
On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals there is no numerical threshold of sales that a private seller has to cross before being considered “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.”
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 5:22 PM PST0

On January 4 Breitbart News spoke with Senator Rand Paul about his ongoing defense of the Second Amendment and his efforts to fight against Obama’s penchant for using executive actions for gun control.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 3:32 PM PST0

During a January 4 press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest cited debunked Everytown for Gun Safety statistics as one of the reasons behind President Obama’s decision to move forward with executive gun control.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 2:24 PM PST0

During a New Year’s Eve sermon at Heal the Land Outreach Ministries in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Pastor Larry Wright disarmed a man with a rifle in one hand and an ammunition magazine in another. After disarming him, the pastor led the congregation in praying for him.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 12:17 PM PST0

On January 4, the FBI released numbers for annual background checks for gun purchases showing that 2015 broke the previous one-year record by more than 2,000,000 checks.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 11:31 AM PST0

President Barack Obama will reportedly announce executive gun control actions on Tuesday. The gun controls are expected to expand background checks to cover private gun sellers as well to place new reporting requirements on the backs of federally licensed firearms dealers.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 9:26 AM PST0

On January 3, Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio pledged to undo President Obama’s “illegal and unconstitutional” executive gun control.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 7:55 AM PST0

On January 3 Reuters reported that Freedom Watch–a group dedicated to defending freedom–will be filing a lawsuit against Obama’s executive gun control as soon as it’s issued.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 6:53 AM PST0

On January 4 House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) released a statement characterizing Obama’s pending executive gun control as “overreach” and said, “The country will not stand for it.”
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 6:45 AM PST0

Aviation police officers at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports have been advised to “run and hide” in the event of an active shooter at either facility.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 9:17 PM PST0

With President Obama’s executive action for gun control expected this week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump let it be known that he will “unsign” Obama’s executive gun control once he is sworn in as president.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 7:51 PM PST0

During the January 3 airing of Meet the Press, gun control proponent Mark Kelly said “middle-aged white men” with decreased life expectancy are clinging to guns.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 12:39 PM PST0

On January 3 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump used a Facebook post to call out Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy in telling the American people that guns “don’t keep you safe” while simultaneously surrounding herself with “heavily armed bodyguards.”
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 8:32 AM PST0

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he opposes President Barack Obama’s effort to unilaterally impose further gun-controls, claiming it represents another sacrifice of freedom in a world where “bad guys are always going to have…guns.”
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 8:28 AM PST0

On January 7 President Obama will hold a live gun control town hall on CNN with Anderson Cooper.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 7:24 AM PST0

In 1871, the Texas legislature banned carrying guns outside the home–a move largely directed at controlling blacks during the Reconstruction era. That ban was altered in 1995, when Texas adopted the concealed carry of handguns, yet a prohibition against openly carrying handguns in public remained on the books. It took the Republican-controlled 2015 Texas legislature and Governor Greg Abbott (R) to abolish that final prohibition, thereby making it legal to carry handguns openly in public in the Lone Star State–and achieving liberty for all.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 7:24 AM PST0

During the January 3 airing of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pointed out that Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie signed 10 gun control bills in 2013.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 6:53 AM PST0

In a preview of a larger interview that will air during Face the Nation on January 3, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said he does not like Obama’s efforts at executive gun control and is tired of people blaming guns for America’s ills.
by AWR Hawkins2 Jan 2016, 12:55 PM PST0

The BBC reports that President Obama will take “unilateral action” next week to put “common sense gun laws” in place.
by AWR Hawkins2 Jan 2016, 7:29 AM PST0

In a year marked by a relentless Democratic push for more gun control, stocks of two of the most prominent gun makers—Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co—saw their value nearly double.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 8:03 PM PST0

On January 1, the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago for 2015 was 2,986.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 7:42 PM PST0

On December 31 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed there were 372 mass shootings–or more than one mass shooting a day–during calendar year 2015. On the other hand, Mother Jones editor Mark Follman reported four mass shootings for the whole year and USA Today reported approximately 22.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 3:10 PM PST0

Arne Duncan gave his final speech as education secretary on December 30, expressing his “frustration” that Congress has not passed more gun control and his hope that more such control will be secured to keep school children safe.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 12:55 PM PST0

On January 1, the Seattle City Council’s tax on guns and ammunition takes effect, thereby raising the prices on guns and ammunition for law-abiding citizens throughout the city.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 9:48 AM PST0

On January 4, President Obama will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to finalize the executive gun controls expected to be announced next week.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 8:55 AM PST0