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The left was gung-ho for gun control in 2016, but in the process of pushing it they got eight things pitifully wrong and suffered huge losses.

The family of late pop singer Christina Grimmie has filed a lawsuit against the “gun-free” concert venue in which she was shot and killed on June 10, 2016.

Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville was burned on November 1st, and the words “Vote Trump” were spray-painted on the outside of it. On December 21 the Mississippi Department of Public Safety made an arrest in the arson case and the suspect is black.

Metallica lead singer James Hetfield says he moved from San Francisco to the Colorado Rockies in part because “showing up with a deer on the bumper” is frowned upon in Marin County.

A coalition of advocacy groups is pressuring the Kern High School District to reverse a decision to allow teachers to carry guns, effectively guaranteeing the teachers will be unarmed should an attacker enter the building.

An explosion at a fireworks market 25 miles north of Mexico City killed “at least two dozen” people on Tuesday, December 20.

In a recent conversation with Breitbart News, Gun Owners of California’s (GOC) Sam Paredes told us to be ready for an all-out ban on semi-automatic long guns in California’s coming legislative session.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence freaked out when Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) signed campus carry into law.

Gun sales in Austria have “quadrupled” as citizens of that nation seek to secure means of self-defense in response to the “immigrant crisis” that has enveloped Europe.

On Monday Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) signed Senate Bill 199, thereby legalizing concealed carry on college and university campuses where school trustees vote to allow it.

On December 17, an astonished New York Times observed that President-elect Donald Trump actually supports “arming people to defend themselves in gunfights.”

Christmas is closing in fast, and many of us could use some last-minute shopping ideas.

Police in Aventura, Florida, say an Uber driver shot and killed a suspect during an alleged armed robbery early Sunday morning.

Democrats in the House and Senate are making clear their plans to “pivot” under Donald Trump, turning from their efforts to push gun control in order to focus on opposing pro-gun legislation instead.

On Friday, Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp cleared police Officers Raymond Camacho and Robert Chavez in the shooting death of Dylan Noble.

Police say a pizza delivery driver was “lured into a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood” by two men but foiled the robbery attempt by opening fire on the suspects, wounding one.

If you have ever thought it would be helpful to have a reference book you could flip through to quickly read up on the actual facts surrounding things like background checks, mass public shootings, stand your ground laws, etc., then John Lott Jr.’s newest book The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies is for you.

Los Angeles County supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis are asking their colleagues to join them in setting aside $1 million in county funds that can be used to help illegal immigrants fight deportation.

As gun sales have skyrocketed over the past 19 months, ammunition sales have also surged, with “17,850 tons” of imported ammunition being sold in the past 12 months.

A homeowner in Miami ended a “string of home invasions” by confronting the invasion suspect and shooting him in the abdomen.

While women are one of the fastest-growing gun-buying demographics in the country, their numbers in Detroit are growing so fast that a gun instructor in the city describes firearms training as the new “therapy session” for women who have been targets of crime.

A feature story published Friday in the The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the manufacturers of many popular guns do not worry about advertising their products because they know Hollywood will advertise for them, often for free.

Following a gun control gathering designed to mark the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack, Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett suggested her grandfather may have lived longer if he did not have a gun for self-defense.

On Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents approved campus carry policies that will go into effect July 1, 2017, when universities in Kansas begin allowing guns to be carried on campus for self-defense.

Individuals openly carrying handguns recently organized and gathered for a “No More Sitting Ducks” demonstration to demand campus carry at Ohio State University.

On December 14, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that California’s ten-day waiting period on gun purchases is constitutional.

On December 14, 2106–the 4th anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary–President Obama boasted of the implemention of gun controls that will not hinder, much less prevent, another Sandy Hook-style attack.

New York pistol permit holders who acquired their permit prior to 2013 are now required to re-certify, but the state has not set up a website through which re-certification can begin.

The entire police force in Bunker Hill, Indiana, walked off the job, citing the town council as the reason they tendered their resignations.

Gun Ownership has nearly doubled since 1993, yet in the 23 years between then and now, the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that violent crime has fallen 77 percent.

December 14, 2016, marks four years since the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School, and ABC News is using the day to draw attention to how President Obama’s emphasis on gun control has largely been coupled with failure to secure any new gun laws.

Gun control groups are tripping over one another in an effort to lay claim to defeating Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) on November 8, 2016, suggesting she lost because of her pro-gun vote in April 2013.

With just over a month left in office and no gun control achievements to speak of during his time in the White House, President Obama has sent the United Nation’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to the Senate for one last shot at ratification.

The Second Amendment Caucus originally launched in 2004 and was renamed in 2009, when it became a “task force.” Massie is redirecting the group, framing it again as a caucus because of the opportunities Donald Trump’s election affords defenders of the Second Amendment.

The group’s gun control PSA rolls through a dramatized script of the events leading up to a firearm-based attack at a high school. The video actually communicates one simple fact: A good guy with a gun could stop the would-be attacker in his tracks before anyone was harmed.

A college student was arrested Monday night after allegedly entering Trump Tower wearing a backpack which contained a large knife, handcuffs, and firecrackers.