Democrat Gun Control

Knowing gunmakers will flee Colorado over its semiautomatic ban, Gov. Gianforte is letting them know that “Montana is open for business.”

The body of new gun controls signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis (D) means gun store customers will have to have an employee’s assistance to access ammo beginning July 1, 2026.

Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Democratic strategist James Carville believed in “timid” politics.

Just hours after numerous people were wounded and two were killed in the FSU shooting, Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R) defended her vote against a bill that would have allowed college students to be armed for self-defense, saying, “I have zero regret.”

Pro-Second Amendment legislation is flooding the U.S. Capitol under President Trump and Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, best response to date is to claim Trump is protecting “gun CEO profits.”

Gov. Polis (D) signed the semiautomatic firearm ban and residents wanting an AR-15 will have to get an “eligibility card” from a local sheriff. 

Rep. Diana Harshbarger and 14 other lawmakers are urging Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to end CDC spending on gun control.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety is dedicating $10 million to elect Democrat attorneys general who will fight Donald Trump. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the creation of a Second Amendment Task Force on Tuesday, using a memo to tell DOJ employees the task force was created to prevent 2A rights from being treated like second class rights.

FBI director and ATF acting director Kash Patel repealed the ATF’s zero tolerance policy Monday and made clear other rules, including “engaged in the business,” are now in the crosshairs.

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) declined to hear a challenge to New York’s concealed carry restrictions. 

At least 15 people were shot, one of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed new controls into law last week, including one that allows credit cards to track ammunition purchases.

Reps. Darrell Issa (R) and Richard Hudson (R), with Sen. Jim Risch (R), are pushing a bill to bar states from enacting excise taxes on guns.

A semiautomatic firearms ban and ammunition controls secured final passage in the Colorado legislature and have been sent to Gov. Jared Polis’s desk. 

The Colorado House passed the Democrats’ semiautomatic firearm ban on Monday, just over a month after the state’s Senate passed the legislation. 

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) used an X post Saturday to make clear his conviction that a state law barring 18-20 year-olds from buying rifles “runs afoul” of the Second Amendment.

Legislation to lower the minimum rifle purchase age from 21 to 18 passed a Florida House committee on Wednesday. 

Democrat lawmakers in Oregon are pushing myriad new gun controls this legislative session, including a ban on the possession of firearms by persons under the age of 21. 

Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) is introducing legislation today to protect Americans’ gun rights from being squashed by gun control in the event of a national emergency.

At least 15 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

Senate Bill 3, described by the Denver Post as the “most sweeping gun control law”  in Colorado history, will come before a House committee this Tuesday.

Data from PEW Research shows that rifles of all kinds–including those Democrats label “assault weapons”–accounted for only four percent of U.S. gun murders in 2023.

New Mexico Democrats continue pushing a ban on semiautomatic firearms, couching the ban in the language of prohibiting gas-operated firearms.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is pressing Florida’s Republican supermajority to repeal various gun controls enacted following the February 14, 2018, Parkland shooting, including the state’s red flag law. 

State Rep. Braxton Mitchell (R) is pushing House Bill 809 to thwart any further attempt by localities to adopt red flag laws in the state of Montana. 

The Democrat-controlled Colorado House passed a bill mandating that ammunition in stores be kept behind the counter “like cold medicine.”

FBI director Kash Patel was welcomed by ATF Headquarters after being sworn in Monday to serve as the agency’s acting director. 

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) continues to stay on message with calls to “Abolish the ATF.”

FBI director Kash Patel “will be tapped to run the ATF,” according to FOX News, which based the report on two unnamed sources.

An unidentified New York Jets player was “targeted” and robbed at gunpoint in Morristown, New Jersey, last weekend, according to a report quoted by FOX News. 

Thirty Republican Senators have signed a letter urging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to rescind regulatory gun controls implemented during the Biden administration.

Colorado’s semiautomatic firearm ban has passed the senate and all eyes are on the house, where the bill must pass to reach the governor’s desk.

Mother Jones published an article Friday expressing concern that all of Joe Biden’s gun controls are now “at risk” under President Donald Trump.

Democrats in Virginia’s General Assembly passed numerous gun controls Wednesday that will now head to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) desk.

Democrat lawmakers in Ohio are seeking to expand the instant criminal background check for a firearm purchase to ten days, alongside pushing gun storage laws and other controls.