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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand authorities said Saturday their country will be a safer place after owners handed in more than 50,000 guns during a buyback program following a ban on assault weapons. But critics say the process was flawed and many owners have illegally stashed their firearms.

Gun buyers are currently on the cusp of setting a record for the highest number of background checks conducted in one year’s time. 

Chicago Police indicate a 14-year-old pulled a pellet gun during a dog sale and was subsequently shot in the chest by a woman with a real gun.

Coldplay included on their latest album “Everyday Life” an anti-gun anthem which laments the fact that children “make pistols with their fingers and their thumbs.”

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department has released dashcam footage of the heart-pounding moment when a suspect allegedly fired his gun at deputies on October 10.

A suspect in Chicago allegedly shot and killed four of his neighbors as they ate dinner on Saturday evening on the city’s Northwest Side.

America, Guns, and Freedom is a book by a doctor that examines the dangers posed by gun control doctors and  researchers who seek to push gun control under the guise of “public health.”

“Over time, I realized having a gun made me feel smaller, not bigger,” he said during a conversation about guns with a BuzzFeed reporter as part of his bus tour in Iowa. 

During an interview with Fox News Channel’s Ed Henry that aired Thursday on “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump addressed congressional efforts to pass gun legislation.

House Republicans will hold a press conference on Wednesday with mass shooting survivors and family members of mass shooting victims.

Left-wing education policies restricting disciplinary measures in schools increase the likelihood of school shootings, said Andrew Pollack.

President Donald Trump criticized former Rep. Beto O’Rourke on Wednesday for his new-found push to ban AR-15s and AK-47s.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized some gun owners on Friday, suggesting it was sad that their “sense of manhood” depended on owning a gun.

PolitiFact rated Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) claim that his former political challenger Beto O’Rourke (D) wanted to “take our guns” away “false” on its Truth-O-Meter last year.

The Supreme Court’s decision regarding asylum claimants is evidence of Donald Trump’s successes in reforming immigration, said Hogan Gidley.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called for a “voluntary buyback program” on guns during the 2019 Democrat debate in Houston, Texas, Thursday.

No mention of radical Islam was made by any senators during Monday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing — uniquely held at the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, NY — days before the 18th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Joe Biden appeared to forget that his former running mate, Barack Obama, was America’s “last president” during a speech in New Hampshire on Friday.

Former Texas Rep. Robert Francis O’Rourke (D-TX) is struggling to gain full support from Democrats in his state, with the majority of likely Democrat voters choosing Joe Biden (D) over the Texas native, according to a Texas Lyceum poll released Thursday.

The Heritage Manufacturing Rough Rider is an Old West six-shooter in .22 long rifle, which is perfect for plinking and putting on a hurting on some empty soft drink cans.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared to use Twitter Wednesday to accuse Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) of lending guns to spousal abusers who have violent criminal records. Her tweet followed the Texas lawmaker’s celebration of a woman who used a handgun to defend herself from suspected robbers.

Houston Police are searching for a man who allegedly pulled a gun on Popeyes employees on Monday because the restaurant chain was sold out of its chicken sandwiches.

“Having assault weapons on the street and magazines carrying multiple bullets is irrational. There is no need for it, and your Second Amendment rights are in no way violated,” Biden told reporters in Iowa Monday.

A poll surveying a President Trump matchup with the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates shows the president would be defeated by five contenders.

If enacted, “red flag laws” will become a “slippery slope” used by politicians to “try to disarm the American people,” said Graham Allen, host of BlazeTV’s Rant Nation, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called on retailers like Walmart to “stop selling guns,” arguing that they have a responsibility to their communities and are shirking their duties by putting profits over “safety.”

Mayor Pete Buttigieg released a detailed plan Tuesday for more gun control in the wake of the weekend mass shootings in Ohio and Texas.

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton reacted to President Trump’s Monday morning remarks on the deadly shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, dismissing his push for mental health-based reform and calling for the ban of “assault weapons.”

The White House issued a proclamation Sunday ordering flags be flown at half-staff in memory of the victims of the mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

President Donald Trump proposed Monday that Congress pass a bill that united more background checks for guns and immigration reform in the wake of the mass shootings in Ohio and Texas over the weekend.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand’s government is planning further restrictions to gun ownership in a law proposed Monday that emphasizes owning guns is a privilege and not a right.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Dozens of Christchurch gun owners on Saturday handed over their weapons in exchange for money, in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) issued glowing praise to her former Democrat challenger Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) over his gun-grabbing efforts, following his exit from the crowded primary field Monday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) are not the “enemy” of gun control, but rather gun manufacturers are.

After the recent shooting in Virginia Beach, when the shooter was found to have a suppressor on one of his two guns, Breitbart News’ AWR Hawkins is back to debunk the myth that gun suppressors are “silencers.” Visit Breitbart.com/downrange and

Friday on HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher warned Democrats about making gun control a 2020 presidential campaign issue.