
The gun control town hall CNN hosted for President Obama was very one-sided. The vast majority of the questions directed at Obama were leading questions centered on gun control, while the few questions or comments that were pro-Second Amendment in nature went unanswered or were only partially answered.
by AWR Hawkins7 Jan 2016, 9:00 PM PST0

A January 4 White House executive order fact sheet previews the executive gun controls Obama will announce Tuesday. These are the five most offensive aspects of those controls.
by AWR Hawkins5 Jan 2016, 7:26 AM PST0

On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals that the Department of Defense and Department of Justice have been directed to expand their use of “smart gun” technology.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 6:59 PM PST0

On December 14, Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe said police departments and the various branches of the military need to use the leverage of purchase contracts to pressure firearm makers into building smart guns.
by AWR Hawkins14 Dec 2015, 5:51 PM PST0

The New Jersey senate is preparing to take up legislation which not only requires every gun store to stock at least one smart gun but also to display said smart gun “in the dealer’s salesroom” too.
by AWR Hawkins17 Nov 2015, 5:24 PM PST0

In a letter dated October 23, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked Secretary of the Army John McHugh to refuse to purchase firearms for soldiers from gun manufacturers who are not actively working on “smart guns” or complying with gun controls that Congress hasn’t even passed.
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 2:23 PM PST0

On July 17 The New York Times reported on the Obama administration’s failure to get any significant gun control passed in Congress by suggesting there is still one avenue open–using federal contracts as a means to backdoor controls on gun manufacturers.
by AWR Hawkins20 Jul 2015, 12:27 PM PST0

On July 3, The Hill suggested fewer police officers would die if smart guns were issued as service sidearms.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jul 2015, 6:12 PM PST0

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted a New York Post report titled, “You’re 45% More Likely to Be Murdered in de Blasio’s Manhattan,” characterizing the report as “fear mongering.”
by William Bigelow26 May 2015, 8:53 PM PST0

Armatix makes the iP1 smart gun, which Democrats raved about and pushed to mandate as the only gun that could legally be sold in New Jersey in 2014. Democrats were joined in this effort by gun control groups like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
by AWR Hawkins24 May 2015, 2:10 PM PST0

California state senator Jerry Hill (D-Dist. 13) has introduced a bill to “mandate” smart guns as the only kind of guns law-abiding Californians can “sell, lend, or give” to another law-abiding Californian.
by AWR Hawkins31 Mar 2015, 1:30 PM PST0

On March 15, The Guardian ran a report suggesting President Obama use his “executive powers” to order “smart guns” for police departments.
by AWR Hawkins17 Mar 2015, 9:39 PM PST0

The Second Amendment Foundation and Calguns Foundation are waiting for California Eastern District Judge Kimberly Mueller to issue a ruling in their request to prevent the state from banning the sale of new handguns which lack microstamping technology.
by AWR Hawkins18 Feb 2015, 7:53 AM PST0