In the lead-up to the November 3 elections, Michael Bloomberg pumped over $2 million into a couple of Virginia state Senate races in hopes of taking away the pro-gun GOP’s two-seat advantage and giving Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) the opportunity to start succeeding with his gun control efforts. But when the polls closed and the dust settled, the GOP had retained all their seats, and Bloomberg’s money had failed to secure gun control once again.
by AWR Hawkins4 Nov 2015, 4:57 AM PST0
On November 3, Democrat presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley pledged seven “unilateral executive” gun controls he will enact if elected president.
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 9:50 PM PST0
On November 1, an alleged robber who was shot by a convenience store clerk ran outside and flagged down a police officer in a desperate bid for medical help.
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 5:20 PM PST0
In a letter dated October 23, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked Secretary of the Army John McHugh to refuse to purchase firearms for soldiers from gun manufacturers who are not actively working on “smart guns” or complying with gun controls that Congress hasn’t even passed.
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 2:23 PM PST0
Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton released a new gun control ad in which she combines suicides with firearm-related homicides and, as a result, elevates “gun violence” figures by approximately 66 percent.
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 11:59 AM PST0
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced it will be giving up the .40 Smith & Wesson round and returning to handguns chambered in 9mm for service carry. While switching rounds does not have to mean getting a new
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 10:36 AM PST0
Fresno State football player Christian Malik Pryor was arrested on November 2 for allegedly threatening a gun-related mass shooting on the school’s campus.
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 9:33 AM PST0
On November 2, the Chicago Police Department announced it would not be charging the concealed carry permit holder who intervened and killed an alleged robber who was pointing a gun at a female store employee on Halloween.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 9:52 PM PST0
On October 13, Breitbart News reported that Wisconsin state representative Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) and state senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) are pushing a bill to expand campus carry into college buildings and classrooms in Wisconsin and to change it from strictly open carry to concealed carry as well.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 5:57 PM PST0
On November 2, The Daily Beast pointed to recent statements from President Obama and Hillary Clinton regarding the implementation of Australian-style gun confiscation and suggested “civil war could erupt on American soil” if any administration actually tried to confiscate privately owned firearms.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 3:16 PM PST0
On November 1, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer was shot during a traffic stop in Eureka, but was able to return fire and fatally wound the alleged gunman.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 11:39 AM PST0
On November 1, The Week claimed that self-defense gun uses are really not that common, therefore, “most civilians don’t have the skills to handle” a situation where a criminal with a gun is trying to kill them or others.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 10:10 AM PST0
On October 28, actress Julianne Moore claimed gun control should be pursued in the same way that “car safety” laws pertaining to seat belts and drunk driving were pursued in days gone by. Moore recalled a time when driving drunk
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 9:58 AM PST0
On November 1, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling denounced Republican lawmakers’ efforts to expand campus carry in her state in the wake of the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting by suggesting armed law-abiding students won’t “prevent anything.”
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 9:21 AM PST0
On November 2, Remington Arms Company entered the pocket pistol marketplace with the release of the RM380.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 7:48 AM PST0
An FBI report on the number of gun purchase background checks, January 1 through September 30, shows that Kentucky performed more than twice as many background checks in the first nine months of the year as California and Texas combined.
by AWR Hawkins1 Nov 2015, 5:52 PM PST0
On October 31, a masked, armed robber was shot and killed by a customer with a concealed carry permit in a Chicago neighborhood corner store, according to police.
by AWR Hawkins1 Nov 2015, 5:18 PM PST0
On October 30 High Bridge Arms–San Francisco’s last gun shop–sold it’s last gun to a 70-year-old customer named Elliott Isenberg for “$1,221.25.” The was a classic Colt 1911 chambered in .45. On September 28 Breitbart News reported that the owners of
by AWR Hawkins31 Oct 2015, 7:28 PM PST0
In the early morning hours of October 31 the tranquility of downtown Colorado Springs was interrupted by multiple shootings in which three innocents were killed before Colorado Springs Police were able to kill the gunman in a shootout.
by AWR Hawkins31 Oct 2015, 5:51 PM PST0
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, in an exclusive conversation with Breitbart News, weighs in on the gun control push by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in Chicago and President Barack Obama’s recent references to Australian-style gun confiscation as a way forward for America.
by AWR Hawkins31 Oct 2015, 10:15 AM PST0
Florida Gun Supply has joined with S.W.A.T. Firearms to develop and manufacture The Peacemaker JFM15 with the words from Matthew 5:9, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God,” engraved on the right-hand side of the gun’s lower.
by AWR Hawkins30 Oct 2015, 7:21 PM PST0
On October 30, the New York Times reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is joining the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence’s push to hold gun sellers liable for the misuse of guns.
by AWR Hawkins30 Oct 2015, 5:24 PM PST0
On October 27 the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 44-year-old Michael Mendoza and seized thousands of rounds of ammo and 39 guns which he had allegedly stolen from storage facility and moved to another.
by AWR Hawkins30 Oct 2015, 10:16 AM PST0
Christy Stutzman is a wife, former teacher, and mother, who believes the “senseless acts of violence” often perpetrated on school campuses with a gun can be remedied not by taking away guns, but by taking away gun-free zones. To that end, Stutzman is rallying with other mothers around the country to launch Mothers Against Gun-Free Zones.
by AWR Hawkins30 Oct 2015, 8:19 AM PST0
On October 27, driver Steven Hildreth Jr. was armed and wearing a hoodie when he was pulled over for a broken headlight in Tucson, Arizona.
by AWR Hawkins29 Oct 2015, 8:10 PM PST0
