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Attorney General Kamala Harris is fighting a 2014 court ruling that declared California’s ten-day waiting period for gun purchases unconstitutional.

Americans have a constitutional right to own a gun, but not to drive a car. During a conference with First Lady Michelle Obama, actress Julianne Moore indicated that she wants to change that.

The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) reports that nearly 2,700 guns were confiscated from the carry-on bags of individuals boarding planes in 2015.

In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, tech author Jon Stokes pointed out numerous reasons smart guns and smart gun configurations “would actually make us less safe.”

New data from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) shows that gun sales skyrocketed following the December 2 San Bernardino terrorist attack.

Despite President Obama’s calls for more “smart gun” research, development, and use, “smart gun” technology still lacks momentum.

A January 13 poll released by Rasmussen Reports shows less than one-third of Americans trust the federal government when it comes to guns.

“Smart Guns” failed in California in March 2014 and in Maryland in May 2014, yet President Obama’s executive gun control contained an order directing the DOD, DOJ, and Homeland Security to explore ways to “further” the use of “smart guns.”

During the January 7 CNN gun control town hall, President Obama mocked Americans who are concerned that the executive expansion of background checks will be followed by an executive push for gun confiscation.

The gun control town hall CNN hosted for President Obama was very one-sided. The vast majority of the questions directed at Obama were leading questions centered on gun control, while the few questions or comments that were pro-Second Amendment in nature went unanswered or were only partially answered.

Thursday while President Barack Obama was hosting a town hall in Fairfax, VA broadcasted on CNN about his gun policy, Chris Cox, the executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, reacted to Obama’s effort on Fox News Channel’s

In the wake of Friday’s tragic shooting in Tel Aviv’s bustling city center – taking two lives and wounding ten – Israelis scramble for answers to an evolving and unpredictable security threat.

‪Everyone knew that Barack Obama intended to infringe on American’s gun rights this week. It’s not as if Obama had been hiding it. He announced his intentions in advance, and then proceeded to drop a series of executive actions that, if implemented, would require the creation of a national gun registry.

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is now selling “Obama agenda shooting targets” at MikeHuckabee.com in response to President Obama’s executive action on Tuesday requiring universal background checks among other restrictions on firearms.

A January 4 White House executive order fact sheet previews the executive gun controls Obama will announce Tuesday. These are the five most offensive aspects of those controls.

On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals that the Department of Defense and Department of Justice have been directed to expand their use of “smart gun” technology.

Muslim convert Enrique Marquez was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on five counts–including conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and false statements made regarding two guns, which he stands accused of providing as a “straw purchaser,” used in the December 2 San Bernardino terror attacks.

When he President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968, he signed a bill a that did not contain two of the items he wanted most–licensing requirements for all gun owners and registration for every gun in the country.

On December 22, The Daily Beast criticized the ongoing availability of AR-15s, suggesting shotguns are a sufficient type of weapon but are largely rejected as a substitute for ARs because they “lack capacity for mass carnage.”

On December 16, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch said affluent seniors are buying up handguns in the face of the growing terror threat.

On December 14, Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe said police departments and the various branches of the military need to use the leverage of purchase contracts to pressure firearm makers into building smart guns.

Organizers of Crossroads of the West gun show in Del Mar, CA, expected a weekend crowd large enough to exceed twice the normal show attendance.

“It’s tragic that in the immediate aftermath of a series of high profile mass shootings that people feel like they have to go out an purchase a gun,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during a press briefing with reporters today.

Thieves broke into a Texas sheriff’s official vehicle this weekend, stealing eight guns and a law enforcement jacket. The break-in occurred on Saturday while the sheriff lunched in a Houston-area restaurant.

WASHINGTON D.C.—The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a city ordinance in Illinois restricting so-called “assault weapons.” Two justices dissented from the Court’s denying review and noted a disturbing trend against the Second Amendment.

Some of you will be inconvincible – and I have a lot of sympathy with you. I write this from San Diego, California, where the sight of a policeman with a holstered weapon is commonplace, though still deeply disconcerting for

JERUSALEM – There’s an entire country that would probably differ with the White House’s off-key assertion that gun control will help deter terrorists.

As news was unfolding Wednesday during the San Bernardino, CA shooting, Fox News Channel host Shepard Smith echoed a claim a made by President Barack Obama at the COP21 summit in Paris in which he said more mass shooting of the

The Huffington Post and left-wing commentators are outraged that CNN invited pro-life Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R.-Ill) to talk about the shooting happening at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.

A homeless man living in an encampment in Los Angeles was found armed with two machine guns, four handguns, two makeshift silencers and ammunition. He was arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.

Police in northern Italy stopped a Turkish man attempting to transport a load of 781 pump-action Winchester SXP shotguns north into Belgium and seized the merchandise.

As of November 23, there had been 2703 shootings which resulted in 440 deaths year-to date in heavily gun-controlled Chicago.

The New Jersey senate is preparing to take up legislation which not only requires every gun store to stock at least one smart gun but also to display said smart gun “in the dealer’s salesroom” too.

As part of CBS 46’s ongoing coverage of gun policies and issues in the Atlanta area they recently reported that Mayor Kasim Reed (D) and Police Chief George Turner are sitting on more than “10,000” confiscated guns in defiance of a Georgia law which requires them to return the guns to their owners or sell them to the public in an auction.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is out with its most recent figures on drug, car, and gun deaths, and the numbers show that drug-related deaths far exceed car deaths, while car deaths exceed gun-related fatalities.

In a letter dated October 23, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked Secretary of the Army John McHugh to refuse to purchase firearms for soldiers from gun manufacturers who are not actively working on “smart guns” or complying with gun controls that Congress hasn’t even passed.