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Gun Owners of America secured a judgment Thursday in Wilson v. Hanley that blocks the enforcement of Virginia’s universal background check law.

Bloodshed in Chicago continued as at least 12 people were shot, two of them fatally, in the Windy City during the weekend. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed numerous gun control bills Friday, one of which broadens California’s red flag law by adding to the people who can seek an order to have an individual’s guns removed. 

On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 1127, aka, “Glock Ban” legislation, into law.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) has dropped his focus on a special gun control session after his push for an “assault weapons” ban fell flat in the legislature. 

A male child was found shot to death in an alley in Chicago’s Washington Park Wednesday just before 8:00 a.m.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer boasted of gun controls she’s signed while in office, omitting the fact that none of them prevented the Michigan church attack.

Democrats are pushing back on Trump administration claims that Chicago is a “war zone” even as the evidence shows more than 32,000 people have been shot in the Windy City during the past decade alone. 

There have been more than 1,500 shooting victims–fatal and non-fatal combined–in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago thus far in 2025.

At least 30 people were shot, five of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

At least 13 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

Five Pennsylvania Republicans voted with House Democrats on Tuesday to help pass universal background check legislation.

On Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert pushed for more gun control on “long guns” after a sniper used a WWII-era bolt action rifle to attack a Dallas ICE facility. 

Gov. Tim Walz (D) doubled down Thursday by again calling out Minnesota Republican lawmakers for refusing to take part in his push for a gun ban on the most popular semiautomatic rifles in America.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) claimed it is “not acceptable” that Republican members of the legislature refuse to “vote on gun bans.”

Democrats in the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee used the  heinous attack on police officers in York County to push through more gun control Monday.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, is warning that Florida’s newly adopted open carry law is a threat to the safety of all Floridians.

A 27-state coalition is urging SCOTUS to recognize that “plus-ten magazines” are protected by the Second Amendment.

During Wednesday’s Gun Violence Prevention Working Group hearing, Minnesota state Sen. Ron Latz (DFL) argued against women being armed for self-defense unless and until they receive training on using guns.

A MN state senator is pushing a .50 caliber firearm ban in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting in which a .50 cal was not used. 

Texas congressional candidate Isaiah Martin (D) pledges to introduce gun control in Charlie Kirk’s name if elected to serve in Congress. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) described the assassination of Charlie Kirk as “horrific,” then pushed for more gun control, according to The Hill. 

Three students were shot and wounded around lunchtime Wednesday at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado. 

Novelist and gun control advocate Stephen King pushed gun control Wednesday before facts were known in the shooting of Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk.

The Trump administration’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, will make oral arguments against Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban later this month. 

At least 19 people were shot, seven of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

Wisconsin Democrats are pushing a ban that would end licensed concealed carriers’ ability to be armed for self-defense on college campuses. 

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned a lower court ruling and upheld a concealed carry ban Illinois on public transit.

ATF gun recovery and trace data from 2023 for Illinois shows that Illinois is the state of origin from which the majority of guns are recovered/traced.

Gov. Tim Walz (D) confirmed he will call an emergency gun control session and criticized the number of guns and “type of guns” in circulation in America.

President Trump vowed to “solve” Chicago crime after the city witnessed at least 54 shooting victims, seven of whom succumbed to their wounds, over Labor Day Weekend.

At least seven people were shot after gunfire rang out three separate times Monday evening during the West Indian Day Parade in New York City. 

At least 53 people have been shot, five of them fatally, as of Monday morning on Labor Day Weekend 2025 in Chicago. 

Seven people were wounded during a drive-by shooting in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood Saturday night around 11 p.m. 

Tim Walz (D) is weighing an emergency legislative session on gun control after a trans shooter killed two children and injured 17 other individuals last week at a Minneapolis Catholic school. 

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is pushing a repeal of the Gun-Free School Zones Act (1990) in order to make it easier for law-abiding teachers, faculty, and others, to be armed to fend off would-be attackers on school campuses.