
In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the majority of Americans said they see the Democrat Party as “outside the mainstream” on guns. Ironically, almost an identical majority view the Republican Party as “within the mainstream” as it pertains to guns.
by AWR Hawkins20 Oct 2015, 4:18 PM PST0

The idea of guns behind the pulpit has been gaining momentum in black churches for years and that momentum increased exponentially following the June attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June.
by AWR Hawkins20 Oct 2015, 9:40 AM PST0

A Detroit pastor is in police custody after pulling a Glock handgun and shooting a 25-year-old suspect who allegedly entered the church armed with a brick during services on October 18.
by AWR Hawkins19 Oct 2015, 1:14 PM PST0

In the wake of the October 1 attack in the gun-free facilities of Umpqua Community College, the University of Maryland has released active shooter response guidelines that advise students to “run” and “hide.”
by AWR Hawkins16 Oct 2015, 12:26 PM PST0

On October 10, Breitbart News reported that a concealed carry permit holder witnessed an armed robbery in progress at a Charleston, South Carolina, Waffle House and intervened by shooting and fatally wounding the suspect.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 9:24 PM PST0

On October 11, a concealed carry permit holder shot and killed an alleged armed robber inside Cafe Azzurri in Waterbury, Connecticut.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 12:49 PM PST0

During the October 11 airing of Face the Nation Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump talked about his concealed carry permit, the fact that he personally carries a gun from time to time, and the importance of allowing law-abiding citizens on college campuses to be armed for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 12:01 PM PST0

Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed a law Saturday that bars law-abiding, licensed citizens from carrying guns on campuses in California for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

A concealed carry permit holder was praised for shooting an armed robbery suspect around 5 a.m. on October 10, thereby stopping the robbery of a Waffle House in Charleston, South Carolina.
by AWR Hawkins10 Oct 2015, 11:25 AM PST0

Daniel Hamermesh, who left his position as a professor at the University of Texas due to Texas’ campus carry legislation argued the law will “lead to a much higher grade[s] for students, because who wants to give a student a
by Ian Hanchett9 Oct 2015, 5:08 PM PST0

On October 5 Rush Limbaugh described concealed carry as a “deterrent” and an example of peace through strength on the individual level. He segued into these comments by pointing to the ease with which Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump talks
by AWR Hawkins5 Oct 2015, 4:57 PM PST0

After Chris Harper Mercer opened fire on the Umpqua Community College (UCC) campus, killing 10 people on October 1, Breitbart News reported that the UCC was a gun free zone—a zone that is so gun free even the security guards were not allowed to carry guns.
by AWR Hawkins1 Oct 2015, 10:03 PM PST0

On September 27 an argument among a group of illegal gamblers at a Georgia “event center” escalated into a shootout which wounded ten people aged 16 to 29. The next day gun control proponent Shannon Watts tried to use the altercation to smear the NRA.
by AWR Hawkins28 Sep 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

On September 21, an alleged bank robber in Warren, Michigan, pointed his gun at an elderly customer, who pulled his own gun and shot the suspect in both arms and one leg. The alleged robber then “staggered” out of the bank and collapsed.
by AWR Hawkins22 Sep 2015, 6:40 AM PST0

In a suit that falls just after unarmed history professor Ethan Schmidt was gunned down on the Delta State University campus, a University of Missouri law professor is suing to have his school’s prohibition against guns for self-defense declared unconstitutional.
by AWR Hawkins21 Sep 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

On September 18, Donald Trump released a position paper in which he took the strongest stand on Second Amendment policies that any of the Republican primary hopefuls have taken to date.
by AWR Hawkins19 Sep 2015, 7:21 PM PST0

In a policy paper released to explain the importance of key Second Amendment issues, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump stresses “concealed carry…is a right, not a privilege” and contends for national recognition of the concealed carry permits from every state.
by AWR Hawkins18 Sep 2015, 12:52 PM PST0

With crime rates and gang activity that no law has been able to fix, Panama’s Public Safety Minister Rodolfo Aguilera says his country is ready to follow in the U.S.’s footsteps and make it easier—rather than harder—for citizens to carry guns on their persons for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins17 Sep 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

A father is outraged after learning that an “active shooter protocol” at his children’s school, Stevenson Elementary in Heath, Ohio, includes encouraging his eight-year-old son to throw books at the gunman.
by AWR Hawkins16 Sep 2015, 11:49 AM PST0

On September 9, an alleged burglar entered a home in the 200 block of Richmond Avenue in Dayton, Ohio, and later died from a wound he received when the female homeowner opened fire.
by AWR Hawkins9 Sep 2015, 6:16 PM PST0

On September 2 a 17-year-old allegedly walked up to a car in which an exterminator was sitting, pointed a gun at him, and demanded his sunglasses. The exterminator–Joe Lanier–has a concealed carry permit and responded by firing “seven times.”
by AWR Hawkins5 Sep 2015, 12:03 PM PST0

On July 2 Breitbart News reported that we made sure our Glock 43 was unloaded, then submerged it, froze it into a solid block of ice, let it thaw, and repeated the whole process until the gun had been frozen four times.
by AWR Hawkins4 Sep 2015, 10:41 AM PST0

Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard will not face charges over the discovery of a handgun in his carry-on bag as he entered security at George Bush International airport.
by AWR Hawkins4 Sep 2015, 7:32 AM PST0

Video has surfaced of a confrontation between a mother and a gang of teenagers she believed were threatening her 15-year-old son at Fleet Park in St. Charles County, Missouri.
by AWR Hawkins2 Sep 2015, 7:35 AM PST0

Kristi and Rod Beber have been foster parents to “over a hundred kids,” but they fear they are about the lose the ones they have now because Rod grabbed a gun and went out the front of the house to protect the family during an alleged disturbance in their front yard in April.
by AWR Hawkins1 Sep 2015, 4:48 PM PST0