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In the wake of terrible events like the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival outside the Mandalay Bay, it is tempting, and understandable, to demand that our elected leaders “do something.” But what, in fact, would have prevented Stephen Paddock from committing mass murder?

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

Most people might describe the American Dream in terms of career success, monetary wealth, or accumulation of things. For me, it is not that simple.

The state of Arizona enacted a law that bars any future state or local statute requiring the sale of “smart guns” versus traditional guns.

The Arkansas Dept. of Health warns would-be applicants for medical marijuana cards they can have the card or gun buying ability, not both.

2nd Amendment Foundation suing head of Mich. Dept. of Health and Human Services over alleged violations of foster parents’ gun rights.

WaPo observes the Founders protected gun rights so the people could preserve a means of staving off an attack from our own standing army.

The so-called “Trump Slump” for gun sales and gun stocks is proving to be short-lived as gun stocks surge, and May 2017 set the record for most background checks in any May on record.

The Texas Legislature ended its 85th session, passing seven pro-gun bills. Governor Greg Abbott promptly signed two of them into law. The body also protected gun owners’ rights by blocking five anti-gun bills.

Micheal Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety and Gabby Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) are vowing to “spend what it takes” to defeat the national reciprocity legislation currently being considered by Congress.

The Czech Republic is weighing a Second Amendment-like change to their constitution to protect gun rights from an ever-encroaching European Union (EU).

The Advocate ran a column on March 3 that claimed, legal or illegal, all “guns are the problem” and called for the LGBTQ community to rally for more gun control.

Pro-refugee marchers of the ACLU, the local United Nations Association, and other open border groups were countered by armed, Second Amendment advocate Trump supporters at a demonstration in Dallas during the weekend.

The governors of Texas and eight other states have taken aim at California’s restriction on concealed carry permit holders and urge that their citizens “should not be forced to check their gun rights at the [California] border.”

A Pew Research Center survey released January 11 shows that police officers support protecting citizens’ gun rights over passing more gun control by a margin of 3 to 1.

Memet Kocarslan, who owns the Istanbul nightclub where 39 people were gunned down in cold blood minutes after 2017 began, contends that Turkey’s bans on private ownership of popular semiautomatic rifles made it easy for a terrorist who ignored the ban to outgun police and overpower security at the facility.

A Texas Senate bill has been filed to address the high license to carry fees in Texas.

On November 30 Politico reported that Eric Trump killed two deer during a recent three-day hunt in Turkey.

A Waller County district judge ruled Tuesday that there will be no guns in the courthouse complex.

On Wednesday, Smith & Wesson stock fell as Donald Trump’s victory signaled the end of the gun control push that has marked the last term of President Obama.

After taking heat for posting a photo of his three-year-old daughter posing with a rifle, Teen Mom 2 star Jeremy Calvert responded by dismissing the haters and declaring, “NRA all the way.”

There are 17 propositions on the California ballot next month. They range from good, to bad, to downright ugly.

The Texas Attorney General has fired off a brief in the litigation over the right to bear arms in the Waller County Courthouse complex. AG Ken Paxton urges that “Both the law and sound public policy against the chilling of protected speech demand dismissal of Waller County’s claim. He also urges that the Waller County court is without jurisdiction to determine the issue.

Texas has a “30.06 and 30.07 Information Resource” which lists “Second-Amendment unfriendly” businesses.

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said American’s should not own automatic weapons.

During a September 8 speech to the National Press Club, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) suggested right-wingers claim gun rights are “God-given” out of fear.

The University of Missouri issued a clarification regarding reports of head coach Barry Odom’s prohibition on handgun ownership among his football players.

Breitbart News highlighted Antonia Okafor’s National Rifle Association (NRA) ad in which she stressed the pressure that she, as a young black woman, had to overcome in choosing to arm herself for self-defense and take her stand as part of “freedom’s safest place.” Okafor has elaborated by equating gun ownership with feminism.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Waller County, Texas, over the right to bear arms in the Waller County Courthouse complex. Advocates have protested the County’s actions in preventing lawful carrying pursuant to the protection of a new state law.

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.

HEMPSTEAD, Texas — Second Amendment advocates descended on the Waller County Courthouse to support a fellow Texan who was sued by the County after he served notice on them alleging a violation of Texas gun rights.

The Reuters news service has poured cold water on CNN’s overheated claim that the Secret Service warned Donald Trump’s campaign that his gun rights rhetoric seemed to threaten the safety of Hillary Clinton.

HOUSTON, Texas — Texas gun rights activists are converging on the Waller County, Texas, courthouse to protest what they are calling the “tyrannical” actions of the district attorney there. The D.A. sued the founder of Texas Carry, a gun rights organization that sent notices to 76 government entities complaining that officials are violating the law by excluding licensed to carry (LTC) holders. The Second Amendment activists will be engaging in an “open carry protest.”

The president of the Czech Republic has said citizens need to be armed and ready to defend themselves and others in case of a terror attack.

The founder of a gun rights organization has sent notices to 76 government entities alleging they are violating Texas law by wrongfully excluding LTC (licensed to carry) holders. He is now being sued by one of those counties.

Gallup polls conducted within last 12 months show that support for gun control among millennials runs lower than among other age demographics. Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport said, “Millennials are … less interested in gun control than those who are older, so the data suggests it’s unlike a number of other attitudes say like, gay marriage where young people are much more liberal. We did not see that in our data on guns.”