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President Joe Biden claimed AR-pistol stabilizer braces make pistols shoot “higher caliber” bullets during the Safer Communities Summit.

Footage released this week shows Visalia, California, EZ Mart Liquor Store clerk Krish Singh exchanging gunfire with a 16-year-old armed robber in the heavily gun-controlled state.

House Democrats are seeking to use a discharge petition to circumvent Republican leadership and bring gun control to the floor for a vote. 

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) used the seventh anniversary of the Orlando Pulse attack to push gun control that the Orlando Pulse attacker passed to acquire his guns. 

During a Monday mark-up hearing for H.J. Res. 44, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) defended the ATF AR-pistol stabilizer brace rule but could not explain what the rule does nor how long a prison sentence could be for breaking the rule.

More than 17 percent of the annual firearm murders in the U.S. occur in gun-controlled California, according to the most recent CDC figures.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution Thursday which he hopes can be secured and used to restrict gun ownership.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) signed legislation Friday that prohibits concealed carry for self-defense in movie theaters, on beaches, in stadiums, and numerous other places. 

A 65-year-old man who shot a 32-year-old alleged knife-wielding robber in Queens this week is now facing 26 gun charges.

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

Seven shootings killed two people and wounded a further eight overnight in Democrat-run Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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.

On Tuesday Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tweeted a video of Ronald Reagan praising California’s waiting period and background check legislation and claimed Reagan would be kicked out of today’s Republican Party for saying kind words about gun control.

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.

CLAIM: During Friday’s airing of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) claimed an AR-15 rifle is an “automatic weapon.” VERDICT: False. AR-15s are semiautomatic firearms.

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.”