Tag: Gun Ownership

CBS ‘This Morning’ talked gun laws with a panel of six “Millennial Women,” one of whom owned a gun, voted for Hillary Clinton, and supports more gun control.

July 2018 saw the second highest number of background checks for gun sales for any July in history.

The firearms from over 450 Floridians have been seized under gun controls Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed into place following the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that openly carrying a firearm in public is constitutional.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) signed legislation empowering police to confiscate firearms from citizens and extending the wait period for gun purchases to 72 hours.

TEL AVIV – Israel is set to significantly ease its regulations for gun licenses, a move that would see around 40,000 more Israelis acquire a firearm according to Public Security Ministry estimates. 

Firearms licences in Italy have increased by 13.8 percent in a single year and the populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is looking to liberalise home self-defence laws to allow Italians to confront intruders.

During an interview on the June 26, 2018, episode of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, Dick Heller recounted the victory secured 10 years ago in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and made clear even greater victories await if gun owners will simply flood the polls on election day.

A cafe owner tired of being robbed put a sign in his window that says, “Guns Are Welcome on Our Premises.”

The most recent Small Arms Survey finds there are more privately owned firearms than people in the United States.

A Greenville, South Carolina, man with a face tattoo of a pistol was charged with unlawful firearm possession after firefighters witnessed him throw a revolver into the grass.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department seized over 520 guns from the home of 60-year-old Manuel Fernandez last week.

While speaking to a group of activists in San Francisco Hillary Clinton stressed that gun control is a “political necessity” and part of “taking back” the country.

An “assault weapons” ban failed to pass a Delaware Senate committee last week but Senate President Pro Tempore David McBride (D-13) says he will bring it to whole Senate for a vote anyway.

Farmer Jeffrey Scott Kirschenmann tried to register an AR-15 with the state per California’s latest “assault weapons” ban requirements and ended up having his home raided, firearms confiscated, and faces 12 felony counts.

Just over two weeks after the June 12, 2016, Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) supported Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) push for an expansion of gun control that would violate due process.

Google will be adding words like “gun-grips” and “scopes and sights” to its list of prohibited AdWords later this month.

It has been nearly four months since the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Within minutes of that attack the political left called for immediate action, including a ban on AR-15s, a ban on bump stocks, and raising the age to buy any long gun from 18 to 21 years old.

She grew up shooting guns with her dad, is busy pursuing her concealed carry permit, and she’s just out of college. On this week’s Bullets, meet Morgan Sachs, an organizer with “March 4 Our Rights,” who has a few things to say about the Second Amendment and how gun ownership empowers women.

The NRA broke a 15-year fundraising record by taking in nearly $2.5 million for its Political Victory Fund in the month of March alone.

CNN admitted in a report on March 6, 2018, that a Georgia town requiring gun ownership has only seen one murder in six years and maintains a violent crime rate of less than two percent.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the United States on Sunday for not defying the Second Amendment by passing a nationwide ban on guns, blaming lawmakers’ respect for the Constitution on “corruption.”

Whereas in the United States, a background check is sufficient to purchase a firearm, in Italy several more steps are required, boasts an article Saturday in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

Black women in are buying guns and sitting in firearms courses to learn how to defend themselves should they come under violent attack.

A recent PEW Research survey shows that 74% of gun owners believe the right to own firearms is “essential” to freedom.

A Pew Research survey released June 22 shows that two out of three gun owners cite self-defense as the predominant reason for having a gun.

The surge in gun ownership among LGBT community members that began after the June 12, 2016, Orlando Pulse attack has continued and even grown during the first months of the presidency of Donald Trump.

Based on his experiences living in Europe and the “out-of-control” problems now being committed in the name of liberalism in California, model and actor Fabio warns Americans, “Don’t ever give up your guns.”

A Gallup report released December 12 presents the percentage of gun-owning crime victims with the caveat that Gallup does not know whether the victims acquired their guns before or after the crime occurred.

NBC News reports that frightened minorities are arming up following Donald Trump’s November 8 presidential victory.

A smartphone app which launched in late Summer allows gun owners to locate nearby shooting ranges anywhere in the country.

On October 28, GQ magazine published an article in which readers were encouraged to view guns as “tools” and understand that “Owning 17 guns isn’t that extreme.”

A new Harvard-Northeastern study showing Americans increasingly buy guns for self-defense rather than sport has persuaded one of the study’s authors to conclude that Americans buy guns because of “fear.”

A PEW Research Center poll released on August 26 shows that 44 percent of all households now own a gun.

A Pew Research Center survey released August 26 shows majority support for protecting the right to gun ownership versus passing more laws to control who can own a gun.