Wisconsin state representatives Lisa Subeck, Terese Berceau, Melissa Sargent, and Chris Taylor–all Democrats representing portions of Madison–are circulating an Assembly bill to make “the transportation, purchase, possession, or transfer” of semiautomatic “assault” pistols a felony in Wisconsin.
With a bill, retroactive to show an ending date of October 1, the state of Maryland is ending its program to take ballistic fingerprints of firearms through shell casings after 15 years, $5 million spent, and no crimes solved.
On November 8, University of Oklahoma Professor David Deming contended that “self-defense is a basic human right” that does not end where the campus begins.
As part of CBS 46’s ongoing coverage of gun policies and issues in the Atlanta area they recently reported that Mayor Kasim Reed (D) and Police Chief George Turner are sitting on more than “10,000” confiscated guns in defiance of a Georgia law which requires them to return the guns to their owners or sell them to the public in an auction.
On November 6 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti apologized for endorsing Hillary Clinton for president from a LA city email account.
University of California Merced mass stabber Faisal Mohammad left behind a manifesto that referenced Allan numerous times and revealed plans to “cut someone’s head off.”
On November 5 California State University, Bakersfield, (CSUB) faculty underwent active shooter training that CSUB police chief Martin Williamson suggested would also apply to situations like the mass stabbing that took place at UC Merced on Wednesday.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is out with its most recent figures on drug, car, and gun deaths, and the numbers show that drug-related deaths far exceed car deaths, while car deaths exceed gun-related fatalities.
Faisal Mohammad–the UC Merced mass stabber who stabbed two students, a student adviser, and a construction worker on Wednesday–left behind a manifesto revealing he also planned to ambush campus police, steal their guns, and shoot fellow students who had “barred [him] from a study group.”
On November 5, CBS News reported that the gunman who opened fire in Colorado Springs on Halloween bought all his firearms “legally.”
On November 2 Obama-nominated U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross gave one year probation to a woman who admitted buying a gun for her boyfriend, which he later used to shoot and kill Omaha Police Officer Kerrie Orozco.
The November 4 mass stabbing at University of California Merced comes just weeks after Governor Jerry Brown (D) barred concealed carry permit holders from carrying guns on campus for self-defense.
A first-grader at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Cincinnati, Ohio is serving a three day suspension for pretending to shoot another student with an “imaginary” bow and arrow at recess last week.
Byron Price, the construction worker who intervened to save a student under attack at University of California Merced on November 4, says he now views concealed carry “differently” and wants to get a permit to carry a gun.
On November 3, voters kept the Virginia Senate in the hands of pro-gun Republicans, yet Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–claimed victory because a Democrat they supported won a seat vacated by a Democrat.
Merced Couty Sheriff Vern Warnke has identified the University of California Merced attacker who wounded four in a mass stabbing spree as 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad.
On November 3, CBS 46 in Atlanta continued their series titled, “The Gun Fight,” by lamenting that Walmart, Kroger, and Publix stores display “gun porn” on shelves that are easily accessible to children.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America deputy director Jennifer Hoppe says news that Forest Hills Elementary School teaches a gun safety course to kindergarteners—then repeats it to those same students again when they are in third grade—is “atrocious” and a “disingenious” way for adults to dodge the responsibility they face for owning guns.
On November 4 Washington Post contributor Peter Galuszka reflected on key losses for Democrats in the Tuesday elections and concluded that Michael Bloomberg’s involvement and gun control agenda were a kiss of death for Democrats seeking office. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper
On November 2, Florida state Representative David Kerner (D-Lake Worth) voiced his opposition to campus carry by suggesting that being armed for self-defense on campus goes “way beyond the simple bearing of arms” protected by the Second Amendment. Kerner’s opposition to
On Wednesday, a man with a “high-powered rifle” shot at police responding to a domestic violence call, and fired more shots at a neighboring apartment complex, prompting police to lock down streets in the area and causing the Federal Aviation Administration to shut down flights to and from San Diego International Airport.
Five individuals were wounded Wednesday morning in a mass stabbing incident on the University of California Merced campus.
On November 3, voters in Oregon’s Coos County voted to separate themselves from de jure compliance with state and federal gun control laws by giving their sheriff the job of deciding which laws are constitutional–and therefore deserving of compliance–and which are not.
On November 2 video surfaced depicting a beating in which six black men knocked one white man out, then took turns hitting his white friend–apparently because they had a Confederate flag sticker on their truck.
On November 3, California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) warned that Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is “taking a big risk” by focusing so much of her campaign on gun control.
