Connecticut 5th District candidate Bill Stevens opposes universal background checks for gun sales unless similar checks are put in place for speech and other rights enumerated in constitutional amendments.
On April 6, a custom machine shop in Odessa, Texas, released photos of a Glock handgun it reworked to look like the pistol used in Nintendo’s “Duck Hunt.”
Kingsburg Joint Union High School District in California’s Central Valley will be voting April 11 to arm teachers and staff so that the threat response time can be “immediate” and students can be protected from any attack.
The Pentagon says the suspect in Thursday’s crazy Los Angeles police chase was discharged early from the U.S. Marine Corps due to sub-par “character of service.”
Over 97 Pennsylvania residents tried to buy or transfer a gun each hour during the first three months of 2016. The raw numbers come from the Pennsylvania State Police, whose Quarterly Firearms Purchase Denials report for the Pennsylvania Instant Check
There was a “36 percent” increase in the number of background checks conducted in January, February, and March 2016 compared to the number conducted during the same time period in 2015.
When Governor Jerry Brown rallied with crime victims on steps of the State Capitol Thursday, he did not mention his 2016 ballot proposal seeking accelerated release for numerous prison inmates.
President Barack Obama has coughed up some more documents at the center of a years-long House investigation into the “Fast and Furious” scheme that cost at least one U.S. border patrol agent — Brian Terry — and smuggled thousands of guns to drug cartels.
On April 7 the Alaska Senate passed campus carry legislation that also allows persons with concealed carry licenses to carry their firearms in dormitories.
Three suspected intruders allegedly broke into a home early Friday morning, were met by gunfire, and one of the suspects was killed.
More than 100 medical groups are pressuring Congress to fund more gun-control research even though fire and water lead to far more accidental child-deaths than do firearms.
During the April 7 airing of ABC’s The View, host Jedediah Bila countered anti-gun arguments by asking why law-abiding citizens should be denied an AR-15 if the criminal who attacks them is armed with one?
During an April 4 meeting with New York state legislators, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton suggested New York gun crime is driven by guns crossing the border from Vermont.
The Mississippi House concurred with the Senate by passing legislation on Tuesday to abolish the requirement for a concealed carry permit in the state.
On April 6, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched a new program whereby he will show appreciation for the military service of incarcerated veterans by allowing said veterans to play and interact with dogs from the Maricopa County Sheriff Office’s (MCSO) MASH Unit each Wednesday.
On April 6, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) issued a press release calling on the Democratic Party to practice what they preach and disarm guards and security at the upcoming Democratic Convention.
Concealed carry is surging in Orange County, with permits in the county up “nearly tenfold” over the past two years, the Orange County Register notes.
During an April 4 interview, Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders reiterated his defense of lawfully made and sold firearms and made clear his belief that family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims should not be allowed to sue Bushmaster.
An armed citizen intervened in a parking lot attack, saving a loss prevention officer from an impending “tire iron” assault at the hands of robbery suspects.
Former PM John Howard says Australia needs to undertake a “sensible strengthening” of the gun ban imposed by his government in 1996.
On April 4 a citizen openly carrying a handgun shot and killed a suspect who allegedly attacked him for trying to deescalate a verbal assault on a Middle Eastern man.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is asking the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to launch an investigation that will block the release of the smartphone-shaped gun designed by Kirk Kjellberg.
Maintenance worker Ed Clayton said he “decided to bring his concealed weapon because the doors to the church had been breached earlier in the evening.”
Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is constantly campaigning against select retailers in hopes of securing bans that prevent law-abiding citizens carrying guns on store premises.
FBI figures show that March 2016 was the 11th consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.
A study conducted by political scientists at the University of Illinois in Chicago claims that opposition to gun control in the United States could be the outgrowth of “white resentment.” The study was originally published in an academic journal, titled
The Bay Area city of Richmond, California pays would-be killers $12,000 a year not to murder people with guns.
On March 31 an elderly man on oxygen was allegedly attacked by two men in his home, but he stopped the attack by grabbing his gun and shooting one of the suspects in the abdomen.
Country music superstar Miranda Lambert attended Sunday’s County Music Awards wearing “a tiny gun” on her pink stilettos. New York Magazine described Lambert’s shoes as something “only the NRA could love.” But they captioned of photo of Lambert’s shoes with a more
Following news that Greensboro, North Carolina-based The Fresh Market caved to Moms Demand Action and will no longer serve armed law-abiding citizens, Breitbart News thought it timely to provide a list of businesses that refuse submit to the campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens.
Californian Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom is hitching his 2018 gubernatorial campaign to a statewide ballot proposal that would sharply restrict the sale of ammunition.
Gun owners in Idaho and West Virginia can now carry their weapons concealed without a permit, allowing Gun Owners of America (GOA) to claim victory over “Bloomberg’s billions.”
An armed citizen cornered armed robbers and told them, “My gun is bigger than yours.”
A new Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) report shows that guns were stolen from licensed dealers at a rate of .039 percent in 2015. This revelation comes even as the Obama administration is working to finalize and implement new rules
North Carolina-based grocer The Fresh Market says it will refuse to serve law-abiding customers who carry guns for self-defense. The decision came amid pressure from the Micheal Bloomberg-funded group, Moms Demand Action, which claims to have “gathered nearly 4,000 signatures
Campus carry for colleges and universities in Tennessee cleared another hurdle Tuesday and now heads to the Senate for a vote.
On March 31 Governor Terry Branstad (R) signed the Hearing Protection Act, making Iowa the 42nd state to legalize the sale and possession of suppressors for firearms.
A major tenet for Democrats at the state and federal level is gun control, and one would not be wrong for observing that the kind of gun control pushed is often similar — if not identical — to past or existing gun controls that have failed to deliver the reduction in death and violence promised.
A Rasmussen Reports poll released March 31 shows slightly more than four out of five Americans reject the plan for Democrat-run cities to pay killers not to kill with guns.
On March 29 the Mississippi Senate passed a bill that will allow each church to designate a certain number of congregants as armed guards for the defense of the congregation as a whole.
