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As the Pittsburgh City Council pushes a ban on certain categories of lawfully-owned firearms, the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) warns that the ban will not deliver increased safety for the public.

The gun control “Ban Assault Weapons Now” is pushing a ballot initiative to ban the ownership of “assault weapons” in the state of Florida.

Think Progress expressed shock on Twitter Friday night that the U.S. banned romaine lettuce rather than firearms this Thanksgiving season.

In 2016 current Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) sponsored legislation which designated certain commonly owned semiautomatic firearms as contraband and required the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to seize them from their owners.

JAMA published a new gun control study prefaced with the claim that “semiautomatic rifles” were banned 1994-2004.

A federal district court judge in Michigan ruled this week that a Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) can move forward.

The Montreal City Council is urging Canada’s federal government to enact a nationwide ban on handgun ownership.

Gun control activists who took part in Satuday’s “March on NRA” uttered numerous profundities such as their desire to ban “fully semiautomatic guns” and their belief that it is “ammunition that makes a semiautomatic [an] automatic.”

Congressional candidate Tedra Cobb (D-NY-21) says she supports banning “assault rifles” but cannot publicly admit it because gun control support would cost her the election.

The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) is seeking a court order to stop Deerfield, Illinois, from implementing its confiscatory “assault weapons” ban.

The Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, is giving residents 60 days to get rid of their “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines and empowering the police chief to confiscate them from those who refuse to give them up.

Thirteen-year-old Vermont gubernatorial candidate Ethan Sonneborn, a Democrat, wants the state to pass a gun control bill, and he wants to be sure an “assault weapons” ban is added to it.

The Washington Post editorial board released a video urging Congress to consider an Australian-like ban in the wake of the Las Vegas attack.

With Republican Representatives undertaking efforts to repeal Obama’s Social Security gun ban, Bloomberg is reporting the ban “was a reaction to school shootings like the 2012 Sandy Hook attack.”

Following Friday’s shooting attack by gunman Esteban Santiago-Ruiz at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, former John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport Commanding Officer Kenneth Honig argued on MSNBC that banning people from having guns in their checked luggage would not prevent attacks

In lieu of firearms–which are heavily regulated where not wholly banned–the Colchester Borough Council in Essex, England, is advising residents to use shrubs for self-defense.

The CEO says his letter represents a “request” rather than a “mandate” or all-out ban, but he hopes customers will honor the request and enter Levi Strauss stores unarmed.

On Friday, the government of gun-controlled Australia admitted that hundreds of thousands of “illegal firearms” remain in criminal possession and launched a new amnesty in hopes of persuading said criminals to turn over the weapons.

In January 2016, Facebook instituted a ban on private individuals advertising gun sales and, in July, expanded the ban to include licensed gun dealers, as well.

The Social Security Administration (SSA)has released details on the looming gun ban which was first discovered at it was being fashioned behind closed doors in July 2015.

Former PM John Howard says Australia needs to undertake a “sensible strengthening” of the gun ban imposed by his government in 1996.

Following news that Greensboro, North Carolina-based The Fresh Market caved to Moms Demand Action and will no longer serve armed law-abiding citizens, Breitbart News thought it timely to provide a list of businesses that refuse submit to the campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens.

During the March 3 GOP debate Marco Rubio criticized gun control as “not effective” against criminals but did not mention his vote for a 1999 gun ban while a city commissioner in West Miami.

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz says Marco Rubio voted to “ban guns from parks” while he was a city commissioner in West Miami in 1999. The Rubio campaign responded by claiming Cruz’s allegation is a “desperate” act and a lie.

Kansas gunman Cedric Ford, who shot and killed three people and wounded 14 others Thursday, was a felon who was barred from possessing a firearm.

While he was a commissioner for the City of West Miami in 1999, Marco Rubio voted to ban guns in “county and municipal parks” and other recreational areas and facilities.

On February 3, the gun control group Newtown Action Alliance is asking every business in Newtown, Connecticut, to become a gun-free zone.

On February 4, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced legislation to shield Social Security beneficiaries from having their Second Amendment rights taken away via Obama’s gun ban. On July 18, 2015, the Los Angeles Times reported

On December 10, New Republic issued a call to ban the ownership of any gun—be it a single-action revolver, a muzzle loader, or an AR-15—and they suggested this ban should include police officers as well.

President Barack Obama is a serial-liar of the first order. That is not partisanship talking, that is history and science. And when Obama says, as he did Tuesday in Chicago, I’m not going to “take everyone’s guns away,” that means

Over the weekend “fake guns” and “decommissioned guns” were confiscated at London’s MCM Comic Con, but “BB guns” were allowed if they were held by someone with a license to possess such an air gun.

Opportunistic politicians such as Hillary Clinton and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker demonstrate shocking ignorance of existing gun laws by calling for “urgently needed” measures that have already been on the books for years. Their few new proposals are either meaningless gestures designed to evoke a sympathetic emotional response from listeners, or full frontal assaults on the U.S. Constitution that have no chance of passing either Congress (which no longer matters to totalitarian liberals) or the Supreme Court (which does.)

During an interview in France, pop singer Justin Bieber said if he were president, the first thing he would do is “fix some of the gun laws” in America because, in Canada, “[they] don’t really have any guns, and there’s not gun violence.”

On May 8, 2013–nearly a month after Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) gun control push failed to garner the votes necessary for passage–Breitbart News suggested that gun controllers’ new tactic would be to treat gun owners the way the left treated cigarette smokers and seek a myriad of restrictions for health and other reasons.

In the wake of the murders of WDBJ-TV’s Alison Parker and Adam Ward, former television news personality Dan Rather is urging journalists to seize on gun violence the way they seized on Ebola.

On August 19 the California legislature will take up a new gun control measure, Senate Bill 347–a bill designed to expand the reasons for which California residents can face a 10-year ban on gun possession.