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California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) cited the 1997 “gang related” shooting of his 16-year-old cousin Armando this week as a reason for pursuing more gun control for law-abiding citizens.

Commentator Steven Crowder recently set up a booth and pretended to push gun control in order to test the knowledge of everyday Americans who support more gun laws. In short order it was evident that people approaching his booth chose

After recently posting a photo of a giraffe she killed on a hunt in South Africa, 12-year-old big game hunter Aryanna Gourdin came under attack on social media.

On August 18, Under Armour confirmed they were ending sponsorship of Sarah Bowmar, wife of Josh Bowmar, the American hunter who recently made news by killing a black bear with a spear in Alberta.

A recent poll from Rasmussen Reports shows the NRA’s favorable rating is 54% and a Gallup poll shows that Hillary Clinton’s favorable rating is 41%.

Actor Tom Arnold penned an open letter on Thursday contended that Americans who believe gun ownership is a God-given right are “insane” and “unfit” to own guns.

John Hopkins University’s Shannon Frattaroli sees danger in gun ownership among senior citizens, and points out that California’s Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVROs) provide a way that families can have guns confiscated from older relatives.

Mexico has “restrictive” gun control — including comprehensive background checks — and a homicide rate over five times higher than the rate in the U.S.

Two students were robbed at gunpoint in a Florida State University (FSU) parking lot on August 16, just months after Florida Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Miguel Diaz de la Portilla (R-Miami) killed campus carry.

Former Orlando mayoral candidate Randy Ross lambasted President Barack Obama’s attempt to blame guns for the Orlando terror attack instead of blaming radical Islam.

A case revolving around concealed carry permits in California, and the alleged infringement certain permit requirements pose to the Second Amendment, is now on a path to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).

During his August 16 speech in West Bend, Wisconsin, Donald Trump stressed that Hillary Clinton is out of touch with the dangers Americans feel in turbulent times because she — as a member of the political class — enjoys being surrounded by a security detail 24/7.

An American hunter in northern Alberta is drawing outrage from animal rights activist and government officials after hunting a bear with a spear and videoing the take-down with a GoPro camera.

On August 11, a St. Louis man shot and killed his own brother in order to save his brother’s girlfriend from a hammer attack.

Between Friday evening and Monday morning, 52 people were shot in gun-controlled Chicago, nine of whom died.

Blue Shield of California (BSC) will be shutting down for four days following Labor Day weekend as a way to stop the financial bleeding resulting from losses in “Covered California,” the state’s Obamacare exchange program.

An Alaska fishing guide shot and killed a grizzly bear as it charged a female client and her husband, both of whom planned to fish a stream where grizzlies are not common.

Gun sales in California are on pace to break records — perhaps even to reach 1 million sales by the end of calendar year 2016, according to Southern California Public Radio station KPCC.

In a column intended to suggest the National Rifle Association (NRA) is exaggerating Hillary Clinton’s gun control positions, The Washington Post (WaPo), instead, succeeded in admitting that Clinton wants all the gun controls about which the NRA has warned.

In response to the social media outrage over celebrities pushing gun control while making millions using guns on camera, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety stresses that Hollywood “gunplay and real-life violence are not as intertwined as today’s tweet storms suggest.”

A suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of Eastman Police patrolman Tim Smith on Saturday night.

A recently released Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) study shows the number of concealed carry permits in the U.S. has surged by 215% under President Obama.

Early Sunday morning 19-year-old Arshell Dennis–the son of Chicago police officer–was shot and killed on Chicago’s Far South Side. Officers responding to the scene found Dennis “and another man, age 20, wounded by gunfire.”

Gun control initiatives pushed by Micheal Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety are on the ballot in four states this November. The NRA sees this as evidence that Bloomberg is simply buying the gun control Congress has repeatedly rejected.

A carjacking suspect fled the scene after the female driver he approached pulled a handgun and pointed it at him.

On Saturday afternoon an Imam and his friend were shot and killed in Queens as they were walking home from their mosque.

A group of gun rights supporters began distributing petitions to guns stores and firing ranges. The group aims to collect enough signatures to secure a popular vote on gun controls recently passed by lawmakers and signed by Governor Jerry Brown (D).

Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine claims he never loses to the NRA, but he has.

Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble are among a list of companies that refuse to sponsor five-time Olympic medalist and Second Amendment proponent Kim Rhode.

On August 10 – one day after being savagely attacked for describing Hillary Clinton’s plan to “abolish the Second Amendment” – Donald Trump doubled down and pointed out that the media is simply distracting from the fact that the Second Amendment is “under siege.”

Rock band Green Day has returned after a four-year hiatus — and their new single “Bang Bang” is all about mass shootings and the “narcissistic social media” coverage that the tragic events often engender.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich observes that the alliance between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Donald Trump is eroding the Democrats’ hold on rural America.

Speaking at an August 8 town hall in Rocket Center, West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) criticized his state’s recently enacted constitutional carry law, suggesting that relying on the Second Amendment alone as a carry permit will actually increase ambush incidents for police officers.

Kim Rhode also stressed James Madison’s point, that Americans have guns to fend off government overreach and tyranny. Rhode said, “[The Second Amendment is] also to defend ourselves against our own government.”

On August 10 Rush Limbaugh reacted to the media attacks on Donald Trump by observing that Trump had simply told the truth about Hillary Clinton; namely, that she wants to take your guns.

On August 10, the UK’s Independent used the Internet to publish a story arguing that America’s Founding Fathers could not have foreseen “assault weapons.”