As the widely-televised Baltimore riots gave way to a summer rife with more civil unrest, calls for widespread violence, and targeted attacks on police officers, Americans flooded into gun stores at such a high pace that they set records for the number of background checks conducted in May, June, July, and August.
On September 8 Gun Owners of America (GOA) endorsed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for President of the United States. In a press release issued with the endorsement, GOA chairman Tim Macy explained the reasons they chose Cruz: Ted Cruz has promised
Less than two weeks after a heinous attack in which a Virginia TV reporter and and her cameraman were killed by a gunman who passed a a background check for his firearm, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) is is pushing legislation to make “gun sellers” criminally liable for the misuse of guns they sell.
On September 5, two alleged home invaders put a gun to a Hartford, Connecticut, homeowner’s head as he was entering his home. He fought with the suspects and was able to retrieve his own gun, shooting them multiple times.
Last week Matt Gonzalez, attorney of the illegal alien on trial for murdering American Kathryn Steinle, defended his client by pointing out that Lopez-Sanchez only has a “second grade education.”
Last week, Matt Gonzalez–attorney of alleged gunman Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez–agreed with testimony that Lopez-Sanchez allegedly shot Kathryn Steinle but argued that it was the gun’s fault. He suggested the gun went off without the trigger being pulled because it “has no safety.”
In the early morning hours of September 7 shooting and stabbing incidents left one dead and four wounded at the annual J’Ouvert Festival in Brooklyn.
Andy Parker–father of slain Virginia reporter Alison Parker–will be joining Everytown for Gun Safety and Shannon Watts for a gun control rally in Washington DC on September 10.
On September 5, members of Police Lives Matter 661 flooded Bakersfield police headquarters to show their support for the men and women of law enforcement.
According to the FBI, August 2015 was the biggest August on record for background checks for gun purchases.
The words of Psalm 144:1 — ”Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle” — are etched upon the right side of the rifle’s lower, while a cross and shield are etched upon the left side. And along the AR-15’s safety lever are the Latin words “Pax Pacis” (Peace), “Bellum” (War), and “Deus Vult” (God Wills It). Peace is the gun’s safe position while “War” is the gun’s fire position.
On September 2 a 17-year-old allegedly walked up to a car in which an exterminator was sitting, pointed a gun at him, and demanded his sunglasses. The exterminator–Joe Lanier–has a concealed carry permit and responded by firing “seven times.”
On September 2, an 85-year-old El Cerrito man saw suspicious movement in his backyard, retrieved his gun, and shot one of two suspects who had allegedly entered his home. The alleged burglar sustained a gunshot wound to the head.
When Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop reached out to Comcast to run commercials for “family night” at their gun range, they were told they could only run the commercials if they did not use the word “gun” and if they removed the phrase “family night.” At the same time, Facebook informed Chris Williamson—owner of Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop—that they would not let him put up posts on the “family night” event because his business sells guns.
On September 3, an 11-year-old boy in North St. Louis County, Missouri, shot and killed an alleged home invader to protect his 4-year-old sister.
On July 2 Breitbart News reported that we made sure our Glock 43 was unloaded, then submerged it, froze it into a solid block of ice, let it thaw, and repeated the whole process until the gun had been frozen four times.
Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard will not face charges over the discovery of a handgun in his carry-on bag as he entered security at George Bush International airport.
Twelve people have been shot to death, and 13 others have been wounded in Chicago since late Tuesday.
On September 3 a Navy veteran tackled an alleged gunman in a Walgreens, stabbed him with a pocket knife, and held him down until police arrived.
the Los Angeles Times suggests that the influx of money into previously poverty-stricken and abandoned areas could be correlated with firearm-related crime as well.
Like a sledge hammer falling on a glass table, Duke Researcher Chris Conover has dropped scholarly methods and results on the anti-gun rhetoric regarding gun ownership versus car ownership to show that owning a car is “80 percent” riskier than owning a gun, as it relates to the lives of others.
In 2014 there were 50 officers shot and killed in the line of duty. As of September 3, 2015 there were 26 officers shot and killed in 2015.
In the wake of the murders of WDBJ-TV’s Alison Parker and Adam Ward, former television news personality Dan Rather is urging journalists to seize on gun violence the way they seized on Ebola.
Breitbart News previously reported that 67-year-old Harvey Lembo bought a gun on the morning of August 31 for self-defense then shot an alleged burglar hours later whom he believes was trying to steal his painkillers.
In the same September 1 speech in which Jeb Bush defended gun rights for Americans, he told students at a Miami school that he supports legalizing immigrants who are in our country illegally—i.e., amnesty. In so doing, it never occurred to him that gun rights for Americans and amnesty for illegal immigrants are mutually exclusive.
