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In the ad, a woman who used a gun to survive a knife assault says Donald Trump supports her right to be armed for self-defense but Hillary Clinton doesn’t.

An NRA ad shows a building emblazoned with a sign that shows Election Day as November 9 for gun control supporters.

During a November 5 speech in Reno, Nevada, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Donald Trump will save the Second Amendment but Hillary Clinton will “take it away from you.”

The father of slain Palm Springs officer Leslie Zerebny is publicly opposing Proposition 63, an initiative through which Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to impose more gun control on law-abiding citizens.

Two people were injured and a suspect apprehended during a mid-afternoon stabbing on the Rutgers University campus.

In a November 4 column on post-election gun control, Newsweek explained that if Hillary Clinton wins, she can use the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to bypass Congress for new restrictions on guns.

On November 3 Donald Trump launched the “Second Amendment Coalition,” featuring pro-gun U.S. Congressmen, the NRA-ILA’s Chris Cox, and gun manufacturers like Jesse James and Daniel Defense’s Marty Daniel.

An email contained in the WikiLeaks Podesta email release shows Hillary Clinton speechwriter Dan Schwerin warned that Clinton looked “behind the curve” by pushing gun control for what proved to be a terror attack in San Bernardino, California.

The NFL’s bars players from possessing guns on NFL grounds—including “any stadium or venue being used for an NFL event”—and urges them to consider how “dangerous” owning a firearm can be in other locations. But Eagles wide receiver Josh Huff, originally from Houston, sees it differently.

After taking heat for posting a photo of his three-year-old daughter posing with a rifle, Teen Mom 2 star Jeremy Calvert responded by dismissing the haters and declaring, “NRA all the way.”

A jury found that George Zimmerman shot Martin to death in self-defense on February 26, 2012, after Martin attacked Zimmerman during his walk back from the corner store.

Sales of AR-15s and the earnings of Sturm, Ruger and Co. have something in common during the last portion of the current presidential election cycle: both are skyrocketing.

The previous record was 1,976,759 background checks, set in October 2015, but the latest FBI figures show 2,333,539 checks were performed in October 2016. That is an increase of 356,780 background checks.

Noor Salman, wife of the Orlando Pulse nightclub attacker, Omar Mateen, says she met him on an online dating site, Arab Lounge, and that roughly six months into their marriage, he allegedly began beating her.

In an exclusive interview given to AR-15 manufacturer Daniel Defense, country music legend Charlie Daniels reminds Americans that disarmament is key to the slide toward totalitarian government.

A Pizza Hut employee who shot and killed an armed robbery suspect early Sunday morning has been given a “leave of absence” over the incident.

During a Halloween night speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump as a sellout to the “gun lobby.”

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s spokesman, Dan Newman, released a statement in which he thanked Senator Kevin de León for “admitting he was wrong.”

The operator said, “What’s your name?” Mateen responded, “My name is, ‘I pledge of Allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic state.'”

On Sunday, a Cyber Depot clerk shot and wounded a robbery suspect who allegedly entered the store, “flashed a gun,” and demanded money.

Kids who handed over their toys were given a prize and their guns placed into an art project that featured a mosaic of “a brightly colored hand flashing a peace sign, surrounded by surrendered toy guns.”

Some Florida parents have made clear they will be responding to the “creepy” clown problem by carrying guns as they take their children trick-or-treating.

Seventeen people were shot and killed and 41 others wounded over the weekend in the gun-controlled Chicago.

During an October 30 campaign speech in Greeley, Colorado, Donald Trump reiterated his pledge to “save” the Second Amendment and “protect the right to keep and bear arms.” Donald Trump said: Hillary wants to effectively abolish the Second Amendment… I

On October 28, GQ magazine published an article in which readers were encouraged to view guns as “tools” and understand that “Owning 17 guns isn’t that extreme.”

Gun scholar John Lott discovered a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “coding error” which hid the fact that accidental gun deaths hit a record low in 2014.

During an interview with the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies director John Malcolm, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out that jurists tend to act like the Second Amendment “doesn’t exist.”

On October 28, GQ magazine published an article which highlighted the fact that banning “assault weapons” would have nearly zero effect on crime.

During the October 28 airing of CNN’s Newsroom with Carol Costello, gun control proponent Mark Kelly rejected the idea that Hillary Clinton wants to ban certain types of guns and said she simply wants to “[keep] communities and families safe.”

On Tuesday, the restaurant chain Arby’s — renowned for its roast beef — used pro-hunting commercials to launch a line of venison sandwiches in select markets.

An October 26 Gallup poll shows that support for a handgun ban has fallen 13 percent since 2004.

In a June 2013 report issued in response to President Obama’s post-Sandy Hook executive order for “research [into] problems in firearm-related violence,” the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) observed that national surveys indicate guns are used defensively “500,000 to more than 3 million times a year.”

In a column that ran Sunday, Chicago Tribune reporter and editorial board member Steve Chapman made clear that the Constitution, particularly the First and Second Amendments, ought not be entrusted to Hillary Clinton.

An October 26 The Oklahoman editorial warns readers that Hillary Clinton has the Second Amendment in her “cross hairs,” and she is going after it if elected to the White House.

A Gallup poll released October 26 shows support for an “assault weapons” ban is at a 20-year low.

In a report issued Friday, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) noted the momentum for opening campuses to concealed carry for self-defense and warned that allowing permit holders to carry may actually cause violence and increased “assaults.”