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During a June 9 appearance on Chelsea Handler’s Chelsea, California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom said the NRA does not deserve any respect for pushing back against his new gun controls.

The Ninth Circuit’s ruling that Americans have no right to carry a concealed handgun outside the home for self-defense made one thing clear: only Donald Trump can save our gun rights now.

On Tuesday, an Orange County judge, previously censured for allegedly having sex with two women in his chambers, was re-elected by 56 percent of voters.

On June 9, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange denounced the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for ruling against carrying guns concealed outside the home.

The case–PERUTA V. CTY. OF SAN DIEGO–was filed at the 9th Circuit by concealed permit applicants who believe the “good cause” requirement infringed their Second Amendment rights in San Diego and Yolo Counties.

Maine Ethics Commission filings show Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety has given more than $3.5 million to the state’s gun control lobby since 2015.

On June 7, a marijuana dispensary owner shot and critically injured two would-be robbers, one of whom was armed.

Over Memorial Weekend, 163 American flags were snatched from Confederate graves at the Shiloh National Military Park.

On June 7, Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a statement alerting Americans that Obama is taking your grandpa’s guns.

The NRA has entered the fray against Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s gun control initiative via a video showing how Newsom’s measures would make women more vulnerable.

During the June 7 airing of MSBNC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough said the gun rights advocates in Under the Gun were “eloquent,” and Katie Couric tried to present them as “idiots.” Scarborough said Couric’s film was an old-fashioned “hit

Shots were reportedly fired outside a Syracuse anti-gun violence concert around 2 a.m. Sunday morning.

On June 7 the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence president Dan Gross released a statement in which he boasted that gun control is a central plank of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Gross pointed to the fact that Clinton has been consistently

On June 2 a 9-year-old Fresno student refused to comply when told he had to remove his Trump hat while at school.

On June 6 it was revealed that Yahoo–Katie Couric’s employer–was “caught off guard” by revelations that her film Under the Gun contained a misleading editorial pause which cast pro-gun advocates in a bad light.

“Content that would normally reach our nearly one million followers has steadily dropped to a fraction of what it once was, despite our page’s continual growth of new followers,” said a statement from Rob Russo, the social media manager for Alien Gear Holsters, one of the companies now pushing back against Facebook.

FBI figures show that May 2016 was the thirteenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales.

In the early morning hours of June 1, a wife shot her husband after he allegedly assaulted her in front of their 12-year-old daughter.

On June 5 Hillary Clinton made clear she is diametrically opposed to the Founder Fathers’ goal of protecting natural rights via the Bill of Rights. Speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Clinton suggested all constitutional rights are open to government regulation. She

State Senator Jean Fuller (R-Dist. 16) is urging Californians to honor D-Day veterans by voting in California’s June 7 primary.

Nebraska state Senator Colby Coash (R-Dist. 27) is joining hands with colleague Bernie Chambers (I-Dist. 11) in a fight to abolish the death penalty.

During a June 3 campaign stop in San Bernardino, Hillary Clinton referred to the December 2 terror attack as “gun violence,” and pledged anew to “take on the gun lobby.”

The 48th Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Retreat was held in Yosemite this weekend. Ahmadiyya Muslims put an emphasis on non-violence and toleration of non-Muslim religions.

During the June 5 airing of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton outlined her plan to abolish the Second Amendment.

Hillary Clinton twice refused to affirm that the right to keep and bear arms is constitutional, during an interview on the June 5 airing of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Government has a right to regulate the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton said in an interview on the June 5 airing of This Week With George Stephanopoulos,

In response to a pro-gun question during a June 1 town hall event in Indiana, President Obama suggested he is not as anti-gun as the NRA claims.

The June 1 murder -suicide on the gun-free UCLA campus was yet another proof that universal background checks do not stop a determined attacker.

The district attorney for Levitttown, Pennsylvania says a pharmacy owner performed a “public service” by shooting and killing a robber Friday morning.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said Friday that UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar purchased his firearms “legally.”

Days after Katie Couric apologetically admitted misrepresenting pro-gun voices via the insertion of a pause in Under the Gun, director Stephanie Soechtig took a different tack and said she stands by the pause.

Confederate flags are “selling like crack” on eBay although the online auction giant announced it would “prohibit the sale” of the flags following the June 17 attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Vocativ reports that one seller–Paul Riley–sold enough

A woman who was viciously attacked in a parking garage in January is informing gun controllers that she is alive today because she was armed.

Amy Schumer tweeted a partially nude photo of herself on Thursday to celebrate the #WearOrange push for more gun control on National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

During the month of May, gun-controlled Chicago witnessed “nearly 400” shot and 66 persons killed.

Director Spike Lee joined gun control activists Wednesday morning to flip a switch that bathed the Empire State Building in orange light in honor of National Gun Violence Awareness Day.