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Vice President Joe Biden called Friday for a ban on “civilian ownership” of “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.

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.

On June 12 the ATF announced that both guns used in the Pulse Orlando attack were purchased legally by terror suspect Omar Mateen.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) shows two interesting facts about Omar Mateen, the man identified by law enforcement as the terrorist who shot up a gay nightclub in Orlando.

Gabby Giffords’s gun control group — Americans for Responsible Solutions — is spending seven figures to air an ad against pro-gun Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).

Voters in California will face a tidal wave of ballot measures in the November general election, on issues from the death penalty and condoms to marijuana and plastic bags.

Micheal Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety is funding a push to bring failed California gun controls to Maine.

On May 13 BET claimed there were “over 500” firearm-related deaths in gun-controlled Chicago in 2015, yet only “55 of them resulted in a legitimate investigation.”

On May 9 — less than two years since universal background checks were hoisted onto the backs of law-abiding citizens in Washington state — Gabby Giffords was in the state campaigning for special protective orders that will allow firearm confiscation.

Authorities say Maryland shooting suspect Eulalio Tordil acquired his firearm “legally,” passing a background check in 2014.

Year-to-date, the number of background checks for gun purchases in Indiana is up more than 100 percent.

Actress Julianne Moore attended a march for gun control on Saturday, telling attendees that gun control “is not a Second Amendment issue.”

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

On Mother’s Day, Barbara Parker–the mother of on-air shooting victim Alison Parker–will be joining Moms Demand Action to campaign for the very background checks that Alison’s attacker passed prior to getting a gun.

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a plan to defend gun rights in general and the Second Amendment in particular. The plan is visible in the policies set forth by Trump as well as his understanding of the value

On May 5 The Daily Beast bemoaned the fact that the Secret Service will perform background checks on all journalists who plan to attend the Democrat or Republicans conventions. In short, this means journalists will now have to undergo government scrutiny

Gun sales in California are surging and on track to equal–if not surpass–the record number of guns sold during 2015.

FBI figures show that April 2016 was the twelfth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.

Hillary Clinton is making a war on personal gun ownership a central part of her campaign for the White House. Here are six of the most outrageous aspects of her effort to incrementally disarm American citizens.

With the impotency of Chicago’s myriad gun controls on full display for the world to see, Gabby Giffords is pushing for the city to add one more: background checks for licensed gun dealers.

A national sheriff’s group is calling on law enforcement officers to refuse to enforce gun controls that infringe on the Second Amendment.

The gun industry added 24,763 jobs to the U.S. economy because of the unprecedented surge of gun sales in 2015, according to an estimate by the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

An April 13 Rasmussen Reports released a poll showing that two-thirds of Americans believe “self-defense” is the main reason to buy a gun.

On Tuesday, actress and gun control proponent Julianne Moore suggested background checks for firearms are comparable to safety requirements for cars, but she did not clarify whether she believes private car sales need federal background checks — even though that statistics show “the average car is 1.8 times as risky as the average gun.”

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.

On March 14, Journey United Methodist Church held an “educational seminar” on gun control in partnership with Nevadans for Background Checks. The seminar was attended by “20 or so congregants.”

During the March 13 CNN Democrat Town Hall in Ohio, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about gang-related gun violence by pushing stricter gun control for law-abiding citizens.

On March 9, Maryland state senator Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery County) said he and his colleagues will not quit pushing gun control until they have an annual “death toll of zero” in the state.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence sent a March 9 email alert urging opposition to Donald Trump for his pro-gun stance on “concealed carry” and because of his support for allowing teachers to defend themselves and their students on school campuses.

FBI figures show that February 2016 was the tenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.

The growing violence and “bloodshed” in Chicago contributed to recording-setting months for background checks in Illinois during 2015, including an all-time single month record in December. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, December, November, August, and June all set monthly records

On February 26, President Obama cited the Kansas shootings during a speech in Jacksonville, Florida, and pledged to keep pushing Congress to pass more gun control.

President Barack Obama claimed Feb. 22 that his executive gun controls will prevent people like alleged Kalamazoo gunman Jason Brian Dalton from getting guns.

On Monday President Obama called Kalamazoo area law enforcement and intimated the Saturday shootings that took six lives demonstrate that executive gun control did not go far enough, saying, “We’re going to have to do more to keep Americans safe.”

During a February 15 campaign stop in Denver, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords called Hillary Clinton “courageous” and assured would-be caucus voters that Clinton will fight for gun control by “[standing] up to the gun lobby.”