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In a column focused on school shootings, the Hill pointed out that Everytown for Gun Safety counts any shooting on school grounds, even a bullet hitting a building on school grounds, as a school shooting. 

Biden ATF director Steven Dettelbach giggled Friday as he was presented with an 80-percent lower for an AR-15 as a parting gift following his resignation. Ironically, Dettelbach and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) classified 80 percent frames

I acquired a Heckler & Koch VP40 shortly after it was released in mid-2015 and can honestly say the pistol has functioned flawlessly.

Legislation to create national reciprocity for concealed carry was introduced in the Senate Thursday, one day after similar legislation was introduced in the U.S. House.

There were over 15.2 million National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks performed for gun sales at retail in 2024, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) has introduced legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

Free speech and private gun ownership were paramount in the minds of the Founding Fathers, Elon Musk stressed in an X post on January 6.

A report from the Philadelphia Inquirer indicates LGBTQ groups and others in liberal voting blocs are buying guns for self-defense ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Montenegro’s National Security Council considered new gun controls Friday, including a “complete” gun ban, in response to the New Year’s Day attack that killed 12 people. 

Five people were shot in Washingont, DC, Friday night in a “dispute between known parties,” according to the Metropolitan Police Department. 

Police were called to the Lakeline Mall in Austin, Texas, Thursday afternoon after a shot was fired in what Austin Chief of Police Lisa Davis described as a “dispute between two groups.”

A Colorado law that went into effect January 1, 2025, requires guns in vehicles to be kept in locked containers. 

The man who allegedly tried to explode a Tesla Cybertruck near the Las Vegas Trump hotel had firearms in his possession which he purchased legally. 

Joe Biden’s ATF director, Steven Dettelbach, tendered his resignation December 20, 2024, with an effective date of January 18, 2025. 

A California law that went into effect January 1, 2025, requires licensed gun dealers to warn customers about the alleged dangers of gun ownership.

Ten people were wounded when multiple gunmen opened fire outside a NYC nightclub Wednesday about 11:15 p.m.

A hunter in Louisiana was cited after after confusing another hunter for a deer and shooting him with a 20-gauge shotgun.

Numbers released by the Chicago City Government show nearly 2,800 shooting victims in the city from January 1, 2024, to December 30, 2024.

Israeli midwife Erga Froman talked to FOX News about how the October 7 Hamas terror attack took her from being an individual who had never fired a gun to one who carries a gun daily for self-defense. 

More than 1,000 people were shot — fatally and non-fatally combined — in Democrat-run Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during 2024.

A $20,000 reward is being offered for information to the arrest of the individual(s) who killed three and wounded six by opening fire during a Chicago party.

Sheriff Rick Wells stood in support of a homeowner who fatally wounded an intruder Thursday, noting that people who break into Florida homes should “expect to be shot.”

Special Forces soldier and former CMU quarterback Tommy Lazzaro died after reportedly being hit by a hunter’s stray bullet while driving to help a fellow soldier with car trouble.

An armed man in Harris County, Texas, turned the tables on four alleged armed robbers, leaving three with gunshot wounds. 

An alleged intruder who was shot Thursday night by a Bradenton, Florida, homeowner died Friday morning in the hospital. 

Wisconsin Senate member-elect Dora Drake (D) is pushing for a red flag law in the wake of the December 16, 2024, Madison Christian school shooting. 

The ATF is being ridiculed on social media for using an X post on Christmas Day to wish everyone “Happy Holidays.”

Three people were shot and another person stabbed on Christmas Day in terminal four of Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. 

Suspect Tarell Isaac McMillian is under arrest and charged with murder in the shooting death of Greensboro police officer Michael Horan.

An en banc United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday reaffirmed its prior decision that the felon gun ban is unconstitutional as applied specifically to Bryan Range.

Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer Michael Horan was shot and killed Monday while confronting a man who had been reported with a firearm in a Food Lion grocer.

Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) took a parting shot at Republicans Sunday, describing them as having a laissez faire approach to gun rights that is “too extreme.”

At least three people were shot and killed in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago over the weekend, pushing the total number of murders in the city beyond 550 for 2024.

The gun used by the 15-year-old girl who allegedly opened fire in Madison’s Abundant Life Christian School was purchased legally.

A Salt Lake City, Utah, convenience store employee disarmed an alleged armed robber about or shortly after midnight Sunday.

Less than a week after a 15-year-old girl shot and killed two at a Madison Christian school, CNN went all in to shame fathers out of buying hunting rifles for their sons.