In the middle of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s unsuccessful push to get Kroger to ban guns, they discovered something they can cheer about — Safeway grocers does prohibit law-abiding citizens from carrying guns in their stores.
On April 22 a customer at a Kroger in Little Rock, Arkansas, saw an elderly man surrounded by “seven people,” so he drew his gun and intervened to protect the gentleman.
On April 22, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety attended an Oregon House Rules Committee hearing in support of Senate Bill 941—the same gun control bill being supported by Sandy Hook Promise, the group for whom Tim McGraw is raising money on July 17.
On April 20, The Washington Post ran a column showing that campus carry has been the law of the land in Colorado since 2003, and the results have not been anything like those currently fighting against campus carry claim it should be.
On Tuesday, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America condemned Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) for signing SB 2394, a bill legalizing the permitless carry of guns in bags, brief cases, and luggage without a permit.
Fresh off an April 11 Nashville rally where only 150 people showed up to support her, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts announced that her gun control group is officially boycotting Kroger until the grocer
On April 13, the NRA reported that 78,695 gun rights supporters attended the annual convention–held in Nashville this year–which is nearly 9,000 more attendees than the NRA expected.
On Apirl 11, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America held a rally in Nashville to oppose the NRA’s presence, and it was attended by roughly 150, counting children and pets.
On April 9, NPR corrected the record for groups like Moms Demand Action and news outlets like MSNBC, both of which reported that the NRA was hypocritically pressing for expanded gun rights everywhere, yet barring guns at their upcoming Nashville convention.
On April 1, Cosmopolitan magazine examined the current NRA-backed push for campus carry in “12 state legislatures” and showed that Everytown for Gun Safety has been relegated to imploring students to defeat the NRA or else.
On April 2, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed SB 45, abolishing the need for a concealed carry permit in order to carry a concealed handgun in the state.
Opponents of the Second Amendment and haters of self-defense are facing a relentless barrage of pro-Second Amendment and pro-self-defense legislation in state legislatures across the country.
Moms Demand Action’s Ellyn Grimm said people need to understand that gun control and the 2nd Amendment are “not mutually exclusive.”
On March 20 West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D) vetoed SB 347–the bill to repeal the concealed carry permit requirement in that state.
With female participation in concealed carry classes growing in Michigan, and Governor Rick Snyder (R) signing a bill that allows a woman to get a concealed carry permit in an expedited manner when in a domestic violence situation, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is warning that gun control is the answer, not concealed carry.
On March 17 the Huffington Post ran a column detailing how Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and other members of the gun control lobby are getting decimated by state legislatures across the country.
On March 16, the Florida Senate Higher Education Subcommittee passed SB 176, campus carry legislation, by a vote of 6-3.
Texas is on the verge of leveling the playing field for women by ignoring the demands of Shannon Watts and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and passing legislation to allow women to carry a handgun, concealed on campus, for self-defense.
On February 24, Breitbart News reported that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts wrote an op-ed against arming women for self-defense on college campuses. She actually suggested that opening the door for women to carry guns for self-defense could lead to more sexual assaults.
On Wednesday, Florida’s House K-12 Education Subcommittee ignored gun control groups like Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and passed representative Greg Steube’s (R-Sarasota) armed teachers bill.
Michael Bloomberg-funded gun control groups Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America are currently running a television ad against Campus Carry which says, “Backpacks and bullets don’t mix.”
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America has been on somewhat of a skid for quite some time–from Staples headquarters telling group members to get off its property to Starbucks refusing to ban guns in its stores, Moms Demand Action’s claims notwithstanding, to Kroger, Fred Meyer, Harris Teeter, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) ignoring its gun control requests, as well.
On February 24, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts wrote an op-ed suggesting that campus carry could actually increase sexual assaults on campuses around country.
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.
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.
Kansas senators are now considering Senate Bill 45, a bill which would rescind the license requirement for concealed carry in the state.
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.”
As Washington lawmakers look at clarifying and applying the I-594 gun control package passed by Washington state voters in November 2014, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is claiming I-594 does not go far enough–that it needs to
On February 5 ,Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America announced the “102nd school shooting since Newtown”–the problem is that shooting they referenced was a gang shooting that happened at nighttime. The incident took place about 8 pm at
According to The Lansing States Journal, “The eight women… asked shoppers to shop elsewhere until Kroger prohibits customers openly carrying guns [for self-defense].”
With seven pro-Second Amendment bills before the Colorado state legislature on February 22—including some that would repeal certain gun laws instituted in 2013—Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America urged Democrats to dig in and oppose the repeal of gun control.
On January 26, Aljazeera ran a special report on the state of gun control in America, which included a quote on how Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is making efforts to “undo the damage the NRA has done.”
South Carolina state senator Larry Martin (R) has successfully pushed a bill through subcommittee that bans the possession of guns and ammunition not only for people who caused “bodily injury” via a domestic disturbance, but those who “could have” as well.
