A man preparing to depart Houston on a Delta Airlines flight discharged a firearm he prepared to put in checked luggage. No one was injured in the incident and airport operations were not interrupted.
In April Breitbart News reported the Senior District Judge Richard Matsch threw out a lawsuit filed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence on behalf of the parents of Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes. The suit, filed against online ammo retailer Lucky Gunner and other outlets, sought monetary relief for ammunition and firearms supplies purchased by Holmes.
On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the June 17 attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church highlights the need to crack down on gun shows.
On June 28, an UBER driver stopped his car to pick up a passenger and ended up shooting the man after allegedly being attacked and choked.
On Friday, The Washington Post ran a column asking readers to “look away from the Confederate flag” and look instead at the gun alleged Charleston attacker Dylann Roof held in his hand.
On Saturday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told supporters in Las Vegas that Obama’s gun control proposals would not have stopped any of the attacks “that have taken place in the last couple of years.”
The Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) is asking city council members to reword a gun storage proposal so that former and off-duty cops are exempted from a gun storage requirement now being discussed.
On June 24, a Fort Myers, Florida, man put a gun to ex-wife’s head, only to have her take it from him when he tried to manipulate the slide and clear a jam. She then reloaded the gun and ordered her ex-husband out of the house.
When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that every state must recognize same sex marriages, they used a basis for judgement that will not easily stop at same sex marriage. In fact, it is a basis for judgement that should offer itself to national reciprocity of concealed carry permits and permit holders.
On the June 22 airing of Fox News’ The Five, Juan Williams concurred with the argument that none of Obama’s post-Charleston gun control proposals would have prevented the attack from happening but said that doesn’t mean more gun control shouldn’t be passed anyway.
On June 26, the Huffington Post ran a column focused on how Australian comedian Jim Jefferies “shoots down [the] 2nd Amendment with humor.”
On June 18–the day after the heinous attack in which nine were killed at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–President Obama said, “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
On June 26 President Obama eulogized Rev. Clementa Pinckney praising the frenzied efforts to banish the Confederate flag from public sight, saying, “By taking down that flag we express God’s grace.”
On June 26 the Gettysburg National Military Park bookstore announced they have removed items from shelves “featuring the Confederate flag” and will no longer sell such products.
On Wednesday, an Uber driver in Queens was robbed by a man who allegedly got in his car, pointed a rifle at him, and demanded his money.
On Thursday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said he is not confident that Walmart clerks can sell gun “responsibly.”
Video has emerged of a June 15 Poughkeepsie, NY, council meeting in which Democrat Councilman Joe Rich screamed and told a Second Amendment supporter to “Shut Up!”
On June 24 Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed a bill allowing off-duty law enforcement to carry concealed guns into schools and a second bill abolishing the 48-hour waiting period for firearm purchases.
During a June 24 appearance on CNN, gun control proponent Mark Kelly said he thinks Obama was right for politicizing the Charleston shooting one day after it happened.
On Wednesday, former Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) asked people across the country to stop the feeding frenzy that is leading one politician after another to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from their respective state capitols.
On June 24, a Domino’s Pizza delivery driver was approached by two alleged robbers who demanded his money. The driver pulled his gun and opened fire, killing one of the suspects.
On June 19, a 48-year-old man allegedly approached two LAPD officers in their patrol car; when he raised a “towel-covered hand” and appeared to point it at them, he was warned–then shot in the head.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) floated the idea of reviving a measure that he and his colleague Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) raised in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting that would have
On June 23, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) suggested more gun control is needed in the wake of the Charleston attack, but he made clear he will not bring it up until he is sure he has rounded up the necessary votes.
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz argued “it’s easy…for people with a whole lot of money to support gun control. Because you can live in fancy neighborhoods, you can pay taxes and have the police protect you” in an
