On December 18, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio referenced President Obama’s pending executive action on gun control and said executive order or not, guns will not be surrendered.
Florida public colleges are requesting $74 million to “fortify” school grounds in expectation of state approval for a “campus carry” guns-rights law.
On December 17 the Los Angeles Times provided details of a 2012 terror plot based on court documents. The plot was not carried out, but the details of it show that an armed citizenry could have thwarted it in its tracks.
White House communications director Jen Psaki says President Obama will be reviewing executive actions he can take to go around Congress on gun control in “weeks, not months.”
House Democrats pushed an “assault weapons” ban on December 16 that included a prohibition against the manufacture of such weapons, and on that very day, an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that the American people were pushing back and doing so in greater numbers than ever before.
Prosecutors have filed papers in court alleging that San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook and Enrique Marquez planned to carry out an attack in 2012 that included bombing Riverside City College, then shooting drivers and passengers along a crowded stretch of 91 freeway in a secondary attack.
This week, U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ-10) introduced national gun buybacks with a program called the Safe Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act.
On December 17, the New Orleans city council voted 6 to 1 to remove “prominent Confederate statues” in the city.
On December 17, Assistant Homeland Secretary Alan Bersin said he had not heard about the effort to use the no-fly list for gun control background checks and suggested any effort to do so would be “apples and oranges.”
On December 16, Vanity Fair ran a column claiming President Obama has “no f**ks left to give” on gun control, which is their way of saying his lame duck status means he has no reason to hold back in efforts to institute all the gun control he can before leaving office.
On December 16, President Obama met with Michael Bloomberg to discuss ways executive action may be used to circumvent Congress for more gun control.
During a post-debate interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on December 15, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz described how political correctness prejudices President Obama and Hillary Clinton against law-abiding American citizens.
On December 16, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch said affluent seniors are buying up handguns in the face of the growing terror threat.
On December 16, satirist Dan Joseph released “The Gun Control Song,” mocking President Obama’s habit of responding to high-profile shootings by calling for more gun control while “blood is still fresh on the ground.”
On December 16, the Huffington Post responded to sheriffs’ requests that citizens arm themselves to fight terrorism by suggesting the requests feed Islamophobia and make Muslim-Americans uncomfortable.
On December 16 an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that an “assault weapons” ban faces the largest opposition among the American people ever.
A PEW Research Poll released December 15 shows the American public trusts Republicans over Democrats when it comes to guns, terrorism, and the economy.
On December 16, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI-1st) will introduce the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2015” to ban all manufacturing of “assault weapons.”
On December 13, protesters with AR-15s slung over their shoulders crashed a Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America rally in Missoula, Montana.
During the December 15 under card GOP debate in Las Vegas, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said we should not be able to deny Second Amendment rights “based on a list kept by the government that no one knows how they get on it or how they get off of it.”
In the face of the growing threat of attacks against unarmed students and faculty around the country, southern Indiana’s West Clark Community School District is considering arming a number of teachers in each school for self-defense.
On December 14–the 3rd anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary–President Obama used a Facebook post to try to shame Congress into passing gun controls that would not have prevented the Sandy Hook attack from happening.
2015 has delivered a record-breaking year for background checks in California, surpassing the 12-month background check record in an 11-month period.
On December 7, a man and woman pulled their self-defense handguns and stopped an attack in which a knife-welding man had allegedly knocked down a 90-year-old suspect and “was trying to stab” him.
On December 14, Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe said police departments and the various branches of the military need to use the leverage of purchase contracts to pressure firearm makers into building smart guns.
