Democrat Gun Control

Barack Obama called for more gun control and got significant pushback on Twitter on Friday, which was National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

At least 21 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

When Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) spoke with Breitbart News this week, he pointed out that AR-pistols registered with the ATF via the stabilizer brace rule will be illegal in five states.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden again made the false claim that guns are the number one killer of children in America.

Pennsylvania Democrats advanced two of four gun controls Monday; one creates a red flag law for the state while the other one implements universal background checks for long gun purchases. 

The season finale of NBC’s “Law & Order” presents the assassin of a Senator who voted to protect the Second Amendment as the true victim.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed red flag legislation into law Monday despite ongoing questions about whether it will enforced or, if enforced, how such enforcement would occur.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed legislation Friday containing a red flag law and universal background checks, both of which are already in place in California and are failing to stop mass shootings.

A Maryland man has been showing up at a bus stop every day with an AR-15 for weeks, explaining his neighborhood is paying police to do something regular citizens can do for free.

Maine State Rep. Suzanne Salisbury (D) voiced support for gun control measures moving through the state legislature, suggesting lawmakers have to look beyond the Second Amendment and act in light of “real world experience.”

A number of gun control bills passed by Democrats in Nevada have been blocked by the state’s Republican governor.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) vetoed a trio of Democrat-sponsored gun control bills Tuesday, just ahead of a press conference in which Democrats were allegedly planning to try to pressure him into signing the measures. 

The Supreme Court of the United States announced Wednesday it has chosen not to intervene against the Naperville “assault weapons” ban, but instead will let the judicial process run its normal course.

On Tuesday, Minnesota’s Democrat legislators passed many of the same gun controls that are failing to stop mass shootings in California. 

Activists seeking restrictions on the Second Amendment are fond of citing “homicide rates” instead of raw homicide numbers. They do this because it allows them to skirt any admission of gun control failures in blue states.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) introduced legislation Monday to repeal the gun control Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) helped President Joe Biden secure in the summer of 2022. 

President Joe Biden used a tweet on Sunday to reiterate his push for an “assault weapons” ban, but he also took aim at “100-round” ammunition magazines.

Gun control proponent Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is hinting that there could be a “popular revolt” if the Supreme Court of the United State strikes down “assault weapons” bans or other favored Democrat gun laws. 

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) is introducing legislation to raise the minimum purchase age for a semiautomatic firearm to 25. 

Breitbart News spoke with presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy (R) about the left’s knee-jerk gun control reaction to high profile shootings and noted his conviction that the focus should be on things like mental health and the breakdown of the nuclear family, rather firearm laws.

Texas state Rep. Justin Holland (R-Rockwall) caved to gun controllers Monday and voted in support of a bill, HB 2744, to raise the minimum purchase age for AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) is calling the Democrat Caucus to meet and discuss ways to act on President Biden’s request for more gun control.

In the wake of Saturday’s Allen, Texas, mall shooting, Mike Bloomberg gun control affiliate Shannon Watts criticized Lone Star State lawmakers for not raising the minimum purchase age for AR-15s to 21. 

Part of President Joe Biden’s reaction to the mall shooting in Allen, Texas, on Saturday was to go after Republicans by saying, “Tweeted thoughts and prayers are not enough.”

CLAIM: President Joe Biden reacted to the Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by claiming “there have been roughly 200 mass shootings” in America thus far in 2023.

CLAIM: Rep. Colin Allred’s (D-TX) campaign manager, Paige Hutchinson, says a recording in which Allred suggests things would be better in the United States if the Second Amendment had not been written is “highly edited.”

An audio recording captured by Congressional Republicans in 2018 presents Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), suggesting things would be better in the U.S. if the Second Amendment had not been written.

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), cosponsored universal background legislation in the U.S. House on March 1, 2021.

A coalition of gun rights groups filed a lawsuit against California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases Tuesday, claiming that the state-imposed delay “isn’t analogous to any constitutionally relevant history” and therefore cannot survive the Bruen (2022) test.

A National Shooting Sports Foundation report on April background checks shows gun sales surged in states where “radical measures” against Second Amendment rights have been adopted or are about to take effect.

U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn issued a preliminary injunction against Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban Friday, noting in his opinion that there are already plenty of gun laws on the books and those laws need to be enforced.

Pennsylvania House Democrats passed a package of four gun controls out of committee Wednesday, making it possible that the gun controls could go before the whole House sometime next week.

A poll released Thursday by FOX News showed a majority of voters support an “assault weapons” ban, but it revealed the driving force behind the ban is over 80 percent of Democrat voters.

“Shazam” Adam Brody, “Yellowstone’s” Piper Perabo, numerous other celebrities, as well directors and producers, took part in a White House Roundtable Wednesday and demanded less gun violence in Hollywood productions. 

ATF director Steven Dettelbach was questioned by Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) Wednesday and would not say whether Americans will go to jail if found with an unregistered pistol brace once registration period expires.

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) bump stock ban is “ambiguous” and reversed a lower court’s ruling that upheld the ban.