Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Environment Karnig Ohannessian is under investigation after a video emerged that appears to show him pointing a handgun at two men outside his home.
While House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and other GOP lawmakers vacillate on gun control, combined with the language of terrorism, Gun Owners of America (GOA) warns that guns should not be part of the post-Orlando conversation. Rather, the focus should be on abolishing gun-free zones–like Pulse Orlando–and arresting the individuals who are named in terror watch lists, if those lists are actually reliable.
One month after saying he would not press for more gun control, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer (D) is calling for the ability to break with the pro-gun attitude of Kentucky and enact more gun controls in the City of Louisville.
Just days after Governor Jerry Brown signed an “assault weapons” ban on rifles with “bullet buttons,” among other California gun laws, the inventor of the button has introduced the “Patriot Mag Release,” a device that makes even the AR-15 California-compliant.
But Politico reports that Paul Ryan is standing his ground, for now. And that he met with Representatives John Lewis (D-GA-5) and John Larson (D-CT-1)–two leaders behind last month’s gun control sit-in–in hopes of talking them into forgoing more disruptions of House business.
The House of Representatives reconvened for a legislative session July 5, and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) leadership is calling on CBC rank and file to “be as disruptive to (House) Speaker (Paul) Ryan (R-WI) as possible.”
New FBI figures show June 2016 is the 14th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales.
Since January 1, gun-controlled Chicago has had more homicides than Los Angeles and New York combined.
In the early morning hours of July 5, BNO News reported a suspected gang-related double murder in Phoenix as a “mass shooting.”
In 1989, California became “the first state to ban assault weapons,” and since that time, it has enacted a steady stream of gun controls, only to see violent crime rise and high-profile shootings–including terror attacks–betray the lie that gun control saves lives.
Breitbart News reported on June 30 that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) blinked days after a Democrat-sponsored sit-in, announcing he would allow a gun control vote this week. Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich-3rd), however, has issued a warning about HR 5611.
Gun-toting action star Matt Damon of The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, and The Departed, says he wishes the U.S. would implement a gun ban similar to the one Australia implemented in the 1990s.
The City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department (PRD) rejected Prescott Pete’s Highfalutin Shooting Gallery for its July 4 celebration on the basis that the gallery made guns look “fun.”
On Sunday, a man with a samurai sword caused a lockdown in a Los Angeles neighborhood after barricading himself inside a cutlery store.
During his July 1 speech at the Western Conservative Summit, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lauded the National Rifle Association (NRA) and his relationship with the group, saying, “We’re saving your Second Amendment 100 percent.”
On July 1, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring residents to surrender or otherwise dispose of all high-capacity gun magazines.
An armed grandma who confronted three suspects in her home said, “I decided that it’s either them or me.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is asking companies that design and print college admission papers to stop inquiring about students’ criminal records.
In the wake of “gunpocalypse,” Second Amendment supporters in California are vowing civil disobedience: “Come and take it.”
Seattle is destroying “$30K in used police guns” instead of making those guns available for sale to low income families and single mothers in need of means to defend their families.
A Quinnipiac University poll released June 30 shows a majority of voters believe all would-be gun buyers should be required to pass the same background check Orlando gunman Omar Mateen passed for his firearms.
When House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) allows a gun control vote next week it will be focused on reviving Senator John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) already rejected, post-Orlando gun legislation.
On June 30, a licensed gun carrier opened fire on multiple attackers in Detroit’s west side, seriously wounding and hospitalizing one.
On June 30 lawmakers declared “full-blown war” on the Second Amendment by giving final approval to a body of gun control legislation known as “gunpocalypse.” It now sits on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.
Turkey, which recently suffered an attack in the Istanbul airport by a terrorist with an AK-47, has a complete prohibition on private ownership of semiautomatic rifles, firearm licensing requirements, and background checks.
During a June 29 interview, Gwendolyn Patton — spokesperson of the LGBT gun rights group Pink Pistols — said, “We teach queers to shoot and we teach the world we did it.”
On July 4, inmates in Maricopa County who normally wear stripes and pink underwear will be given new uniforms “adorned with American flags.”
Slayer frontman Tom Araya delivered an impassioned speech about the important of gun rights during a recent concert in Switzerland in which he stressed how private gun ownership allows a person to defend himself and his country.
On July 1, businesses that disarm concealed carry permit holders with gun-free signage will be liable for the safety of those permit holders.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) will allow a vote on legislation dealing with terrorism and guns next week.
On Tuesday, 9-year-old James Savage set a new record by swimming “from Aquatic Park to Alcatraz and back” in the icy waters of the San Francisco Bay.
A concealed carry permit holder stopped an attempted mass shooting outside Playoffz nightclub on June 27.
A new study conducted by Stanford researchers suggests that California has groundwater resources “three time greater” than previously estimated.
The Vermont Mayor’s Coalition (VMC) is pushing for an expansion of background checks in their state less than three weeks after Omar Mateen killed 49 people in Orlando with guns he acquired via a background check.
On June 29, the National Rifle Association (NRA) launched a pr0-Trump ad narrated by Benghazi Survivor Mark “Oz” Geist, USMC (ret.).
LGBT advocacy organization Human Rights Campaign (HRC) partnered with 49 celebrities to produce a video this week honoring the 49 Orlando terror attack victims and to call for increased gun control measures.
On June 29, The New York Times observed that the Republican opposition to gun control is beginning to crack ever so slightly. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and others are ready to support gun control proposals if those proposals are framed in the language of terrorism.
In a follow-up to their failed sit-in for gun control, House Democrats are using June 29 as a “National Day of Action” for gun control.
On Monday night, Kern High School District (KHSD) board members voted unanimously to allow concealed carry permit holders to brings guns on campus for self-defense.
In the weeks after the Orlando terror attack, Gabby Giffords has been fighting for more gun control, while gays have been fighting for more guns.
