AWR Hawkins

A Manor, Texas, homeowner took away an alleged intruder’s gun Friday morning, then shot and wounded the suspect.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, joined the left-wing dogpile on federal enforcement for shooting Alex Pretti and in the process admitted that Second Amendment rights are “fundamental.”

GOA senior VP Erich Pratt said Thursday GOA’s comments on exercising 1st and 2nd Amendment rights together were not specific to Alex Pretti. 

Eleven days before Alex Pretti was killed in a confrontation with federal agents he yelled “f**k you” at agents and dared them to “assault” him.

Media outlets are working to paint a divide between President Trump and Second Amendment rights in the post-Alex Pretti shooting climate. 

On Monday, Virginia’s Democrat-controlled Senate Courts of Justice Committee passed legislation containing a ban targeting semiautomatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns.

Colorado Democrat lawmakers are pushing legislation that will require all gun barrel sales to be conducted through Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) and to require said FFLs to maintain records of the purchaser’s name, address, phone number, etc.

On January 27 CNN reported that Alex Pretti was known to federal law enforcement prior to the fatal shooting that occurred Saturday.

On the Will Cain Show, Trump described Alex Pretti’s death as “terrible” and said he didn’t “like the fact that [Pretti] was carrying a gun.”

The AZ Sheriffs’ Assoc. blasted AG Kris Mayes’ statements that have caused a firestorm related to the shooting of ICE agents.

A suspect was hospitalized after being shot during an alleged home intrusion in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Sunday just after 5 a.m.

Virginia Democrats are pressing to remove “grandfather clause” language from a proposed magazine ban, immediately making criminals out of residents possessing mags holding more than ten rounds.

On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made clear President Donald Trump supports the right to bear arms but rejects claims to any right to impede ICE operations.

Democrat Reps. Kweisi Mfume and Bonnie Watson Coleman announced their reintroduction of legislation to limit the online sale of ammunition.

ABC’s “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed Monday that the man shot in Minneapolis by a federal agent Saturday had a “phone and a bottle of water.”

Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas went on an all-out, anti-gun rights tirade in reaction to a federal agent shooting and killing a man who tried to disrupt law enforcement actions while armed in Minneapolis Saturday.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ (D) police liaison resigned following Mayes’ comments related to shooting ICE agents.

In 2024, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) was among 17 AGs who contended there is no right to carry a gun at “political rallies and protests.”

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) doubled down amid backlash over her ICE comments saying, “I will not be deterred.”

During an appearance on FOX News’s The Sunday Briefing this week, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stressed that concealed carry in Minnesota is illegal “without an ID on you.”

During an appearance on FOX News’s The Sunday Briefing this week, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stressed that Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) have not “expressed any concern” over the injuries suffered by federal officers.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R) told Breitbart News that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ (D) ICE comments amount to “fantasizing about violent radicals shooting ICE agents.”

A video from FreedomNews.TV shows at least two men with rifles standing guard on the spot where an armed man was shot and killed by a federal agent Saturday morning.

A federal agent’s finger was bitten off during the riots that filled the streets after a federal agent shot an armed man in Minneapolis. 

Greg Bovino held a press conference in which he stressed, “We will not allow violence against our law enforcement officers.”

During a Saturday press conference Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara indicated the man shot and killed by a federal agent was “a lawful gun owners with a permit to carry.”

Minneapolis Emergency Management Director Rachel Sayre said the continued presence of ICE makes people “afraid to even go to the doctor.”

A statement from DHS says the armed man who was shot and killed in Minneapolis “wanted to…massacre law enforcement.”

A statement released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and read live on FOX News indicates that the agent who shot a man in Minneapolis Saturday fired “defensive shots.”

FOX News reported live that more protests are erupting in Minneapolis after federal officers shot an armed man on Saturday.

During an interview aired by 12 News, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) said she does not consider Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “officers” to be “real law enforcement.”

Two officers were shot and a third wounded by shrapnel when a homicide suspect opened fire Friday afternoon in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Police in Lafayette, Indiana, arrested five people this week in connection with the January 18, 2026, shooting of Tippecanoe County Judge Steven Meyer and his wife Kimberly.

The Arizona Police Association blasted Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) over her comments about “legal justification” in the shooting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

In a letter dated January 23, 2026, Arizona Senate Majority Leader John Kavanaugh (R) demanded the state’s Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) “step down in disgrace” after her comments about the shooting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

A study conducted by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) shows that murders in the U.S. plummeted during 2025, the first year of President Trump’s second term.