Assembly bill to make “the transportation, purchase, possession, or transfer” of semiautomatic “assault” pistols a felony in Wisconsin.
by AWR Hawkins9 Nov 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

On Monday, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, 55, the leader of Ghee Kung Tong, the more than 150-year-old fraternal organization whose former leader Allen Leung was murdered in 2006, is standing trial on charges of murder and racketeering.
by William Bigelow9 Nov 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

With a bill, retroactive to show an ending date of October 1, the state of Maryland is ending its program to take ballistic fingerprints of firearms through shell casings after 15 years, $5 million spent, and no crimes solved.
by AWR Hawkins8 Nov 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

On November 8, University of Oklahoma Professor David Deming contended that “self-defense is a basic human right” that does not end where the campus begins.
by AWR Hawkins8 Nov 2015, 5:01 PM PST0

As part of CBS 46’s ongoing coverage of gun policies and issues in the Atlanta area they recently reported that Mayor Kasim Reed (D) and Police Chief George Turner are sitting on more than “10,000” confiscated guns in defiance of a Georgia law which requires them to return the guns to their owners or sell them to the public in an auction.
by AWR Hawkins8 Nov 2015, 1:37 PM PST0

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is out with its most recent figures on drug, car, and gun deaths, and the numbers show that drug-related deaths far exceed car deaths, while car deaths exceed gun-related fatalities.
by AWR Hawkins6 Nov 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

On November 5, CBS News reported that the gunman who opened fire in Colorado Springs on Halloween bought all his firearms “legally.”
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 7:22 PM PST0

On November 2 Obama-nominated U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross gave one year probation to a woman who admitted buying a gun for her boyfriend, which he later used to shoot and kill Omaha Police Officer Kerrie Orozco.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 5:53 PM PST0

The November 4 mass stabbing at University of California Merced comes just weeks after Governor Jerry Brown (D) barred concealed carry permit holders from carrying guns on campus for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 5:37 PM PST0

A first-grader at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Cincinnati, Ohio is serving a three day suspension for pretending to shoot another student with an “imaginary” bow and arrow at recess last week.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 5:15 PM PST0

Byron Price, the construction worker who intervened to save a student under attack at University of California Merced on November 4, says he now views concealed carry “differently” and wants to get a permit to carry a gun.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 1:19 PM PST0

On November 3, voters kept the Virginia Senate in the hands of pro-gun Republicans, yet Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–claimed victory because a Democrat they supported won a seat vacated by a Democrat.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 9:01 AM PST0

On November 3, CBS 46 in Atlanta continued their series titled, “The Gun Fight,” by lamenting that Walmart, Kroger, and Publix stores display “gun porn” on shelves that are easily accessible to children.
by AWR Hawkins4 Nov 2015, 9:22 PM PST0

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America deputy director Jennifer Hoppe says news that Forest Hills Elementary School teaches a gun safety course to kindergarteners—then repeats it to those same students again when they are in third grade—is “atrocious” and a “disingenious” way for adults to dodge the responsibility they face for owning guns.
by AWR Hawkins4 Nov 2015, 6:22 PM PST0

Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and James Kilgore—three communist revolutionaries who were part of domestic terror groups and who all spent years on the run from the law—approved as a man called for “citizen’s tribunals” against the National Rifle Association to be held at the United Nations.
by Lee Stranahan4 Nov 2015, 4:56 PM PST0

On November 4 Washington Post contributor Peter Galuszka reflected on key losses for Democrats in the Tuesday elections and concluded that Michael Bloomberg’s involvement and gun control agenda were a kiss of death for Democrats seeking office. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper
by AWR Hawkins4 Nov 2015, 2:48 PM PST0

On November 2, Florida state Representative David Kerner (D-Lake Worth) voiced his opposition to campus carry by suggesting that being armed for self-defense on campus goes “way beyond the simple bearing of arms” protected by the Second Amendment. Kerner’s opposition to
by AWR Hawkins4 Nov 2015, 1:59 PM PST0

On Wednesday, a man with a “high-powered rifle” shot at police responding to a domestic violence call, and fired more shots at a neighboring apartment complex, prompting police to lock down streets in the area and causing the Federal Aviation Administration to shut down flights to and from San Diego International Airport.
by AWR Hawkins4 Nov 2015, 12:33 PM PST0