Just days after Carol Bowne was stabbed to death while waiting for state permission to buy a gun in New Jersey, Gabby Giffords’s gun control group is lobbying to keep a permit-to-purchase law on the books in North Carolina.
On June 1 Breitbart News reported on Obama’s Spring 2015 “Unified Agenda.” The gun control measures contained therein which were to be passed by executive fiat. The administration is reworking the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). One of the many things regulated by ITAR are “technical data” tied to “defense articles.” This includes, but is not limited to, “detailed design, development, production or manufacturing information” about ammunition and firearms.
New York City has Michael Bloomberg’s favorite gun control measure in place and is facing a crime epidemic that includes a “nearly” 20 percent increase in homicides.
On June 6, Reverend Michael Pfleger listed recent shootings in heavily gun-controlled Chicago then said the NRA “will pay pay for the murder of our children.”
On June 5, the Courier Post reported that Everytown for Gun Safety supporter Jane Shivas, who is also executive director of the New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women, responded to the stabbing death of New Jersey’s Carol Bowne by saying, “We will never know whether Carol would be alive today if she had received her gun permit and purchased a gun.”
In the ongoing effort to discredit the December PEW Research Poll that found 52 percent of Americans support the pursuit of gun rights, while only 46 support more gun control, the Chicago Tribune reported that gun rights may actually be nonexistent; they may actually be an “illusion.”
Researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say polls making it look like Americans have abandoned gun control are the result of poorly worded questions. If the questions were worded differently, those polls would show that Americans actually want more gun control laws passed.
On April 21, Carol Bowne from Berlin Township, NJ, applied for a license to own a handgun, which she wanted to protect herself from a former boyfriend against whom she had a restraining order.
On June 3, Breitbart News reported that GOP Representatives were adding riders to a Department of Jutice appropriations bill to block—and in some cases roll back—DOJ efforts to implement backdoor gun control.
A New York Mets starting pitcher says he appeared in a team photograph wearing orange unaware that anti-Second Amendment groups planned to use the photo to bolster the gun-control cause.
“Basically, like, I’m not getting shot by a police officer so they’re not going to come out and defend me,” said Steffon Josey-Davis, a young black man aspiring to be a cop in New Jersey.
On June 2, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY-12th Dist.) introduced legislation to require the retrofitting of handguns with smart gun technology.
On June 2 the New York Mets announced that the team stands with Michael Bloomberg and Piers Morgan in the “Wear Orange” gun control push.
On May 31, the Texas House passed campus carry legislation, which is now headed for Governor Greg Abbot’s (R) desk. The next day, Newsweek reported that the expansion of concealed carry in Texas was “still a win” for Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety.
With the Connecticut General Assembly scheduled to adjourn at midnight Wednesday, Gabby Giffords’ gun confiscation push is in danger of not even getting discussion, much less a vote.
Actor Vince Vaughn–Old School, Wedding Crashers, True Detective–told British GQ magazine that Americans ultimately have the right to bear arms in order to resist “the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.”
The Obama administration’s Spring 2015 “Unified Agenda”–published May 22–shows that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) are pushing a number of new gun control rules for implementation by executive fiat.
Obama’s Department of Justice is working on “more than a dozen” new gun control regulations it plans to begin implementing apart from Congress. Some of the regulations are set to be put in place by November, others simply by the end of the Obama administration.
During the past week. two Republican state senators in California voted to further limit the places in which concealed carry permit holders can carry a gun for self-defense.
On May 29, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced legislation requiring all would-be gun owners to purchase liability insurance before being allowed to purchase a firearm.
On June 2 HBO, MTV, and a host of celebrities will be joining Michael Bloomberg and other pro-gun control groups to watch participating mayors proclaim “Gun Violence Awareness Day” in their cities.
Women have emerged as one of the fastest-growing demographics of new gun buyers and concealed carry permit holders in the country, and in the process, they have become a driving force in the shift in American attitudes from pro-gun control to pro-gun rights.
On the morning of May 28 an 8-year-old boy and a 32-year-old woman were both shot in the head and killed in Baltimore, Maryland.
On May 27, a National Journal article quoted UCLA law professor Adam Winkler saying a Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) really will “not … make a huge dent in our gun violence statistics.”
On May 26, the White House suggested the epic gun control failure in Baltimore proved the need for more gun control.
