
Breitbart News previously reported that Obama’s executive expansion of background checks to cover more private sales has no minimum sales threshold that a private seller has to hit before he is considered “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.” Therefore, the point at which a private seller must get a Federal Firearms License (FFL) and do a background check on every gun he sells is unclear at best.
by AWR Hawkins7 Jan 2016, 6:52 PM PST0

On January 4, a 65-year-old grandmother in Manchester, New Hampshire, shot a man who followed her home from the gas station.
by AWR Hawkins7 Jan 2016, 6:38 PM PST0

On January 7, The Baltimore Sun gave President Obama kudos for issuing executive orders for gun control, but expressed their desire that he add another measure–a public registry of gun owners.
by AWR Hawkins7 Jan 2016, 2:31 PM PST0

On January 4–the day before President Obama announced his executive gun controls to the nation–the White House released an executive order fact sheet showing that a gun ban for some Social Security beneficiaries was being brought under the auspices of Obama’s executive action.
by AWR Hawkins5 Jan 2016, 1:00 PM PST0

On December 29, actor James Woods reacted to newly released details of the heinous November 10 murder of Amanda Blackburn by urging Americans to “buy more guns and learn how to use them.”
by AWR Hawkins31 Dec 2015, 8:23 AM PST0

On December 28, three armed intruders forced a mother to the back of her house then fled under a barrage of bullets as she opened fire on them.
by AWR Hawkins29 Dec 2015, 5:24 PM PST0

An unarmed man in Lawrenceville, Georgia, was shot on December 28 after pacing back and forth near a 95-year-old woman at a storage facility, then shoving her.
by AWR Hawkins29 Dec 2015, 9:03 AM PST0

On December 25, USA Today correspondent Trevor Hughes wrote a column explaining that he has decided to buy a handgun for self-defense and to help “enemies … understand that we shoot back.”
by AWR Hawkins29 Dec 2015, 8:11 AM PST0

As of December 18, Ohio’s National Guard facilities are no longer gun-free.
by AWR Hawkins28 Dec 2015, 6:17 PM PST0

On December 27, eight people were wounded in a mass stabbing in Anaheim. No firearms were reportedly involved.
by AWR Hawkins28 Dec 2015, 8:52 AM PST0

The FBI reports that November was the seventh consecutive month of record-breaking background checks.
by AWR Hawkins23 Dec 2015, 5:49 AM PST0

During the December 18 airing of The View, actor Kurt Russell said those who fought in the Civil War would not have been able to do “what they considered defending their life, their way, their style of living,” if it had not been for the Second Amendment.
by AWR Hawkins20 Dec 2015, 6:22 PM PST0

On December 16, school board members in Keene, Texas, voted not simply to allow armed teachers, but also to provide the handguns teachers will carry.
by AWR Hawkins20 Dec 2015, 4:22 PM PST0

On December 18 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Breitbart News that armed citizens can “stop the carnage” and take out bad guys “before the cops arrive.”
by AWR Hawkins20 Dec 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

Florida public colleges are requesting $74 million to “fortify” school grounds in expectation of state approval for a “campus carry” guns-rights law.
by AWR Hawkins19 Dec 2015, 7:38 AM PST0

On December 17 the Los Angeles Times provided details of a 2012 terror plot based on court documents. The plot was not carried out, but the details of it show that an armed citizenry could have thwarted it in its tracks.
by AWR Hawkins18 Dec 2015, 1:07 PM PST0

Prosecutors have filed papers in court alleging that San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook and Enrique Marquez planned to carry out an attack in 2012 that included bombing Riverside City College, then shooting drivers and passengers along a crowded stretch of 91 freeway in a secondary attack.
by AWR Hawkins18 Dec 2015, 7:23 AM PST0

On December 16, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch said affluent seniors are buying up handguns in the face of the growing terror threat.
by AWR Hawkins16 Dec 2015, 7:06 PM PST0

In the face of the growing threat of attacks against unarmed students and faculty around the country, southern Indiana’s West Clark Community School District is considering arming a number of teachers in each school for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins15 Dec 2015, 1:39 PM PST0

On December 7, a man and woman pulled their self-defense handguns and stopped an attack in which a knife-welding man had allegedly knocked down a 90-year-old suspect and “was trying to stab” him.
by AWR Hawkins15 Dec 2015, 6:45 AM PST0

Last week Rasmussen Reports released two polls showing majorities with guns in their homes believe they are safer for it and “American Adults” believe the policies supported by the NRA make us safer.
by AWR Hawkins14 Dec 2015, 12:44 PM PST0

Although background checks on Black Friday were record-setting, SK Arms in Midland, TX, says sales the day after President Obama’s terrorism/gun control speech were even bigger.
by AWR Hawkins13 Dec 2015, 5:55 PM PST0

On December 10, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is “tragic” that Americans are pouring into gun stores to buy weapons because America is already “awash in guns.”
by AWR Hawkins13 Dec 2015, 5:04 PM PST0

On December 11, UCLA law professor Adam Winkler argued that securing a ban on “assault rifles won’t reduce gun violence” and will hurt the gun control movement by revealing that “the only thing unique about assault rifles is their menacing name and look.”
by AWR Hawkins12 Dec 2015, 8:54 AM PST0

On December 8 Fox News reported that more than 100 million guns have been sold since the election of President Obama.
by AWR Hawkins11 Dec 2015, 12:37 PM PST0