Michael Bloomberg and other national gun rights opponents have dumped money into the Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, primary elections in hopes of defeating pro-gun Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. Clarke drew the ire of gun rights opponents in January 2013 when he asked
The once hardcore “Conservative Republican” and staunch supporter of the National Rifle Association, Democrat Charlie Crist, has just received a “D” rating from the national gun rights organization that once gave him their full-throated endorsement. While Crist was a Republican, and being
As Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly raised money for Maine gun control gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud (D) this weekend, they also had the opportunity to meet “privately with Republican former President George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara at
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America has pulled out of an Arlington Heights, Illinois, event “after the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) rallied its members to attend and protest the event.” The event – National Night Out in
On July 25 the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit “eliminated the injunction” against the enforcement of Florida’s “gun gag” law, which restricts doctors from asking patients if they own a firearm unless asking is necessary to
On July 24, MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow and Jonathan Alter discussed the NRA’s “Trigger the Vote” campaign for the upcoming November elections, and the overall success NRA voters have over Democrats in midterm elections. Farrow said the NRA’s current campaign “is
On July 21 Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts tweeted that Virginia’s congressional candidate Mike Dickinson is her group’s “next target.” This was in response to a July 20 tweet in which Dickinson, a self-described
Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, Paul M. Barrett described Ted Nugent as a “crazy” gun nut who spews “racist venom.” Gun Owners of America’s executive director Larry Pratt was described as a zealot who, like our Presbyterian forefathers along the New
Congressional candidate Mike Dickinson (D-VA) is offering $100,000 to anyone who can provide him with a nude photograph of Texas Tech Cheerleader Kendall Jones. On July 5 Breitbart News reported Jones was receiving death threats and had become the object
During a Rolling Stone interview published July 9, Michael Bloomberg said the three successful Colorado recalls were only so because the NRA targeted senators in the parts of the state “where I don’t think there’s roads.” Those backwater, roadless areas
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg scoffed at rural Colorado’s reaction to gun control during an interview with Rolling Stone in this month’s magazine, suggesting that only the parts of the country without even the most basic components of civilization would be
Former America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh is hosting a new show on CNN on which he vows to keep the push for gun control and the war on the NRA alive. According to The Wrap, Walsh said: I’m the father
Spike Lee says America is addicted to violence, and he knows who to blame for it. The firebrand director, promoting his new Kickstarter.com-funded film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, told TheWrap.com this week that a combination of factors influenced the
Audiences may not have realized it, but the sleeper 2013 hit The Purge targeted the NRA and the Tea Party movement. The storytelling was inelegant, to put it kindly. Critics caught the slams, though, and the film’s director copped to it
On June 24, CNN Commentator Mel Robbins said the next time there is a mass shooting “don’t jump to blame the NRA and lax gun laws.” Rather, “look at the shooter and the mental health services he did or didn’t
Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) is telling the public that his primary opponent, New York Republican Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, supported New York State’s 2013 gun control legislation even though Tenney clearly voted against the bill. The Hanna camp tweeted out on
Liberal radio host Mike Malloy is reacting to broadened firearm carry rights in Georgia and open carry demonstrations around the county by promising to cause a public panic, perhaps resulting in the death of the person lawfully–and openly–carrying a firearm,
Defensive handgun sales began booming following Elliot Rodger’s Santa Barbara attacks, and the boom continues as far away as Louisiana. Gun store owners in Louisiana cite Santa Barbara as the reason for the unprecedented sustained surge in handgun sales they’ve
After rallying voters against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) last week, on Monday, the Gun Owners of America (GOA) endorsed Joe Carr, a Tennessee state representative who is challenging Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in the August 7th GOP primary.
California lawmakers are considering the creation of an ammunition registry that will require ammunition purchasers to go through a background check–including fingerprinting–and obtain an “ammunition purchaser permit” before getting ammo. The registry is contained in Senate Bill 53, which passed
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $250,000 to the pro-Thad Cochran super PAC “Mississippi Conservatives” in late May, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings the organization provided show. Bloomberg’s donation to the Super PAC supporting Cochran could end up
As the open carry debates heats up in Texas, Open Carry Texas (OCT)–a gun group that has garnered national attention in recent weeks–has apparently been receiving threats on a regular basis. “We get death threats all the time,” C.J. Grisham, President of
Given the cultural winds blowing through the entertainment community, Second City’s American Mixtape might be as fair and balanced as one can expect. The traveling show, playing through June 29 at the Garner Galleria Theatre in Denver, hits both bleeding
On June 9, Esquire columnist Charles P. Pierce addressed the Las Vegas attack that killed two police officers by criticizing law enforcement’s support of the NRA positions on guns. He went so far as to state that a police officer
On June 8 The Daily Beast ran a column by Dean Obeidallah which argues gun rights opponents either need to get serious about opposing gun control or forget it. It is time to go big or go home. According to
