On December 23, Bloomberg Business responded to the post-San Bernardino rejection of gun control by suggesting gun control was beaten the same way it has been beaten since 1968; by a “gun lobby” led by an NRA that is a force to be reckoned with.
On December 22, The Daily Beast criticized the ongoing availability of AR-15s, suggesting shotguns are a sufficient type of weapon but are largely rejected as a substitute for ARs because they “lack capacity for mass carnage.”
Texas public universities cannot ban guns in dormitories because it violates Senate Bill 11, said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a nonbinding opinion Monday about the new state law known as “campus carry.” This came in response to a request (RQ-0076-KP) filed by state Sen. Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), the bill’s author.
On Christmas Day, the NBA will be running Everytown for Gun Safety gun-control ads, featuring Golden State Warriors’s Stephen Curry, Los Angeles Clippers’s Chris Paul, New York Knicks’s Carmelo Anthony, and Chicago Bulls’s Joakim Noah.
On September 6, U.S. Marine Joshua Velez visited his brother in New Bergen, New Jersey, and was arrested for possession of a lawfully purchased 9mm handgun and hollow-point bullets.
On Sunday and Monday former ESPN analyst Doug Gottlieb took to Twitter for an anti-gun tirade.
A report indicates that President Obama will celebrate the Christmas season by circumventing Congress via executive gun control.
The FBI reports that November was the seventh consecutive month of record-breaking background checks.
On December 22 Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) announced that he was ending reciprocity with 25 states for their lack of gun control.
On December 22 the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago year-to-date is 2,887.
Leftwing filmmaker and gun control proponent Michael Moore observed that the NRA is “partially right” when they say “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” He simply wants them to augment the latter portion of the phrase so that it reads: “Guns don’t kill people, Americans kills people.”
On December 21, Governor Chris Christie (R) released a statement supporting the clarification of New Jersey gun laws and the expansion of what qualifies as a “justifiable need,” as it pertains to reaching the threshold for being issued a firearm carry permit.
An armed Texan broke up a home invasion in the Houston suburb of Spring as two men were leaving with their loot.
A German gun shop has been accused of xenophobia after putting a multi-lingual sign in the window telling would-be customers only German passport holders would be admitted. Written in five languages on an A4 sheet of paper tacked in the
On December 21 Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced legislation to render any executive action on guns impotent by rendering it “advisory only.”
Gun sales in Colorado are nearing a record-breaking high amid the anti-gun push that followed the two high profile shootings in Colorado Springs, one of which took place on Halloween Day and one of which occurred at a Planned Parenthood on November 27.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee (D) wants police to be issued to stun guns that can be used in lieu of bullets in the wake of the December 2 shooting death of Mario Woods, who was armed with a knife.
On December 20 President Obama politicized the heroic sacrifice of Zaevion Dobson by suggesting Dobson’s decision to use his own body to shield three girls from gunfire ought to be an impetus for Congress to pass more gun control for law-abiding citizens.
The black market for homemade AR-15 rifles is surging in California. ARs are legal to build at home, but “it is a felony to sell or trade such a weapon.” The market for the illegal sales and trades of these guns has become front and center in California.
The Houston Police Department is preparing for the new year and Texas’ new open carry law by publishing information designed to help eliminate confusion on the law.
During the December 18 airing of The View, actor Kurt Russell said those who fought in the Civil War would not have been able to do “what they considered defending their life, their way, their style of living,” if it had not been for the Second Amendment.
On December 16, school board members in Keene, Texas, voted not simply to allow armed teachers, but also to provide the handguns teachers will carry.
On December 18 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Breitbart News that armed citizens can “stop the carnage” and take out bad guys “before the cops arrive.”
During the December 19 Democrat debate, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said urging more Americans to carry guns in the wake of San Bernardino will not make the country safer.
During the December 19 Democrat debate, presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley both pushed for expanding background checks to gun shows because of the San Bernardino attack. However, San Bernardino is in California, where the “gun show loophole” does not exist.
