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Gun Owners of America (GOA) is taking the lead against federal gun control and warning that an ATF ban on bump stocks could quickly expand into a ban on magazines and triggers.

On December 4 Breitbart News reported that House Leadership plans to add gun control legislation to Rep. Richard Hudson’s (R-NC) national reciprocity bill when it comes to the floor for a vote.

Jordan Stein: Anything short of repealing the National Instant Check System (NICS) is the wrong move, both practically and in principle.

GOA executive director Erich Pratt issued a press release noting that gun control failed in Texas but an armed citizen saved the day.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) remains frozen on pro-gun legislation even though the Democrats’ post-Vegas gun control push has imploded.

Gun Owners of America sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan urging him to remember that a bump stock ban will lead to magazine bans.

The anti-gun Left is trying to persuade Americans to support a ban on bump stocks in the wake of the horrific Las Vegas shooting.

Piers Morgan continuously irritated his American cousins by acting as if he were a misbehaving British butler.

With the special election for the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama fast approaching, where does Judge Roy Moore stand on the Second Amendment?

Gun Owners of America’s Larry Pratt says Speaker Paul Ryan’s inaction on concealed carry reciprocity gives “dirtbags” the upper hand.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s approval rating has plummeted among Kentuckians as national reciprocity languishes on the sidelines.

Monday on SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), a candidate in tomorrow’s U.S. Senate special election GOP primary in Alabama, credited some “conservative thought-leaders” for keeping him competitive in that race. Brooks is up against former Alabama Supreme Court

In a Thursday report, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety took a victory lap over the fact that the Republicans control the House yet Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) is not advancing national reciprocity.

Gun Owners of America is rallying behind Republican-sponsored legislation that would not only remove suppressors from the purview of the National Firearms Act (1934), but would also remove the background check requirement from their sale.

Gun Owners of America is urging Congress to repeal a 20th century gun control regulation put in place by then Representative Chuck Schumer; a man who has now made a name as one of the most anti-Second Amendment members of the U.S. Senate.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is urging freedom-loving Americans to contact their Senators and urge them to confirm Neil Gorsuch as the next justice of the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday Representative Mary Felzkowski (R-Irma) and Senator Dave Craig (R-Town of Vernon) introduced legislation that would remove the requirement for a permit to carry concealed in Wisconsin.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is warning that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.o still contains measures that will allow doctors, insurance companies, and the ATF to use medical records to further a gun control agenda.

North Dakota has entered the fray and is vying to become the 14th state to recognize permitless carry as the law of the land.

On Monday, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced a companion bill to the National Reciprocity legislation that was introduced in the House by Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC-8) on January 3.

On January 25 Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a list of Obama-era gun controls which President Trump can undo.

On January 11 the NRA Blog listed @AWRHawkins as one of eight Twitter accounts that pro-gun Americans need to follow in 2017.

Larry Pratt, Gun Owners of America (GOA) executive director emeritus, told Breitbart News on Friday that national reciprocity for concealed carry “keeps good people from going to jail” when they unknowingly drive through an anti-gun jurisdiction that exists because of the patchwork of concealed carry laws.

The list includes everything from “exposing Hillary Clinton’s anti-gun agenda” to securing constitutional carry in various states to helping defeat President Obama’s gun-control Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

Indiana state representative Jim Lucas (R-Seymour) is sponsoring legislation that will remove the requirement for a concealed carry permit in order to carry a gun for self-defense.

The NRA’s push for national reciprocity is complimented by Gun Owners of America’s pursuit of the same goal, which means the two most powerful groups in the fight for gun rights will be united in making a concealed carry permit from any state valid in every state.

With president-elect Donald Trump headed toward a January 20, 2017 inauguration, one thing is certain–national reciprocity for concealed carry will have a friend in the White House. On September 18, 2015, Breitbart News reported Trump’s conviction that “concealed carry…is a right, not

On September 15, Gun Owners of America (GOA) pointed out that Republican lawmakers’ override of Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) veto of SB 656 makes Missouri the fourth state to adopt permitless carry this year.

Speaking at the second Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva, Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu blamed Mexico’s rampant gun crime on the U.S. laws and, in particular, cited the absence of a ban on “assault weapons.”

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.

Democrats are claiming that Donald Trump’s comments about “2nd Amendment people” stopping Hillary Clinton’s gun-grabbing agenda was somehow a violent threat. Shills for Hillary like Elizabeth Warren are even calling it a “death threat.”

Gun Owners of America (GOA) just released a radio ad that will run statewide in Arizona, urging voters to support Kelli Ward and end the senatorial run of “gun-grabbing globalist” John McCain.

Gun Owners of America has teamed up with production company Reel Clef to release the short film Praesidium, a film that powerfully highlights the dangers of gun-free zones and the need for armed self-defense.

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.

“I can’t believe that on Independence Day I have to warn people about an unconstitutional GOP gun control bill. Wait—yes, I can. #StopHR5611,” tweeted Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.

During a June 23 appearance on CNN, Gun Owners of America’s Erich Pratt shut down host Carol Costello’s gun violence inquisition by reminding her that she had omitted defensive gun uses.