On March 27 Gabby Giffords backed Oregon Democrats in pushing all future Oregon gun purchasers to pass the same background check Jared Loughner passed to acquire the firearm with which he attacked Giffords and eighteen others in Tucson.
On March 18, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords met with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) to discuss new firearm confiscation laws for the state.
On March 17, Gabby Giffords will be at the Connecticut state Capitol with Governor Dannel Malloy (D) to push for the passage of a gun laws that were actually “enacted 15 years ago.” The law being pushed by Giffords would
In the upcoming biography, “Michelle Obama: A Life,” author Peter Slevin claims the West Wing is blocking release of a video Michelle Obama recorded of herself commenting on the January 8, 2011, shooting of Gabby Giffords.
On Sunday, CBS News Sunday Morning aired video of gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly shooting handguns and rifles, then panned to video of the couple sitting in their Tucson, Arizona, home where Giffords talked about the possibility of running for office again.
One day after the AR-15 ammo ban was delayed, White House spokesman Josh Earnest made clear that President Obama is still committed to gun control and is still pursing avenues for more gun control laws.
As Democrats continue to circle the wagons to preserve gun-free zones, Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th Dist.) is suggesting gun owners support protecting children with background checks, which did not stop Adam Lanza from committing his heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, was turned away twice on gun purchases in 2013 because of certain requirements and stipulations of the current background check system.
On March 6, The Hill reported on a tweet the NRA sent out, claiming the tweet “mocks Gabby Giffords” with the facts.
Giffords is their human shield — the gun control representative who could do and say what she wanted without facing any real pressure to prove her claims were true.
On March 5, brothers Carlton Hipps and Ramone Williams allegedly shot and killed Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III.
On March 6, just days after Democrat lawmakers relaunched a push to expand background checks to gun shows, President Obama did his part by saying, “There are neighborhoods where it is easier for you to buy a handgun… than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable.”
On March 6, MSNBC’s Al Sharpton described the launch of Gabby Giffords’ new background check push, then noted that the “NRA struck back” by pointing out that Giffords is basically asking that all gun purchasers go through the same background check her attacker went through to acquire his gun.
On March 6, the San Francisco Sentinel ran a column by MSNBC’s Steve Benin, labeling the NRA’s tweet on the hypocrisy behind Gabby Giffords’ gun control push a “bad idea.”
On March 4, Breitbart News reported that Gabby Giffords was joining with Democrat lawmakers to push background checks for gun shows so that everyone would have to pass the same background check her attacker passed to get his handgun.
On March 4, Gabby Giffords joined with Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill to push for background checks at gun shows as a way of “stopping violence.” The NRA responded by tweeting a Breitbart News report which pointed out that Giffords’s January 2011 attacker—Jared Loughner—passed a background check to acquire the Glock with which he carried out his attack.
Gabby Giffords demands that everyone buying a gun be required to undergo the same background check Jared Loughner underwent to acquire the Glock he used to shoot her in 2011.
On March 4, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords will join Democrat lawmakers to push for expanded background checks on Capitol Hill.
A new poll shows that Gabby Giffords’ home state of Arizona is abandoning gun control, partly because fears of imported jihadism are growing.
The Washington Post looks across the pond and demonstrates that Europe’s expanded background checks prove useless in the face of a booming black market for guns and radicalized Muslims looking to commit terrorism.
On February 10, DKNY founder Donna Karan will join Michael Bloomberg, Gabby Giffords, Richard Martinez, and Everytown for Gun Safety for a gun control push that will be marked by the sale of custom bracelets bearing the message “Not One More.”
Police say background checks cannot stop potential criminals, only actual ones.
Gun control proponent Mark Kelly—husband of Gabby Giffords—described a recent video by Open Carry Tarrant County’s Kory Watkins as “disgusting.”
The NRA-ILA is suggesting Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), ought to rename themselves “Anti-Gunners for Irresponsible Statistics” in light of their “bogus claim … about the number of firearm and car accident deaths among young people each year.”
On January 15, Breitbart News reported that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) bucked the NRA and stood with Gabby Giffords against pro-gun bill SB 789.
As 2014 was a terrible year for the gun control lobby (GCL)–a year in which Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly, the Brady Campaign, and the machinations of Moms Demand Action were thoroughly rejected–the new plan for the GCL appears to be “Motion-Is-Progress.”
On January 15—just over two months after winning a gubernatorial re-election with the NRA’s endorsement—Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) bucked the NRA and stood with Gabby Giffords in opposing a bill which would have “revised” his state’s concealed carry law.
On January 14, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) gave his State of the Commonwealth address, in which he called for a limit on the number of handguns Virginians can buy each month and a law to allow concealed carry permits to be revoked from those who fail to pay child support.
While other outlets are calculating exactly when gun control died on the federal lave, New York Magazine (NYMAG) is saying hold your horses! Gun control isn’t dead. Heck, “honest deliberations about gun control have not even begun.” Learning heavily on
On January 8, 2014—four years after Jared Loughner’s attack on Gabby Giffords and other innocents at a Tucson Safeway—President Barack Obama met with Giffords in Phoenix, Arizona and praised her gun control efforts.
When Democrat Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis admitted to faking her pro-gun positions in an effort to defeat Republican Greg Abbott she put herself in line with a growing number of Democrats who’ve claimed to be pro-gun in order to
Two months after taking a beating in the 2014 midterm elections, the gun control lobby is revamping its language and redirecting its energies toward what it views as vulnerable states.
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–the gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly–is seeking advice and trying to raise money “in the wake of repeated legislative and election defeats,” according to The Washington Times,
In January 2014, Breitbart News reported that 2013 had been “The Year of the Gun.” Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) didn’t intend it to be that way, but it emerged as the year gun control was defeated.
Unlike citizens in 1968, we have to be smart enough to keep the pressure on our Senators and Representatives so they know we are not looking for a crackdown on guns, but a crackdown on lawlessness.
On December 17, pro-Second Amendment candidate Martha McSally (R) was officially declared the winner in the race for Arizona’s second congressional district over pro-gun control Representative Ron Barber (D-AZ-2.) Arizona’s second district is gun control proponent Gabby Giffords’ former seat
Pro-gun candidate Martha McSally (R-AZ-2) leads Representative Ron Barber (D-AZ-2) by 161 votes as the recount for Gabby Giffords’ former seat begins. This is Arizona’s “first-ever congressional recount.” According to The Arizona Republic, Barber tried to lessen McSally’s lead by
After spending $10.6 million in the Nov. 4 elections and “barely [winning] half its contests,” Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans For Responsible Solutions (ARS)–says it will be back in 2016. But Politico describes this as “a steep task,” and that
There has not been a peep out of gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly since the midterm elections. On November 5, Everytown for Gun Safety released a post-election video somehow claiming the elections that gave Republicans historic gains
Pro-Second Amendment candidate Martha McSally (R-AZ) holds a 341 vote lead over pro-gun control incumbent Ron Barber (D-AZ-2) for Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District–Gabby Giffords’ former seat–with the remaining provisional ballots in Pima County slated to be counted today. The Arizona