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Gun store owners in California say the demand for AR-15s has skyrocketed in the wake of the new gun controls signed by Governor Jerry Brown (D) on July 1.

Shaun King, writing at the New York Daily News, reacted to the deaths of three Baton Rouge police officers by claiming that background checks cannot work; therefore, it is time to confiscate all “assault rifles.”

California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom responded Sunday to the shooting deaths of three Baton Rouge police officers by blaming “the firearms industry, its spokespeople at the National Rifle Association, and their paid subsidiaries.”

Just over a year after instituting universal background checks, Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) is pushing a ban on the purchases of “high capacity” magazines.

In the wake of the heinous Sunday morning attack that took the lives of three Baton Rouge police officers, East Baton Rouge Sheriff Gautreaux stressed that the attack was not a gun issue as much as it was an issue

San Diego businessman Barry Bahrami has filed papers with the state Attorney General’s office to secure a referenda to repeal the six gun controls in “Gunmageddon.”

On July 14, Texas police detective Nick Selby penned an op-ed in which he described gun control pushes as misplaced, arguing instead for criminal control.

Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12) said even a “non-lawyer” knows the Second Amendment protects muskets, not “assault weapons.”

On July 13 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH-4) questioned Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg and suggested the application of “high risk” categorization to gun sellers screams Operation Choke Point.

On Tuesday Democrats in the House and Senate put forward legislation to bar individuals 16 years and younger from shooting AR-15s. The bill also bars individuals 16 years and under from shooting a machine gun, and this would include “blocking

Rush Limbaugh weighed in Wednesday on Obama’s Dallas Police Memorial speech by observing that the statement about Glocks, books, and computers is “demonstrably false.”

Obama hijacked the funeral service for the murdered Dallas policemen on Tuesday, turning a memorial service into a political event for his own gain. It was vintage Obama, self-centered, preaching to the country and the world, never ceasing to edge his politics and ideology into the mix.

Actress Lena Dunham wants images of guns yanked from ads for Matt Damon’s new film Jason Bourne.

Speaking at Tuesday’s Memorial for the fallen Dallas Police officers, President Obama suggested it is easier ‘to buy a Glock” than a book in many communities.

All times CDT. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush will be addressing the assembled police officers, family members and dignitaries gathered to pay tribute to Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Brent Thompson and Dallas Police Department Officers Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa, Corporal Lorne Ahrens, and Sergeant Michael Smith.

DeadState.org gleefully seized on his statement in a piece titled, “Dallas police chief slams NRA’s ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Theory.”

On Monday Dallas Police chief David Brown criticized Texas laws that allow the open carry of rifles and said lawmakers must “do something on guns.”

On July 11, director and gun control proponent Micheal Moore weighed in on the Dallas police ambush by calling for a ban on “all semi-automatic guns,” “large capacity ammo magazines,” and war.

The Democrat Party’s 2016 party platform draft makes one thing clear: they are coming for your guns.

Comedian Amy Schumer believes Katie Couric’s new gun control documentary should be “required viewing” — even though Couric herself has admitted that the film was selectively edited to make pro-gun advocates appear foolish.

I think it’s virtually the whole of the Democratic establishment, including the Obamas, the Clintons, and their billionaire financiers, such as George Soros. These are the people who are plotting to take down Ailes. And if Ailes goes, I’m afraid, so could America.

On July 8, White House press secretary Josh Earnest tried to defend President Obama’s post-Dallas gun control push by explaining that Obama is concerned about the “easy access” to guns in the U.S.

In the wake of Dallas Police ambush, left-wing voices renewed their calls for a ban on AR-15 rifles. However, a CBS News report shows that such a ban would have been impotent because the gunman used an SKS rifle rather than an AR-15.

On Friday presumptive Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton responded to the Dallas Police ambush by pushing reforms for police departments and more gun control.

On the Saturday broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” John Jay College Professor of Law and Police Studies Eugene O’Donnell reacted to the Dallas attack by pointing to the combination of mental illness and “this sick gun culture we have” for

On July 9 Obama criticized Texas open carry laws, contending that police safety rests on gun control.

During his speech in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday, President Obama declared, “[I]f you care about the safety of our police officers, then you can’t set aside the gun issue” and that guns are a “contributing factor to the broader tensions

During a Friday press conference, Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed condolences over the July 7 attack on Dallas police officers and suggested it is time to re-examine “the ease with which wrong-doers can get their hands on deadly weapons.”

On July 7, The Atlantic looked at officer-involved shootings that took the lives of two armed black men, Alton Sterling (Baton Rouge) and Philando Castile (Minneapolis).

California — that bastion of liberal stupidity, that state steeped in political correctness, that progressive multicultural swamp, that state of new ideas and technologies — is once again leading the nation to destruction.

One month after saying he would not press for more gun control, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer (D) is calling for the ability to break with the pro-gun attitude of Kentucky and enact more gun controls in the City of Louisville.

HOUSTON, Texas–A gun range owner that had his Facebook page blocked after he advertised a free concealed handgun license class for the LGBT community has had the page restored after an article published by Breitbart Texas. The page was restored the afternoon the article exposing the problem was published.

Just days after Governor Jerry Brown signed an “assault weapons” ban on rifles with “bullet buttons,” among other California gun laws, the inventor of the button has introduced the “Patriot Mag Release,” a device that makes even the AR-15 California-compliant.

HOUSTON, Texas — When asked what she thought about the Obama Islamic cover-up of the Orlando Pulse terrorist, “If it quacks like a duck, it is a duck,” said a gay woman at a free concealed handgun license class in Houston.

But Politico reports that Paul Ryan is standing his ground, for now. And that he met with Representatives John Lewis (D-GA-5) and John Larson (D-CT-1)–two leaders behind last month’s gun control sit-in–in hopes of talking them into forgoing more disruptions of House business.

The House of Representatives reconvened for a legislative session July 5, and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) leadership is calling on CBC rank and file to “be as disruptive to (House) Speaker (Paul) Ryan (R-WI) as possible.”