gun control

Nine people died in a school shooting in Austria that occurred despite gun control measures including licensing and registration requirements.

Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) Second Amendment weakness, the result of his high profile support for gun control under Joe Biden, is hampering his reelection prospects.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday Walmart is must pay $16,000 in penalties and fees after selling and shipping “realistic toy guns” to the Empire State. 

Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed Democrat legislation into law Tuesday mandating a permit requirement for gun purchases.

Teen Vogue blasted the “extremist” gun rights movement and elected Republicans on Wednesday for pushing legislation to secure national reciprocity for concealed carry.

CLAIM: In a May 14, 2025, article, Teen Vogue claimed “gun violence recently surpassed auto accidents as the number one killer of American children.”

President Donald Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget would cut $486 million in funding from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), according to the New York Times.

At the beginning of this week leftists stopped calling guns the “No. 1 killer of children” and shifted the demographic to claim guns are the “No. 1 Killer of College-Age People.”

Democrats in Connecticut’s House will weigh a bill this week that would allow citizens to sue gun manufacturers, marketers, and dealers over the criminal use of firearms.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) pushed for more gun control Tuesday, claiming, “Guns are the number one killer of young people in America.”

Kathleen Passidomo (R) made it clear Monday that her committee will not take up legislation designed to repeal the minimum gun purchase age of 21 years. 

Florida’s red flag law, gun-free college/university campus zones, and increased minimum purchase age for long guns failed to prevent Thursday’s FSU shooting.

On Monday, the Washington state Senate passed legislation to establish a permit requirement for the purchase of a firearm.

Rep. Diana Harshbarger and 14 other lawmakers are urging Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to end CDC spending on gun control.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) continued his fight to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) by using an X post on Wednesday to remind Americans, “The ATF is Not Your Friend.”

On March 31, 2025, the San Francisco Chronicle sounded the alarm for the gun control lobby, warning that Biden’s “ghost gun” restrictions are “likely to be undone by President Donald Trump.”

Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R) voted with Democrats to defeat campus carry legislation in the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice.

The Colorado House passed the Democrats’ semiautomatic firearm ban on Monday, just over a month after the state’s Senate passed the legislation. 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Justice Lawrence VanDyke issued a video dissent sharing his opinion that the court demonstrated a misunderstanding of firearms in Duncan v. Bonta.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group is praising AL GOP lawmakers for supporting a ban on Glock switches, which are already illegal at the federal level. 

At least 21 people were shot, one of them fatally, over the weekend in Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) used an X post Saturday to make clear his conviction that a state law barring 18-20 year-olds from buying rifles “runs afoul” of the Second Amendment.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group claims “1 in 15 adults have survived a mass shooting” in the U.S., or over 17 million people.

Senate Bill 3, described by the Denver Post as the “most sweeping gun control law”  in Colorado history, will come before a House committee this Tuesday.

The Democrat-controlled Colorado House passed a bill mandating that ammunition in stores be kept behind the counter “like cold medicine.”

Mother Jones published an article Friday expressing concern that all of Joe Biden’s gun controls are now “at risk” under President Donald Trump.

Democrats in Virginia’s General Assembly passed numerous gun controls Wednesday that will now head to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) desk.

Democrat lawmakers in Ohio are seeking to expand the instant criminal background check for a firearm purchase to ten days, alongside pushing gun storage laws and other controls.

White County Resident Circuit Judge T. Scott Webb ruled against a requirement that Illinois residents must obtain an Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card in order to possess a gun in the home for self-defense. 

Sweden is planning gun bans and tighter gun control after the country’s stringent controls failed to a prevent a February 4, 2025 school shooting.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R), heretofore known only for her stridently pro-gun stance, has caved to a gun control push that intends to ban Glock switches in Alabama, even though possession of the devices is already banned federally.

At least five people were shot at a school in Örebro, Sweden, Tuesday afternoon, despite the country’s stringent gun controls.

Failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walz congratulated gun control activist David Hogg for securing the position of Democrat National Committee vice chair.

On Friday, gun control activist David Hogg was elected to the position of vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.

During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher discussed people who praised the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and stated that “it wasn’t that long ago when liberals thought shooting people who don’t

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, suggested Tuesday the Palisades fire and subsequent investigation into how it started ought to make Republican House Members back away from their push to defund and/or abolish the ATF.