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Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox reacted to the Orlando terror attack this week, saying in an interview that “background checks are not enough” and expressing hope that Congress will ban “assault weapons.”

Amid the feverish, knee-jerk push to ban AR-15s as a way of ending mass shootings, The Washington Post points out that most mass shooters use handguns, not AR-15s.

On June 15, Senate Democrats launched a filibuster for background checks on private gun sales less than a month after Omar Mateen passed a background check to buy his guns at a retail store.

When confronted by Second Amendment supporters on Twitter, Gretchen Carlson doubled down on her pro-ban stance, sometimes conflating an AR-15 with the 30-round magazines that can be used in such a firearm.

During a June 13 speech presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump warned that Hillary Clinton’s solution to terrorism to disarm “law-abiding Americans.”

President Obama spoke to reporters Monday about the terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and said Omar Mateen had a “Glock which had a lot of clips in it.”

During a June 13 interview on CNN, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) struggled to explain how more gun laws could stop terrorists.

During a June 13 interview on CNN, Hillary Clinton said the U.S. needs to increase its outreach to Muslims, while simultaneously pursuing a ban on “assault weapons” and .50 caliber rifles.

The cover of Monday’s New York Daily News makes no mention of Islam, Islamists, or radical Islamic terror. Rather, it blames the NRA for the terror attack in which 50 were killed and 53 wounded in Orlando.

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

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

Chicago has some of the most stringent gun controls of any city in the nation and also saw 40 of its residents shot–four of them fatally–by Sunday morning of Memorial Weekend 2016.

Military historian Martin KA Morgan suggests “assault weapons” are in high demand in the second decade of the 21st century largely because of Bill Clinton’s efforts to ban them in the last decade.

During the May 21 “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live, hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost mocked Donald Trump for claiming Hillary Clinton wants to ‘abolish the Second Amendment.’

Hillary Clinton supports Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s push for background checks for ammunition purchasers, according to former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

President Barack Obama has drawn criticism from police organizations for his support of anti-police protest organizations such as Black Lives Matter, but today he hosted a ceremony at the White House to honor police and law enforcement officials for their heroic efforts.

On May 10 FactCheck.org examined Hillary Clinton’s gun control aspirations and suggested her praise for Australia’s gun confiscation scheme does not necessarily make her pro-confiscation.

Eight people were killed and “at least 39 other people were wounded” from shootings in gun-controlled Chicago over Mother’s Day weekend.

In the wake of actor Brad Pitt’s co-chairmanship of the May 4 Brady Bear gun control awards gala in Los Angeles, Breitbart News thought it would be prudent to list just a few of the movies from which Pitt has made millions by toting guns.

Former president Bill Clinton claimed enacting gun control was “one of the greatest honors of [his] life.”

On April 30, the tech blog “TechCrunch” examined the Democrat-led push for “smart guns” and concluded the NRA is “right” — that a successful push for smart guns will be followed by a mandate for smart gun purchases, i.e. a form of gun control.

A study released April 20 by the Brennan Center for Justice shows that the murder rate jumped 13.3 percent in America’s biggest cities during 2015. Three Democrat-run, heavily gun-controlled cities–Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington DC–“account for more than half” of the

A rapper on Chicago’s South Side was shot and killed early Tuesday morning while rapping about guns for a music video in a local park.

Chicago has many of the gun controls that Democrats insist are the solution to gun violence — and it also has 169 homicides year-to-date.

Chicago has an “assault weapons” ban, a “violence tax,” burdensome laws on handgun ownership and possession–and 862 shooting victims between January 1 and April 14 of this year.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Governor John Kasich’s hopes that he had overcome the anti-gun reputation he had earned for supporting the Clinton Gun Ban in 1993 may now be dashed, after he told two separate Sunday talk shows that he is considering nominating a Supreme Court justice who might abolish the Second Amendment.

Fighting the National Rifle Association is a loser for national Democrats, but Hillary Clinton is building her campaign on war against the five million member strong gun rights giant, the Chicago Tribune editorial board explained March 17.

Between Thursday morning and 6:29 a.m. Friday, approximately 21 people were shot, 1 stabbed, and 1 killed in gun-controlled Chicago.

Twenty-one people were shot — leaving two dead — in gun-controlled Chicago, during a 20-hour window from Tuesday to Wednesday.

On March 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that it will rehear Kolbe v. Hogan — the case which resulted in Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban being sent back to a lower court for review.

During the March 3 GOP debate Donald Trump said there should be no restrictions on the Second Amendment and stressed that attacks on innocents can be prevented or curtailed if the people have the ability to shoot back.

On March 1, the California Assembly will consider legislation limiting rifle or shotgun purchases to one per month, and another bill broadening the state’s “assault weapons” ban.

Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-RI-1st) is sponsoring legislation that would prohibit persons convicted of hate crimes from purchasing guns, even if that crime was non-violent in nature.

To date, homicides in Chicago for 2016 are approximately 100 percent higher than they were at this same time last year.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) refused last year to intercede and reverse a Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the “assault weapons” ban in Chicago’s Highland Park. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas dissented–Antonin Scalia joining him–suggesting that wordsmiths were finding categories of guns to ban by listing types of firearms outside those explicitly in focus in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).