
President Barack Obama will reportedly announce executive gun control actions on Tuesday. The gun controls are expected to expand background checks to cover private gun sellers as well to place new reporting requirements on the backs of federally licensed firearms dealers.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 9:26 AM PST0

On January 7 President Obama will hold a live gun control town hall on CNN with Anderson Cooper.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 7:24 AM PST0

On December 14, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords blasted Congress for not enacting California-style background checks following the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary, which happened three years ago. California has the expanded background checks that Giffords has been pushing
by AWR Hawkins14 Dec 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

On October 3, Mark Carman posted a YouTube video in which he equated gun rights with motorcycle ownership–arguing that the licensing requirement for the latter provides some standard to guide licensing requirements for the former–and the White House responded by inviting him to come visit on November 16 and 17.
by AWR Hawkins11 Nov 2015, 1:21 PM PST0

On October 14 gun control proponent Gabby Giffords and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright launched a women-based coalition for gun control.
Giffords and Albright are joined by former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman (R).
by AWR Hawkins14 Oct 2015, 3:23 PM PST0

On September 29, Breitbart News reported on a Quinnipiac University poll showing that the majority of American voters oppose more gun control—and this opposition includes roughly 3 out of 4 Republican voters and 49 percent of Independent voters.
by AWR Hawkins30 Sep 2015, 7:55 PM PST0

On September 14, Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley indicated that gun control is part of his plan for restoring the “American dream.”
by AWR Hawkins14 Sep 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

On June 13 the US Navy will christen a combat ship after gun control proponent and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
by AWR Hawkins12 Jun 2015, 11:32 AM PST0

Neither DeLauro or Dingell mentioned the more recent example of Carol Bowne, the Berlin Township New Jersey woman who was defenseless against a domestic attacker on June 3 because gun control prevented her from buying a gun when she needed it.
by AWR Hawkins9 Jun 2015, 2:28 PM PST0

Gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly will speak on Class Day at Harvard Law School on May 27, despite their string of epic defeats.
by AWR Hawkins13 May 2015, 2:26 PM PST0

On May 11, Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) signed Senate Bill 941, making the background check Aurora theater gunman James Holmes passed the law of the land in Oregon.
by AWR Hawkins12 May 2015, 5:29 AM PST0

On Wednesday, CNN reported that the guns Garland attackers Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi used were “bought legally,” which means they were acquired through background checks.
by AWR Hawkins6 May 2015, 4:25 PM PST0

On Monday, Gabby Giffords cheered Oregon’s house for supporting SB 941 — a bill to require background checks for all gun sales, public or private. She did not mention that her attacker, Jared Loughner, passed a background check to acquire the gun he then used to attack her in 2011.
by AWR Hawkins5 May 2015, 4:51 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

While Oregon Democrats stood with Gabby Giffords and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to push expanded background checks on April 1, Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer stood for the law-abiding citizens whom the checks will target by describing
by AWR Hawkins5 Apr 2015, 11:39 AM PST0

On March 27 Gabby Giffords backed Oregon Democrats in pushing all future Oregon gun purchasers to pass the same background check Jared Loughner passed to acquire the firearm with which he attacked Giffords and eighteen others in Tucson.
by AWR Hawkins3 Apr 2015, 8:07 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

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 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

On March 4, Gabby Giffords joined with Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill to push for background checks at gun shows as a way of “stopping violence.” The NRA responded by tweeting a Breitbart News report which pointed out that Giffords’s January 2011 attacker—Jared Loughner—passed a background check to acquire the Glock with which he carried out his attack.
by AWR Hawkins5 Mar 2015, 6:40 PM PST0

On March 4, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords will join Democrat lawmakers to push for expanded background checks on Capitol Hill.
by AWR Hawkins4 Mar 2015, 6:10 AM 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

Police say background checks cannot stop potential criminals, only actual ones.
by AWR Hawkins10 Feb 2015, 11:31 AM PST0

Let’s cut to the chase: we all remember how the entire left and its vast media apparatus rose up as one to blame the Tucson shootings on conservatives in 2011. The process began during breaking-news coverage of Jared Loughner’s rampage,
by John Hayward22 Dec 2014, 12:17 PM PST0