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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said at CPAC on Thursday that taking guns away from law-abiding American citizens would cause crime to soar.

During recent broadcasts of Armed American Radio I have discussed what I consider the top five most gun rights stories of 2017.

The Liberal Gun Club (LGC) is an emerging gun rights organization with leaders who voted for Hillary Clinton yet refuse to give up their guns.

Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts claims Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) opposition to universal background checks is equivalent to opposing laws to stop the murder of small children.

Media guidelines for CMA Awards make clear that red carpet reporters are not to ask country singers about their position on ‘gun rights.’

Former National Public Radio CEO Ken Stern suggests the liberal media’s coverage of the Second Amendment proves they do not understand guns.

On October 17 Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said having firearms and being armed is “part of the fabric of our nation.”

Breitbart News’s Second Amendment columnist AWR Hawkins won the 2017 Journalist of the Year Award on September 30 at the 32nd Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in Dallas, Texas.

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.

A professor at San Antonio College came to class in full body armor last week to protest a new policy allowing concealed carry on campus.

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.

Czech lawmakers have passed legislation in the lower parliament that would see the right to bear firearms enshrined in the country’s constitution in a move directed against tighter regulations from the European Union.

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.