House Judiciary Committee chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA-6th Dist.) and 99 other members of Congress have signed and submitted a letter to ATF director B. Todd Jones warning that the proposed ban on AR-15 ammo interferes with 2nd Amendment rights. In
On February 27 the West Virginia senate passed a bill to eliminate the need for obtaining a permit to to carry a concealed handgun, citing the 2nd Amendment as reason enough to exercise an “inherent right.”
On February 27, Joseph Jesse Aldridge allegedly shot and killed four of his cousins and three non-family members in Tyrone, Missouri.
Ninety-six Maine lawmakers are sponsoring a bill to rescind the requirement for a concealed carry permit in the Pine Tree state.
On February 28, Salon focused on the growing GOP push for campus carry, calling it a “bizarre” attempt to impose a “lethal solution to the campus rape crisis.”
On February 27 a North Lauderdale, Florida, homeowner shot and killed an alleged home intruder trying to break into the house.
While the ATF’s proposed ban of M855 ammunition would hurt gun owners everywhere by taking away one of the most popular AR-15 rounds in the country, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reports it would be “detrimental… especially” for Californians, where Governor Jerry Brown (D) has already signed a bill banning most traditional hunting ammo.
The ATF’s basis for banning the M855 round requires that it can be fired out of an AR-15 pistol.
In his speech at CPAC Friday, National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called the NRA “freedom’s safest place” and gave a pointed defense of his organization, the right to keep and bear arms, and rights in general, saying, “They are all linked.”
On Friday, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera said he “lament(s)” that the number of guns that are in America, including the guns that guns that people possess “legally.”
The New York Times reports that the ATF’s proposed AR-15 ammo ban has been in the works for over three years.
On February 23, Breitbart News reported that Democrat lawmakers in Vermont were on the verge of scrapping expanded background checks supported by Michael Bloomberg and Everytown for Gun Safety.
On Wednesday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) joined Democrats to introduce a bill giving Attorney General Eric Holder final say on Instant Criminal Background Checks (NICS) for gun purchases.
On February 26, Rush Limbaugh addressed the pending ammo ban for popular AR-15 ammunition by saying, “[Obama] wants to take guns out of everybody’s hands and if he can’t do that, he’s going to take the bullets that go in
Free speech proponent and musician Kid Rock spoke to TMZ in New York City on Tuesday night, where, in addition to showing off his new fur coat, he spoke about American Sniper’s Oscar snub, hunting, and his favorite film. While
On February 26, a New York Times op-ed by Mary Lewis Grow of pro-gun control organization Protect Minnesota, cited terror attacks in heavily gun-controlled Europe and Australia as proof for why we need more gun control in this country too, and
New Jersey dropped the felony charges Gordon Van Gilder faced for having an unloaded flintlock pistol in his car.
On February 25, an unnamed gunman shot and killed three people in Sejong City, South Korea, despite the country’s strict gun control regulations.
Kelly Clarkson tells US Weekly she is pro-animal, pro-legalized pot, and pro-gun.
Following the gun control push that began in July 2012 with the Aurora theater shooting and escalated after the December 2012 Sandy Hook attack, donations to the National Rifle Association rose to nearly $100 million. IRS disclosure forms show that
On February 25, comedian/director/screenwriter Judd Apatow will host “An Evening With Judd Apatow and Friends” for the benefit of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
On February 24, Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld said the terror threat against Minnesota’s Mall of America (MOA) has exposed the “obvious truth” that “the phrase ‘gun-free zones’ is liberal of ‘sitting duck.'”
On February 24, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts wrote an op-ed suggesting that campus carry could actually increase sexual assaults on campuses around country.
On February 23, a burglary suspect allegedly kicked in an interior door and charged a Catawba County, North Carolina, homeowner only to be shot with a 12 gauge and killed.
On Monday, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced it was teaming up with the American Bar Association and seven other health organizations to form a “coalition” treating guns as a public health threat, focusing on ammunition magazine capacity.
