The November 5th issue of Runner’s World carries a column by athlete Nick Symmonds calling for a handgun ban for everyone except police and military personnel. The column also calls for a ban on “assault rifles,” while kindly proposing that
The gun control PAC of Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, is launching a new initiative, “Veterans for Responsible Solutions.” According to CNN, the new initiative “will support Giffords and Kelly’s wider efforts by bringing to bear the experience
As Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly were introduced at a gun show in upstate New York over the weekend, the sound of light applause was interrupted with boos. It appears that even after making it clear they plan
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), the PAC of Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly focused on gun control, is being forced to refund money to contributors after being caught accepting illegal donations. One of the illegal donations was tied to
A financial report released by the Federal Election Commission shows that the anti-gun Super PAC started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and astronaut husband Mark Kelly raised $6.5 million in its first six months. The group, Americans for Responsible Solutions,
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) and her husband Mark Kelly will embark on a multi-state tour on July 1st to push for expanded background checks on gun purchasers. Kelly’s gun-control group, Americans for Responsible Solutions, announced the “Rights and Responsibilities”
With gun control defeated in the Senate, Democrats are stepping up efforts to turn guns into the 21st century cigarette and shame gun owners–and their Senators–into submission. Warnings of this approaching storm have been apparent for decades. As in 1995,
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed H.B. 2455 into law Sunday, thereby banning the destruction of guns turned in at gun buybacks or otherwise seized by or surrendered to authorities. Brewer’s office said she received, “2,000 letters, emails, and phone
Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun control special interest group founded by Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, has started running ads against Senators who opposed the Manchin-Toomey background check expansion on April 17. The first two Senators targeted
With the failure of the Democrats’ attempt to exploit the Newtown school shooting to press forward gun control measures, President Obama took to the microphones along with the relatives of Sandy Hook victims to demonize his opposition. This, of course,
UPDATE Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapon ban amendment failed to pass the Senate today. It bans the sale of 157 different semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines. The amendment was long expected to fail. The final vote was 40
In response to Manchin: Gabby Giffords Is Our Whip on Gun Bill: I don’t think, though, that he says he’ll vote “no” on cloture. All I see here is that he’ll vote “no” on the amendment itself. “I believe very
The Senate could vote as early as tomorrow on the Toomey-Manchin gun control bill. Reports indicate the Democrats do not have the 60 votes they need to pass the bill. Former Rep. Gabby Giffords was on the Hill today along
In an April 7 op-ed in the NY Daily News, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords wrote that right now people who “don’t want to take a background check” can “buy as many guns as they want on the internet or at
In an interview that will air on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on April 9, Gabby Giffords looks on from her mother’s porch while Mark Kelly shoots bottles and clay pots in the Arizona desert with a Glock 19 9mm. The gun
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, I’ve also heard some in the Washington press suggest that what happens to gun violence legislation in Congress this week will either be a political victory or defeat for me. Connecticut, this is not about me. This
Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly tell CNN’s Dana Bash that they continue to own guns for recreation.
Breitbart News can now report that although Gabby Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly successfully purchased a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun from Diamondback Police Supply on March 5, the gun store had denied his attempts to buy a handgun approximately two weeks before
Before going to Diamondback Police Supply to try to buy an AR-15 on March 5, Mark Kelly made a video inside his home in which he told his wife Gabby Giffords, “I’m going to the gun store and buy a
On March 22 ABC’s Nightline did a segment focused on how Glock handguns are the scourge of the anti-gun world. Before the segment started, anchors teased it as being framed around America’s love for the Glock. But once it began,
On March 5, gun control proponent Mark Kelly bought an “assault rifle” and a semi-automatic handgun at Diamondback Police Supply, Tucson, AZ. On March 6, he attended a Tucson rally with his wife, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, to “call for tougher
Mark Kelly and his wife, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, testified at the Colorado state capitol in support of more gun control for that state on March 4. Democrats in the Colorado legislature are pushing “high capacity” magazine bans, bans on
Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an “assault weapon,” he called it)–which he now says he intended as an illustration of the need for more stringent gun laws. Kelly reportedly
President Barack Obama addressed the nation on Tuesday evening at the State of the Union. The President gave his speech as law enforcement in California closed in on rogue former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. Dorner, who allegedly shot five people
Gun control is still en vogue. And it seems that former Congressman Gabby Giffords has cemented herself as the face of the campaign. Giffords’ new gun control ad come just ahead of the president’s State of the Union Address, where
I hope everyone has seen the flashback video of Piers Morgan telling Mark Kelly that Sarah Palin should call Kelly’s wife, Rep. Gabby Giffords, to apologize for her alleged role in creating the “Climate of Hate” that led to the
Why are second amendment supporters afraid to discuss Gabby Giffords when talking gun control? It is a tragedy what happened to Mrs. Giffords. As a result of being shot by a deranged Jared Lee Loughner she suffered a physical disability. Can
Today, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was famously shot by mentally ill Jared Lee Loughner in Tucson, Arizona, testified before the Senate on gun control. While Giffords and her husband, former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, testified that they weren’t
George Soros’ Center for American Progress (CAP) has published a list of 13 new pieces of legislation they claim we need right now, in the wake of the crime at Sandy Hook Elementary. As you will see, these proposals–like others from liberals–would
The issue of the moment is gun control. In the last two days, that issue has become a microcosm of how our political dialog is carried out in the media, one that explains why conservatives so often lose these battles.
It is an established fact at this point that the left media only likes to talk about gun control after a shooting in a red or purple state. If James Holmes shoots up a theater in Colorado, which has relatively
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his infamous “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” have struck again–this time with a conference call where he proclaimed the recent presidential elections “proved” the NRA is dying and the American people want more gun control. Did
David Axelrod, senior Obama 2012 strategist, awaits certain rebuke by President Barack Obama today after he violated the guidelines for civil dialogue laid down by the President in the wake of the Gabby Giffords shooting in January 2011 by referring
So, when I hear of an act of terror, an internal clock starts clicking. I wonder, how long before we find out the suspect is a radical Islamist. And then, how long before that affiliation is rejected as vital to
To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this university, the public servants gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona: I have come here tonight as an American who,
From the Associated Press: Federal prosecutors brought charges Sunday against the gunman accused of carrying out an assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at a political event in Arizona. Investigators said they carried out a search
My tears are flowing, and I am stunned and angered that Gabby Giffords was savagely gunned down while performing her congressional duties. I am praying for Gabby, and my thoughts, prayers, and deepest sympathy go out to her family, as