On Monday, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced it was teaming up with the American Bar Association and seven other health organizations to form a “coalition” treating guns as a public health threat, focusing on ammunition magazine capacity.
In an open letter opposing efforts to expand campus carry around the country, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety demanded an apology from two Republicans who are pushing campus carry as a way for college women to protect themselves against sexual assault.
Over the weekend, the Somalia terror group al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks that included targeting Minnesota’s Mall of America (MOA). In response, MOA reminded shoppers that law-abiding citizens with concealed carry handgun permits are barred from carrying guns on their premises for self-defense.
A new poll shows that Gabby Giffords’ home state of Arizona is abandoning gun control, partly because fears of imported jihadism are growing.
Leading Democrats in Vermont are close to scrapping a proposed background check requirement for all private gun sales in Vermont.
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.
On February 19, the Los Angeles Times reacted to the growing momentum for Campus Carry legislation across the country by referring to the NRA as “crackpots” and reminding the organization that it is the government’s “responsibility to protect the public through reasonable gun control laws.”
New York state senator Tony Avella (D-Queens) successfully pushed gun control via the SAFE Act in early 2013 and he has now set his sights on machete control.
On February 17 Florida State University criminology professor Gary Kleck responded to recent criticism of his past studies on defensive gun uses (DGUs) by showing why the criticism is wrong and why a minimum of 760,000 DGUs each year is still a viable claim.
Imagine a Britain in which we were all free to carry licensed firearms. Most of us can’t because, thanks to the pervasive cultural influence of organisations like the BBC, we’ve been brainwashed into thinking that this is the sort of
On February 18, an Arizona Senate committee passed Senate Bill 1330 to bar enforcement of any new federal gun control within the state.
On February 18, The Washington Post highlighted five countries where “officers are unarmed when they are on patrol” and suggested that unarmed officers “have saved lives–exactly because they were unable to shoot.”
The Second Amendment Foundation and Calguns Foundation are waiting for California Eastern District Judge Kimberly Mueller to issue a ruling in their request to prevent the state from banning the sale of new handguns which lack microstamping technology.
On February 17, Breitbart News reported that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America lost when Texas Governor Greg Abbot used his State of the State Address to make clear that Texas will be the 45th state in the country to allow the open carry of handguns.
Attorneys who filed suit against Bushmaster firearms for the families of ten Sandy Hook Elementary School victims allege that the rifle maker is “forum shopping” by removing the case to federal court, and that Bushmaster’s ultimate goal is “to avoid answering for their conduct.”
Governor Greg Abbott (R) handed Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America another loss on February 17 when he announced that he will indeed sign open carry into law, thereby “[making] Texas the 45th state to allow Open Carry.” Abbott
The leader of a pro-gun control group made several statements that were easily proven to be false during her testimony before the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee last Thursday, when she joined hundreds of other members of the public who came to the Texas Capitol to share their opinions about two bills under consideration by the committee, SB 11, the “campus carry” bill, and SB 17, the “open carry” bill. As Breitbart Texas reported, both bills passed the committee and are headed to the Senate for consideration.
Earlier in the day it was revealed that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made an effort to suppress audio of remarks he had made on Feb. 6 regarding gun control and minorities at the Aspen Institute. That request from
On February 16, Politifact revisited Lori Haas’s claim that states with expanded background checks see a “49 percent” reduction in female homicides and found it to be only “half true.”
Following the attacks in Copenhagen, Rabbi Menachem Margolin is calling for gun laws in Europe be changed so Jews can “carry weapons” with which to protect themselves.
On February 7 , Breitbart News reported on a speech by Michael Bloomberg in which he suggested banning young minority males from gun ownership.
Denmark’s strict gun control laws proved impotent to stop two weekend shootings which Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described as “a cynical act of terror.”
A 15-year-old teenager shot in the back by an Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer on February 17 says he wants a personal apology from the officer who shot him.
On February 13, The Economist (TE) ran a column showing that shooting guns is “a thrill” and suggested the gun control movement is hurting because most people pushing gun control do not understand how enjoyable shooting guns can be.
With open carry en vogue today the way concealed carry was in the 1990s, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is criticizing the NRA, stating it “normalize[s] behaviors that are unsafe.”
