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On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi approved the restoration of gun rights to ten people, one of whom is actor Mel Gibson.

The trans-identifying individual who killed six at a Nashville Christian school originally planned to attack another school but worried she might look racist.

A San Antonio, Texas, homeowner opened fire shortly after midnight Thursday, shooting a suspect who was banging on his door and demanding to be let into the house.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) continued his fight to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) by using an X post on Wednesday to remind Americans, “The ATF is Not Your Friend.”

Reps. Darrell Issa (R) and Richard Hudson (R), with Sen. Jim Risch (R), are pushing a bill to bar states from enacting excise taxes on guns.

On March 31, 2025, the San Francisco Chronicle sounded the alarm for the gun control lobby, warning that Biden’s “ghost gun” restrictions are “likely to be undone by President Donald Trump.”

Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart went on a turkey hunt in Georgia after his March 28, 2025, NFL Pro Day workout and bagged a massive bird.

A 42-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded near Atlanta’s State Farm Arena just before Friday’s NCAA Sweet Sixteen game between Michigan and Ole Miss. 

A second South Carolina death row inmate, 41-year-old Mikal Mahdi, has chosen to have his execution carried out by a firing squad.

A man allegedly trying to break into a car in Chicago about 1:00 a.m. on March 25 was shot and wounded by a concealed carrier..

The Texas Senate passed legislation Wednesday banning the enforcement of red flag laws in municipalities throughout the Lone Star State. 

A report from Reuters on Tuesday indicates the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is weighing a merger of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Vice President JD Vance served lunch to Marines at Quantico’s Dwyer Chow Hall and also took time to shoot a medium-range machine gun. 

The Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling in Garland v. VanDerStok Wednesday, upholding the Biden-era ATF’s rule on “frame or receiver” kits.

Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R) voted with Democrats to defeat campus carry legislation in the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice.

FBI director Kash Patel circulated a memo Monday telling ATF’s workforce a CNN report on plans to cut “as many as 1,000 ATF agents” is “entirely false.”

An alleged assaulter in Hardeeville, South Carolina, died Monday night after unknowingly targeting an armed citizen and getting shot. 

The Florida Senate’s Criminal Justice Committee is weighing legislation Tuesday which would allow college students to carry firearms on campus for self-defense. 

The Colorado House passed the Democrats’ semiautomatic firearm ban on Monday, just over a month after the state’s Senate passed the legislation. 

Comedian Rob Schneider posted a photo to X on Monday in which he holds an AR-15 and describes it as his “anti-Tesla Protection Device.”

FBI director Kash Patel — who is also ATF acting director — plans to cut “as many as 1,000 ATF agents” and move them to the FBI.

Eighteen people were shot Friday night, three of them fatally, during an “unauthorized car show” in a Las Cruces, New Mexico, park, according to the Associated Press. 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Justice Lawrence VanDyke issued a video dissent sharing his opinion that the court demonstrated a misunderstanding of firearms in Duncan v. Bonta.

The North Carolina Senate approved constitutional carry legislation Thursday by a vote of 26 to 18, with Republicans voting for it and Democrats opposing it. 

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group is praising AL GOP lawmakers for supporting a ban on Glock switches, which are already illegal at the federal level. 

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (D) reacted to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s rule blocking a decades-old ATF gun control by calling her actions “absurd.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a rule Wednesday reversing the ATF’s decades-long ban against the restoration of gun rights. 

The North Carolina’s House Judiciary Committee approved constitutional carry legislation Tuesday, and the legislation now goes to the Senate Rules Committee.

At least 21 people were shot, one of them fatally, over the weekend in Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago.

Data compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows that armed civilians stop more mass shootings than police do.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) used an X post Saturday to make clear his conviction that a state law barring 18-20 year-olds from buying rifles “runs afoul” of the Second Amendment.

Legislation to lower the minimum rifle purchase age from 21 to 18 passed a Florida House committee on Wednesday. 

A highlight of the 2025 IWA Outdoor Classics was the partnership between Glock and Aimpoint, resulting in the COA optic on Glock pistols. 

An alleged robber is hospitalized after being shot by a Houston, Texas, mechanic shop owner around 1:40 a.m. Friday morning.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group claims “1 in 15 adults have survived a mass shooting” in the U.S., or over 17 million people.

One person was wounded after a fight led to shots fired outside a Chicago O’Hare terminal Wednesday around 1:00 a.m.