
The Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety is actively pushing an expansion of background checks for every firearm sale in Oregon, be that sale retail or private. They present the checks as the same kind of background checks required at Oregon gun shows “since 2000,” even though they admit the background checks at gun shows didn’t really stamp out private sales.
by AWR Hawkins13 Apr 2015, 5:46 PM PST0

On April 10, Bloomberg.com ran a column full of quotes suggesting NRA members at the Nashville convention are nervous and even fearful over a possible Hillary Clinton presidential run and then juxtaposed this so-called fear with a presentation of Clinton’s views that omitted her belief that gun owners “terrorize a majority of people.”
by AWR Hawkins10 Apr 2015, 1:50 PM PST0

On April 6, Fox News ran a column which contained comments from Moms Demand Actions’ Shannon Watts praising Washington state’s institution for the very kind of background check Jared Loughner passed to get the firearm he used to attack Gabby Giffords, then saying it’s only “gunsense” that all other gun purchasers should have to go through the same background check.
by AWR Hawkins10 Apr 2015, 7:06 AM PST0

With less than two years left in his presidency, Obama says it is “heart-breaking” that his administration has not been able to pass more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins8 Apr 2015, 9:28 PM PST0

On Wednesday, Oregon lawmakers will discuss a gun control proposal that outlaws all private gun sales except those between “close relatives,” and that makes sales between “close relatives” a privilege that exists only as long as the government allows it to continue.
by AWR Hawkins31 Mar 2015, 9:43 PM PST0

On March 25, the Colorado Senate voted to repeal the expanded background checks that Democrats rammed through as part of the draconian gun control package that was implemented on July 1, 2013.
by AWR Hawkins28 Mar 2015, 9:40 AM PST0

On March 17, Gabby Giffords will be at the Connecticut state Capitol with Governor Dannel Malloy (D) to push for the passage of a gun laws that were actually “enacted 15 years ago.” The law being pushed by Giffords would
by AWR Hawkins16 Mar 2015, 5:48 PM PST0

As Democrats continue to circle the wagons to preserve gun-free zones, Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th Dist.) is suggesting gun owners support protecting children with background checks, which did not stop Adam Lanza from committing his heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
by AWR Hawkins11 Mar 2015, 6:00 AM PST0

Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, was turned away twice on gun purchases in 2013 because of certain requirements and stipulations of the current background check system.
by AWR Hawkins9 Mar 2015, 11:17 AM PST0

Speaking at Benedict College in South Carolina on March 6, President Obama said the “Second Amendment … is important,” that it is “part of our culture” and “part of who were are.” Then he quickly added, “But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries–by like a mile.”
by AWR Hawkins9 Mar 2015, 5:52 AM PST0

On March 6, The Hill reported on a tweet the NRA sent out, claiming the tweet “mocks Gabby Giffords” with the facts.
by AWR Hawkins8 Mar 2015, 8:22 PM PST0

Giffords is their human shield — the gun control representative who could do and say what she wanted without facing any real pressure to prove her claims were true.
by AWR Hawkins8 Mar 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

On March 5, brothers Carlton Hipps and Ramone Williams allegedly shot and killed Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III.
by AWR Hawkins8 Mar 2015, 3:20 PM PST0

On March 6, just days after Democrat lawmakers relaunched a push to expand background checks to gun shows, President Obama did his part by saying, “There are neighborhoods where it is easier for you to buy a handgun… than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable.”
by AWR Hawkins7 Mar 2015, 5:34 PM PST0

On March 6, the San Francisco Sentinel ran a column by MSNBC’s Steve Benin, labeling the NRA’s tweet on the hypocrisy behind Gabby Giffords’ gun control push a “bad idea.”
by AWR Hawkins7 Mar 2015, 6:25 AM PST0

On March 4, Breitbart News reported that Gabby Giffords was joining with Democrat lawmakers to push background checks for gun shows so that everyone would have to pass the same background check her attacker passed to get his handgun.
by AWR Hawkins6 Mar 2015, 10:20 AM PST0

Handgun sales in California broke a 21-year-old record in 2014, and at the same time, firearm-related murders fell to their lowest rate in over 20 years.
by AWR Hawkins4 Mar 2015, 4:35 PM PST0

Gabby Giffords demands that everyone buying a gun be required to undergo the same background check Jared Loughner underwent to acquire the Glock he used to shoot her in 2011.
by AWR Hawkins4 Mar 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

In the wake of two shootings that left a total of eight people dead–including the gunmen–South Korean officials are considering an all-out ban on storage of firearms in homes and mulling the placement of a GPS monitor on every firearm in the country.
by AWR Hawkins3 Mar 2015, 3:09 PM PST0

On February 23, Breitbart News reported that Democrat lawmakers in Vermont were on the verge of scrapping expanded background checks supported by Michael Bloomberg and Everytown for Gun Safety.
by AWR Hawkins26 Feb 2015, 8:55 PM PST0

The Washington Post looks across the pond and demonstrates that Europe’s expanded background checks prove useless in the face of a booming black market for guns and radicalized Muslims looking to commit terrorism.
by AWR Hawkins22 Feb 2015, 1:29 PM PST0