
On November 12, CBS NEWS reported that “White House lawyers” are examining gun laws to find an avenue where President Obama can use executive action to go around Congress and expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
by AWR Hawkins15 Nov 2015, 6:40 PM PST0

On September 10, the Washington Post reported on Sen. Tim Kaine’s attempt to use the August 26 Virginia shootings as grounds for regulating private gun sales and claimed that this push is being opposed by those who want to “cash in” on tragedy.
by AWR Hawkins10 Sep 2015, 6:18 PM PST0

On July 8, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th) stood with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and families of Charleston victims and pushed for the very background checks alleged gunman Dylann Roof passed.
by AWR Hawkins10 Jul 2015, 8:03 PM PST0

The Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety is actively pushing an expansion of background checks for every firearm sale in Oregon, be that sale retail or private. They present the checks as the same kind of background checks required at Oregon gun shows “since 2000,” even though they admit the background checks at gun shows didn’t really stamp out private sales.
by AWR Hawkins13 Apr 2015, 5:46 PM PST0

Texas state representative Chris Paddie (R-Marshall) is proposing two new tax holidays for the Lone Star State–one to coincide with the beginning of dove season and another to coincide with the beginning of deer season.
by AWR Hawkins23 Feb 2015, 1:29 PM PST0

On February 13, Prosecutors Against Gun Violence (PAGV) released a letter stating their support for the implementation of “universal background checks” for firearm sales throughout the country.
by AWR Hawkins13 Feb 2015, 5:19 PM PST0

On January 21, Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety announced that its three month study of online gun sales in Vermont turned up “seven … people [who] were prohibited by law from possessing firearms.”
by AWR Hawkins21 Jan 2015, 8:31 AM PST0