Breitbart News highlighted Antonia Okafor’s National Rifle Association (NRA) ad in which she stressed the pressure that she, as a young black woman, had to overcome in choosing to arm herself for self-defense and take her stand as part of “freedom’s safest place.” Okafor has elaborated by equating gun ownership with feminism.
On August 19, Breitbart News reported that big game hunter Aryanna Gourdin received death wishes and ridicule on social media after posting a photo that showed her standing by a giraffe she shot and killed, her bolt action rifle in the foreground. In spite of the criticism, the 12-year-old declares she will never stop hunting.
On August 28, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts reacted to NRA criticism of Hillary Clinton’s gun control plans by suggesting the NRA’s fight against gun control is an “attack on Americans.”
The concealed carry policy currently formulated by Kansas State University will allow campus-wide concealed carry once the law takes effect in July 2017.
Fifty-seven people where shot and wounded and 10 were killed as another weekend came and went in gun-controlled Chicago.
A PEW Research Center poll released on August 26 shows that 44 percent of all households now own a gun.
Beyoncé brought the mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Oscar Grant with her to the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet Sunday night.
Southern California gang members were given orders to break into homes daily and return to their leaders with “at least $5,000 and a weapon every single day,” according to law enforcement.
A Huntington Beach police officer survived a gun battle after his badge “deflected” a bullet that may have otherwise struck his heart.
A Pew Research Center survey released August 26 shows majority support for protecting the right to gun ownership versus passing more laws to control who can own a gun.
The Secret Service is searching for the source of millions in counterfeit $100 bills that are circulating in the Bay Area.
In explaining his defense of the Second Amendment, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stresses that “the right to keep and bear arms protects all our other rights.”
According to Sunshine State News, the NRA was running ads for Trump before Trump was running ads for himself. Their total spending for such ads is expected to hit approximately $8 million.
Jennifer Youngman used a .20 gauge shotgun to bring down a drone that drifted into her “airspace” after hovering over the home of her neighbor, actor Robert Duvall.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently released a report highlighting state-by-state ownership of guns regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934.
During an August 24 speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, Donald Trump spoke of the danger and ruin that has overtaken much of the black community under Democrat policies and he warned that Clinton will make it even worse by disarming law-abiding single black mothers and others via her campaign against the Second Amendment.
In the early morning hours of August 23, a suspect rammed his truck through the front of Just Target Guns but was only able to steal some ammunition because all guns were locked in a “walk-in style, bank safe” in another portion of the store.
On August 23 author and Conservative Leaders for Education chairman William Bennett warned that the Second Amendment will be a “primary target” of the Supreme Court if Hillary Clinton is elected to the presidency.
Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, points out that the National Rifle Association (NRA) stood with blacks during the 1960s when Democrat-comprised groups like the Ku Klux Klan were terrorizing and attacking them.
Assemblywomen Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) and Ling-Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar) have sponsored a bill that abolishes the tax on tampons and pads as part of the pursuit of “gender equity.”
Gun sales in Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic are rising and recent terror attacks across Europe are cited as a “general” cause behind the increase. Some of the recent attacks were perpetrated with firearms–consider Charlie Hebdo (January 7, 2015)
On August 23, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (R) signed a gun control bill aimed at reducing the record gun violence currently witnessed in the city of Chicago.
On August 24, Governor Chris Christie (R) vetoed a bill requiring retailers to stock “smart guns” and urged Democratic lawmakers to loosen restrictions on concealed carry in the state of New Jersey.
Gun rights activist Maj Toure is seeking to educate his fellow black citizens on the importance of the Second Amendment, gun ownership, and gun safety via his new group, “Black Guns Matter” (BGM).
On August 21, The San Diego Union-Tribune ran a column examining the way gun control burdens law-abiding citizens but gives criminals a pass.
Speaking at the second Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva, Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu blamed Mexico’s rampant gun crime on the U.S. laws and, in particular, cited the absence of a ban on “assault weapons.”
A new sign posted outside the school building in Claude, Texas, gives criminals advance warning that the staff is armed and “may use whatever force necessary to protect… students.”
During an August 23 speech at a Donald Trump rally in Austin, Texas, Pastor Mark Burns denounced “political hacks,” the Clintons’ power grab, and said, “They will never touch my guns!”
On Monday, a 91-year-old concealed carry permit holder shot a robbery suspect in the neck after being confronted in a drugstore parking lot.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel has ruled against three University of Texas (UT) professors who sought a preliminary injunction against campus carry on grounds that allowing armed, law-abiding students on campus poses a threat to First Amendment rights.
The United Way of Otero County New Mexico was told to halt its raffle of firearms after a board member of another United Way chapter filed a complaint to United Way Worldwide headquarters, but the organization has now reversed course
Teachers are increasingly armed in Ohio, and those who carry are being taught to take out “active killers” via “practical violence response training.”
On August 22 Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly praised Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for caving on gun control. Giffords and Kelly subsequently announced that their gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions–is endorsing Toomey and Kirk in the November elections.
Radio host John Cardillo claims that interview segments with noted gun scholar John Lott were included in the earliest version of Katie Couric’s gun control movie Under the Gun, but were taken out at Michael Bloomberg’s request following a private screening.
A new film, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?, depicts women withholding sex until men agree to get rid of their guns.
Dozens were shot–four fatally–over the weekend in heavily gun controlled Chicago.
On August 17, Carlsbad’s Gunther Guns received approval to construct a 16-lane indoor shooting range for which it first applied years ago.
On Friday, federal judge Murray Snow asked the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona to bring criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s leader, Frauke Petry, has stressed that Islamist attacks and the July 22nd Munich shooting rampage stand as proof that German citizens need to be allowed to arm themselves for self-defence. Petry said she opposes
Two shooters opened fire on partygoers at a house party in Bridgeport, Connecticut, wounding 13 in the early hours of August 21, according to police.