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During 2010 confirmation hearings for her nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States, then-nominee Elena Kagan responded in the affirmative when asked if the “fundamental right” to go ownership is “settled law.”

Breitbart News’ Second Amendment columnist AWR Hawkins is teaming with Armed American Radio (AAR) for a once-a-week rundown of news in the gun world.

ABC News reported Friday that gun control is not playing well in campaign speeches in New Hampshire, where citizens view guns as an important part of defending their lives and the lives of their families.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump used Facebook to release a new ad yesterday warning that politicians are incrementally weakening the Second Amendment and pledging that he will not allow Americans to be disarmed.

During Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate on NBC, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed their stances on gun rights. Sanders maintained his stance that the country needs an instant background check and took

During the January 14 GOP Debate, presidential hopeful Ted Cruz sought to differentiate himself from the other candidates on the stage by suggesting his time in office has proven he does not just talk pro-gun, rather, he is pro-gun.

During the January 14 GOP Debate, presidential hopeful Jeb Bush addressed alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof’s acquisition of a firearm by pointing out that the FBI admitted it make a mistake on Roof’s background check, but a mistake is not a loophole.

During the January 14 GOP Debate, moderator Maria Bartiromo asked Donald Trump if there “are any circumstances in which we should be limiting gun sales of any kind in America?” And Trump said, “No.”

Over the weekend, Breitbart News spoke with Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.-4th) about his push to censure Obama over executive gun control, and Palazzo said, “If the Second Amendment goes down, all our rights go down.”

“President Obama has been hitting the Second Amendment,” and wants to hit it again with more gun-control, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said during the January 10 airing of Fox News Sunday.

During the January 10 airing of Meet the Press, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said armed citizens remind bad guys that “bullets go both ways.”

“Common sense” rhetoric is popular on both sides of the political divide. It’s not as if Barack Obama invented the trope, but he might be the worst abuser currently performing on the political stage… especially because he uses “common sense” in the Orwellian understanding of the term. His CNN infomercial for gun control turned into a disaster precisely because Obama’s agenda is the exact opposite of common sense.

When all the hectoring is finished, the professorial lecturing is done, all the political posturing is over, all that is left are tears. And crocodile tears at that.

Texas Republicans were quick to condemn President Obama’s violation of the Second Amendment through his unconstitutional executive action on gun control.

H-E-B grocers in Texas have put signage on their doors barring openly carried handguns, while Kroger says they will simply abide by the new law which will allow openly carried handguns, beginning January 1.

During an interview with the Daily Mail, actor Kurt Russell affirmed the he owned guns and said that “now is not a good time to lay” them down.

On December 24, author Stephen King tweeted “happy holidays,” even to “NRA types.”

On Sunday and Monday former ESPN analyst Doug Gottlieb took to Twitter for an anti-gun tirade.

During the December 15 under card GOP debate in Las Vegas, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said we should not be able to deny Second Amendment rights “based on a list kept by the government that no one knows how they get on it or how they get off of it.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron has publicly backed a proposed Europe-wide ban on semi-automatic firearms, despite opposition from key allies and even from within his own party. A press release on the Downing Street website says the Prime Minister will

Gun rights groups have planned a mass shooting “dramatization” in Texas this Saturday. The intent is to show the danger of gun free zones. The dramatization, originally planned by The Come and Take It Austin group and their affiliated groups to

Stephen Koff, Washington Bureau Chief for the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been trying to interview Democrat Senate candidate Ted Strickland about his views on gun control in light of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

TEL AVIV – A proper Jewish response to the San Bernardino massacre would be for the American public to “scream bloody murder” against gun violence, argued Jeffrey K. Salkin, a Reform rabbi, in the progressive-leaning Forward newspaper.

In a Sunday night address to the nation that will cement his legacy as a feckless failure in the War on Terror, President Obama demanded the power to strip Muslim-Americans of their civil rights. “To begin with,” Obama said, “Congress

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), who represents southern San Francisco and San Mateo County, has announced that she will boycott any moments of silence for the victims of the San Bernardino terror attack, reinforcing a new left-wing talking point.

On November 28 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump told supporters in Sarasota, Florida, that he is “Second Amendment 100%.”

Michigan state senator Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor) is pushing Senate Bill 611 to repeal her state’s stand your ground law in light of Trayvon Martin’s death and what she suggests are countless deaths that result from gun owners not backing down.

On November 12, CBS NEWS reported that “White House lawyers” are examining gun laws to find an avenue where President Obama can use executive action to go around Congress and expand background checks to cover private gun sales.

On November 2, The Daily Beast pointed to recent statements from President Obama and Hillary Clinton regarding the implementation of Australian-style gun confiscation and suggested “civil war could erupt on American soil” if any administration actually tried to confiscate privately owned firearms.

On October 27 President Obama blamed Chicago’s gun control failures on the state of Indiana and other states that maintain a stronger focus on defending the Second Amendment than curtailing it.

On October 23, Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz observed that the U.S. is one liberal Supreme Court justice away from going after the individual right to keep and bear arms with the intent of hampering, if not abolishing, the exercise of that right.

A CNN/ORC poll released on October 21 shows that more Americans oppose gun control than support it thanks to the bulwark for the Second Amendment that exists in the population’s white majority.

On October 21, a CNN/ORC poll showed that opposition to expanded gun control is higher after the attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC) than before the attack.

During an October 7 campaign rally in Iowa, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton addressed Ben Carson’s calls to arm students for self-defense by saying the idea of arming more people to stop mass shootings is “illogical” and “offensive.”

On October 6 the Christian Science Monitor published an interview with Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson in which he stressed that campus carry is an expression of liberty and warned that banning guns from campuses leads to danger.

President Obama described gun rights supporters as “absolutists” who denounced gun control as “somehow an assault on freedom or communistic or a plot by me to, you know, take over and stay in power forever or something.” “I mean, there are all kinds of crack pot conspiracy theories that float around there,” he continued. “Some of which by the way are ratified by elected officials in the other party on occasion.”