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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Friday that prohibits credit card companies from tracking gun sales in Florida.

Serbians have begun handing over firearms, ammunition, and “pieces of mines and explosive devices” following President Aleksandar Vučić’s May 5 announcement of “almost total disarmament.” 

A Cameron, Texas, police officer was shot and killed Wednesday night while trying to execute a warrant on a suspect believed to have shot his spouse in the back just before 11 p.m.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) is introducing legislation to raise the minimum purchase age for a semiautomatic firearm to 25. 

During CNN’s Wednesday town hall with Donald Trump, moderator Kaitlan Collins claimed there have been “more than 200 mass shootings in 2023.”

During his Wednesday town hall on CNN, former President Donald Trump told moderator Kaitlan Collins that the U.S. needs a strong focus on mental health and hardening schools, not gun control.

San Francisco supervisor Dean Preston (Democratic Socialist) announced Tuesday that he is calling for legislation prohibiting security guards from using guns to protect property.

Texas state Rep. Justin Holland (R-Rockwall) caved to gun controllers Monday and voted in support of a bill, HB 2744, to raise the minimum purchase age for AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21.

The 33-year-old who opened fire on the Allen, Texas, outlet mall Saturday was Level II and Level III certified for a security guard position in Texas, according to CNN. 

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed Monday that there has been, on average, more than one mass shooting every day during 2023.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) is calling the Democrat Caucus to meet and discuss ways to act on President Biden’s request for more gun control.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that she wanted to “ban the purchase of assault weapons.”

CNN reported that the guns used by the alleged attacker at the Allen, Texas, outlet mall Saturday were legally purchased “over time.”

On Monday the state of Illinois and city of Naperville responded to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s notice that they respond to an injunction request against their “assault weapon” bans.

Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons held a press conference Monday in which he showed video of a deputy shooting a 58-year-old alleged hostage taker who was armed with a knife. 

Here 4 the Kids, a gun control group comprised of mothers, is urging Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) to use an executive order to ban all guns in the state. 

CLAIM: “Doctor Strange” director Scott Derrickson reacted to the Allen, Texas, mall shooting by claiming guns are “the number one cause of death” for children.

In the wake of Saturday’s Allen, Texas, mall shooting, Mike Bloomberg gun control affiliate Shannon Watts criticized Lone Star State lawmakers for not raising the minimum purchase age for AR-15s to 21. 

ABC News reported that 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, who opened fire at the Allen, Texas, outlet mall Saturday afternoon, was removed from the U.S. Army in 2008 “due to mental health concerns.”

Part of President Joe Biden’s reaction to the mall shooting in Allen, Texas, on Saturday was to go after Republicans by saying, “Tweeted thoughts and prayers are not enough.”

At least 20 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

President Joe Biden joined a Democratic Party fad Sunday of mocking “thoughts and prayers” expressed in the wake of national tragedies, saying such sentiments were not enough in the wake of a mass shooting in Texas.

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) responded to calls for more gun control following Saturday’s Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by noting that blue states with stringent gun control have “mass shootings” as well.

Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera reacted to the Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by suggesting that politicians who pose with AR-15s should also pose with dead bodies. 

NBC News reports that “senior law enforcement officials” indicate the suspect who opened fire at an Allen, Texas, outlet mall was armed with a handgun and a rifle.

CLAIM: President Joe Biden reacted to the Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by claiming “there have been roughly 200 mass shootings” in America thus far in 2023.

As law enforcement descends on the home of Saturday’s suspected Allen, Texas, mall shooter, his parents have “requested a translator,” according to reports cited by Fox News. 

Carlton Gilford is facing hate crime charges for allegedly shooting two men — 35-year-old Lundin Hathcock and 55-year-old James McDaniel — to death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 18.

A Fox News report on surging female gun ownership includes a focus on a 2022 Gallup Poll showing 22 percent of women now say they own guns.

Gun control Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted Sunday that AR-15 rifles are not necessary for hunting or self-defense and suggested mass shooters would be those “most affected” by an “assault weapons” ban.

Eight people were killed and numerous others injured after shots were fired at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas.

CLAIM: Rep. Colin Allred’s (D-TX) campaign manager, Paige Hutchinson, says a recording in which Allred suggests things would be better in the United States if the Second Amendment had not been written is “highly edited.”

An audio recording captured by Congressional Republicans in 2018 presents Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), suggesting things would be better in the U.S. if the Second Amendment had not been written.

A Long Beach, California man traveled to North Ogden, Utah, rang his estranged brother’s doorbell on April 27, then shot his brother to death when he answered the door. 

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), cosponsored universal background legislation in the U.S. House on March 1, 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris pushed an “assault weapons” ban the day after a 24-year-old former member of the Coast Guard killed one and wounded four with a handgun in Atlanta.