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Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky, is urging members and Facebook fans to attend the June 2 gun control rally sponsored by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety.

Lupe Valdez the sheriff of Dallas County, Texas, is a member of Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, and a solidly against concealed carry for law-abiding citizens on a national basis.

Gabby Giffords is partnering with gun controllers in law enforcement to fight against national recognition of concealed carry permits for law-abiding citizens.

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) is siding with gun control proponent Gabby Giffords and other Democrat lawmakers in opposing national recognition of concealed carry for law-abiding citizens.

Gabby Giffords is still campaigning for every would-be gun owner to pass the same background check her attacker passed for his gun.

On April 25 California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom used a tweet to call out the NRA and suggests lives being saved by gun control.

Gabby Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions – a group that lobbies for gun control at the state and federal level – has a released a poll claiming the NRA has been “overtaken by lobbyists.”

Oregon state Sen. Brian Boquist (R-Dallas) is pushing a confiscation bill that would broaden the number of prohibited gun purchasers as well as require certain individuals “to hand over any guns in their possession.”

Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords responded to the April 10 alleged murder-suicide at North Park Elementary in California by lamenting current levels of gun control and wishing more could be passed.

Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO) have released a position paper explaining how firearm suppressors fight hearing loss and announcing their support for theHearing Protection Act.

An NPR overview of the current push to deregulate firearm suppressors counters the gun controllers’ doomsday claims by pointing to ATF figures which show suppressors “are seldom used in crime.”

On Thursday, Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly announced their newest spinoff, Arizona Coalition for Common Sense, which will be in place to push more gun control on Arizonans.

On Monday, Gabby Giffords’ gun control group Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) tweeted that Americans who want hearing protection should use “ear plugs” not “silencers.”

Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief Jeffrey Hadley will appear with gun control proponent Gabby Giffords Monday to argue against suppressor ownership by “everyday Americans” and to oppose national reciprocity for concealed carry.

Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords is out against President Trump’s immigration policies and claiming toddlers with guns pose a greater threat to Americans’ safety than do the refugees blocked by the president’s January 27 executive order.

In a January 21 CNN op-ed, gun control proponent Mark Kelly pledged that he and wife Gabby Giffords will fight against the pro-gun Trump administration in general and against national reciprocity in specific.

Gun control groups are tripping over one another in an effort to lay claim to defeating Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) on November 8, 2016, suggesting she lost because of her pro-gun vote in April 2013.

Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords was in Nevada over the weekend campaigning for the same background check her attacker, Jared Loughner, passed to acquire his handgun.

On October 24, Politico’s Glenn Thrush published a column in which he described gun control proponent Mark Kelly as a daring man and a “congenital badass.”

Mark Kelly, a gun control proponent like his wife, Gabby Giffords, specifically cites Trump’s support of concealed carry for self-defense in the wake of the June 12 Orlando Pulse attack. In that attack, 49 unarmed, defenseless patrons were gunned down in a gun-free zone.

On October 15, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords was in Newtown, Connecticut, pushing the same background check her attacker passed to acquire his handgun.

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) is sponsoring a presentation of the Guns in the Hands of Artists exhibition in Washington DC October 3-7.

The gunman who opened fire on random persons in Houston on September 26 passed a background check for the rifle and the handgun he used during the attack, reports say.

In a September 8 interview that ran in Glamour magazine, pop singer Kesha said we need to “monitor” gun owners and the guns they own.

On August 22 Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly praised Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for caving on gun control. Giffords and Kelly subsequently announced that their gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions–is endorsing Toomey and Kirk in the November elections.

During his July 27 speech at the Democrat National Convention, gun control proponent Mark Kelly described the absence of new gun laws as one of America’s “greatest moral failures.”

Kesha was playing a late night concert coinciding with the Democrat National Convention in Philadelphia, at an event sponsored by Gabby Gifford’s gun control group, Americans for Responsible Solutions.

“If we’re going to make progress, the message we have to take is that we’re going to be single-issue voters. I don’t care about e-mails or anything else, (but) we need to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is someone who is going to make progress on gun control,” Ed Rendell says.

Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), and others argue that the favorable of the NRA is too great, and success on gun control cannot be achieved by targeting them by name.

Governor Mike Pence (R) is a strong advocate for the Second Amendment who brings an undeniable pro-gun voting record to Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.

But Politico reports that Paul Ryan is standing his ground, for now. And that he met with Representatives John Lewis (D-GA-5) and John Larson (D-CT-1)–two leaders behind last month’s gun control sit-in–in hopes of talking them into forgoing more disruptions of House business.

A Quinnipiac University poll released June 30 shows a majority of voters believe all would-be gun buyers should be required to pass the same background check Orlando gunman Omar Mateen passed for his firearms.

In the weeks after the Orlando terror attack, Gabby Giffords has been fighting for more gun control, while gays have been fighting for more guns.

General David Petraeus is forming a gun control group with Gabby Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly.

The June 1 murder -suicide on the gun-free UCLA campus was yet another proof that universal background checks do not stop a determined attacker.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said Friday that UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar purchased his firearms “legally.”