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The DOJ stressed “zero tolerance” for attacks on law enforcement after an officer was shot just before 11 p.m. Friday near Texas’ Prairieland Detention Facility.

At least 50 people were shot Thursday into Sunday morning of July 4th weekend across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

A Saturday morning shooting in downtown Indianapolis  left seven people shot, two of them fatally.

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) claimed Republicans are pro-life “because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school.”

Eighteen people were shot outside a nightclub in Chicago Wednesday night when three gunmen opened fire from inside a vehicle.

An alleged intruder was shot by a homeowner in Pike County, Kentucky, just before midnight Monday after threatening the homeowner and his family. 

An initial application for a concealed carry weapon permit in San Jose, California, costs $1,443, according to the city’s Police Department website.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Court judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo issued an order granting summary judgment after finding California’s “provisions barring nonresidents from applying for CCW licenses violate the Constitution.”

Campus carry on public college campuses and technical schools took effect July 1, 2025, in South Dakota. 

Kootenai County, Idaho, Sheriff Bob Norris confirmed Monday that the 20-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed two firefighters Sunday used a shotgun.

Charges were upgraded against the alleged June 1, 2025, Boulder terrorist after one of his victims — an 82-year-old woman — died from her injuries.

The grandfather of the suspected shooter who killed two firefighters and severely wounded a third Sunday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, told CNN his grandson wanted to become a firefighter.

The shooter who ambushed Idaho firefighters on Sunday, killing two, has reportedly been identified as a 20-year-old man.

An alleged intruder who used brass knuckles to beat against a front door and break a window just before midnight Friday was shot multiple times by the homeowner and killed.

Two female teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, were shot near New York City’s Stonewall Inn following the city’s pride parade.

A man who opened fire on Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity chapter picnic in Atlanta Saturday night was left in critical condition after at least one concealed carry permit holder returned fire.

During a Sunday night press conference, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris indicated that law enforcement believes the shooter started the fire on Canfield Mountain  in Idaho as part of “an ambush.”

The lockdown in Coeur d’Alene was lifted Sunday after SWAT Team members found a deceased man on the mountain with a gun nearby.

Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris held a press conference Sunday in which he indicated that Idaho law enforcement is not certain how many people may have opened fire on firefighters responding to a brush fire.

An unknown number of firefighters were shot while responding to a brushfire on Sunday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, according to CNN.

New restrictions on concealed carry passed the Oregon legislature last week and are now headed to Gov. Tina Kotek’s (D) desk.

The GOP-controlled Senate added language to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) reducing the $200 tax on suppressors and short-barrel firearms to zero. 

A 64-year-old woman shut down traffic on I-45 in Spring, Texas, Thursday as she sat in a lawn chair in the middle of the interstate and held a gun to her head.

Shortly after midnight Friday, “Sen. Jeff Merkley (D.) announced the NFA provision did not comply with the Byrd Rule,” according to The Reload.

Thirty-seven-year-old Linet Vartanians is accused of threatening to shoot ICE agents in the head when they arrived outside her Tempe, Arizona, home.

Michigan state Sen. Jonathan Lindsey (R) claims a “ghost gun” ban in the 1770s would have undercut the American Revolution. 

A May 24, 2022, tweet from Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani has resurfaced and in it he wrote, “We need to ban all guns.”

Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo posted a photo of himself on Instagram wearing a shirt emblazoned with the words, “Protect Kids Not Guns.”

An officer was injured Wednesday afternoon around 1:45 p.m. in gun-controlled Santa Monica, California, and a shooting suspect remains at large. 

A gas station manager in Prichard, Alabama, shot and killed an alleged armed robber shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday morning.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill over the weekend banning the enforcement of red flag laws in cities and municipalities throughout the state of Texas.

At least 23 people were shot, two of them fatally, Friday through Saturday alone in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

As more details unfold on the shooting during CrossPointe Community Church’s Sunday service in Wayne, Michigan, it appears a deacon in a Ford F-150 ran over the alleged shooter before he was shot dead by a security guard.

Police told Click on Detroit that a security guard at Wayne, Michigan’s CrossPointe Community Church shot and killed an alleged active shooter Sunday morning. 

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed legislation Saturday to remove short-barrel rifles and shotguns from Texas prohibited weapons list.

Rhode Island’s Democrat-run legislature passed a bill Friday banning the instate sale and manufacture of “assault weapons.”