On January 9 two leaders in the gun control movement took off the mask and made plain that their desire is not just to limit illegal guns or go after illegal gun owners but to target “legally obtained” firearms as well.
On January 7–the day after the heinous attack in the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood international gun-free zone–the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Tweeted that you can “carry a gun and ammo in a checked bag” when you fly.
In a January 4 “exit letter” to the American People, President Obama again listed what he regrets most about the last eight years. Number one on the list was his failure to secure gun control.
As Missouri lawmakers convene for the 2017 legislative session, they will consider legislation that holds gun-banning businesses liable for injuries against concealed carry permit holders who are disarmed via the businesses’ gun-free policies.
A Texas state lawmaker has pre-filed a gun bill that if passed, will broaden the places a licensed to carry (LTC) holder can enter and would bring the State closer to “constitutional carry,” the author says. He hopes to eliminate all “gun-free zones.”
The family of late pop singer Christina Grimmie has filed a lawsuit against the “gun-free” concert venue in which she was shot and killed on June 10, 2016.
Missouri state Representative-elect Nick Schroer (R-O’Fallon) is introducing legislation that will allow concealed carriers to sue if injured in a gun-free business.
On November 18, the Pentagon issued a Defense Department directive that will “allow Department of Defense (D0D) personnel to carry firearms and employ deadly force while performing official duties.”
Authors Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos appeared on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss their new book, The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes. If their names sound familiar, it is because they are the subjects of the book, as well as its authors: two of the three Americans who saved countless lives by stepping forward when terrorist Ayoub el-Khazzani attempted to stage a massacre on a train from Brussels to Paris in August 2015.
Texas has a “30.06 and 30.07 Information Resource” which lists “Second-Amendment unfriendly” businesses.
Tim Schmidt, president and founder of the U.S. Concealed Carry Association, was a guest on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the weekend’s terror attacks. As SiriusXM host Alex Marlow noted, they were further examples of the jihadist strategy of hitting “soft targets” or “anti-gun safe spaces” featuring large numbers of unarmed victims.
The St. Cloud, Minnesota mall in which the September 17 mass stabbing occurred is a “gun free zone.”
On September 14 Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12) called on the Republican-led House to allow a “gun vote” on new versions of old controls that Democrats have been pushing for years.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Six individuals were shot, leaving one dead in New Orleans, Louisiana outside of a convenience store after the City recently expanded “gun-free zones” to now include public parks and recreation facilities.
A Police Foundation report on the San Bernardino terror attack shows that three unnamed men “sacrificed themselves” by charging Sayed Farook and Tashfeen Malik once the couple opened fire.
In his latest book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, John R. Lott Jr. points shows that from 1950 to 2010, not one mass public shooting took place in an area where citizens could arm themselves in self-defense.
The only known, living terrorist connected to the May 3, 2015, attack at the Muhammad Art contest in Texas, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, is set to be sentenced on September 15. Kareem is a former Baptist who converted to Islam. His given name is Decarus Thomas.
A new sign posted outside the school building in Claude, Texas, gives criminals advance warning that the staff is armed and “may use whatever force necessary to protect… students.”
On August 18 Gun Owners of America (GOA) highlighted “the lie behind gun free zones” by pointing out that disarming good guys does not disarm bad guys.
Two students were robbed at gunpoint in a Florida State University (FSU) parking lot on August 16, just months after Florida Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Miguel Diaz de la Portilla (R-Miami) killed campus carry.
On Saturday, armed men allegedly herded customers into a back room and robbed the safe of a Jack in the Box. This makes at least the fifth armed robbery of the restaurant chain since they asked law-abiding customers to refrain from carrying guns into the store.
Senator Murphy blasted Trump’s stance against gun-free zones. He told the audience at the DNC that Trump is “doing the bidding of the gun lobby.” And he said Trump’s plan to allow teachers to carry guns is “sinister.”
On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho opened fire with a handgun on gun-free zone Virginia Tech University, killing 32 unarmed innocents. Less than a year later, in March 2008, Governor Tim Kaine (D) vetoed a bill intended to mitigate the chances of such a slaughter reoccurring by allowing Virginians to keep a loaded gun in their car for self-defense.
The president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association said he is a “Second Amendment guy” but asks people who are protesting at the Republican National Convention to leave their guns at home: “We will be watching you if you are carrying and this takes away our resources.”
In the wake of the semi-truck attack in Nice, France, the question has to be asked: Would such an attack have been successful if that country had a Second Amendment?
In the introduction to the Dallas Police Memorial, CNN’s Don Lemon listed 11 mass shootings that occurred on President Obama’s watch. And although Lemon did not point it out, 10 of those mass shootings occurred in gun-free zones.
While House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and other GOP lawmakers vacillate on gun control, combined with the language of terrorism, Gun Owners of America (GOA) warns that guns should not be part of the post-Orlando conversation. Rather, the focus should be on abolishing gun-free zones–like Pulse Orlando–and arresting the individuals who are named in terror watch lists, if those lists are actually reliable.
HOUSTON, Texas — When asked what she thought about the Obama Islamic cover-up of the Orlando Pulse terrorist, “If it quacks like a duck, it is a duck,” said a gay woman at a free concealed handgun license class in Houston.
Organizers for the Houston Pride celebration have declared the parade route and other parade events to be “gun-free” despite open carry and concealed handgun laws in Texas.
Organizers for the Houston LGBT Pride celebration have declared the parade route and other pride events to be gun-free zones. The move comes less than two weeks after the Orlando Islamic terrorist attack at a gay nightclub — another “gun-free zone.” It also follows a threat of gun violence on Twitter.
Wisconsin state representative Bob Gannon (R-Slinger) wants gun-free businesses to pay triple damages in the event that an unarmed law-abiding citizen is harmed during an on-premises attack.
The president of the Cleveland Ohio police union warns that cops and convention goers are “sitting ducks” at the 2016 Republican National Convention. The City of Cleveland is ill-equipped to handle the thousands of professional leftist, Black Lives Matter, and other protesters and there is just under a month to go before the convention.
During the June 17 airing of the Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh used rhetorical questions to drive home the point that “a gun-free zone is a red flag to a bull.”
In the wake of the Orlando terror attack–carried out by a gunman who ignored the Pulse Orlando’s gun-free designation–liberals are eagerly working to limit the Second Amendment rights of citizens throughout the country.
Yiannopoulos says that gun-free zones are making American society more dangerous, particularly for minorities.
Gun free zones harm the very people they’re supposed to help, said Milo.
Pulse, the Orlando gay nightclub targeted in a jihadist terror attack, was a “gun-free zone” by state law.
UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar allegedly shot and killed professor William Klug on Wednesday over a computer code. LAPD says Sarkar, who killed himself after allegedly murdering Klug, had accused Klug of “stealing his computer code and giving it to someone
Wednesday’s murder/suicide on the UCLA campus again exemplifies the fact that gun-free zones are not gun-free for the criminally inclined.
Actress Debra Messing posed for a selfie in support of gun control just as a manhunt began for the suspect who opened fire on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Wednesday morning.
