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Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) notes the House Democrats’ push for universal background checks is really an effort to create a gun registry.

Connecticut State Rep. Jillian Gilchrest (D-13th) doubled down on her ammunition tax proposal by claiming the 50 percent tax is worth it if it can “prevent just one death.”

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is pledging a gun control vote next week by exclaiming that the “right to be safe” trumps the right to bear arms.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed Senate Bill 47 on Thursday to eliminate South Dakota’s requirement that residents possess a concealed carry permit in order to carry a handgun concealed.

Singer Barbara Streisand reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a firearm case by asking “how many innocent people…have to die before” we get gun control?

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted review in the first Second Amendment case in almost a decade, a case supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), and perhaps signaling what to expect from the new membership of the Supreme Court.

The “Disarm America Movement” is gunning for your Second Amendment rights via increased gun control funding, anti-gun office holders, and aspiring political candidates bent on banning whole categories of firearms.

With Washington state’s semiautomatic rifle purchase ban now in place at least six states restrict the Second Amendment rights of 18-20-year-olds.

Bloomberg.com is warning that a Democrat-led gun control push in the coming Congress could strengthen the NRA.

Rolling Stone commented on the NRA’s relative silence regarding the ban of bump stocks by suggesting the gun rights organization surrendered on the issue in order to shield semiautomatic rifles.

the NRA issued a statement expressing disappointment that citizens who legally purchased the accessories are not allowed to keep them.

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. claims the guilty plea of suspected Russian spy Maria Butina and the outcome of the 2018 congressional elections mark the “beginning of the end” for the “gun lobby” in the U.S.

Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty on Thursday to “conspiring to act as a foreign agent.”

On Monday, comedian Tom Arnold proclaimed his belief that there are only five black members of the NRA, not millions as some claim.

Axios ran a story on November 27 presenting the NRA as in decline and suffering financially because of it. 

The New York Times reports that Gabby Giffords’ gun control group and Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety spent nearly $40 million “at the state and federal level in the midterms.” The NRA spent $20 million.

Shannon Watts claims the NRA exploited the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack to enrich itself and sell guns.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) says he was being “sarcastic” when he talked of nuking gun owners who refuse to comply with his confiscatory plans banning “assault weapons.”

The NRA and Second Amendment Foundation filed suit against the gun controls in Washington state’s Initiative 1639.

QuikTrip convenience stores added good guys with guns in Wichita, Kansas, and the results were so good that they are expanding the program to stores in other areas.

San Francisco forensic pathologist Judy Melinek wants to help Nancy Pelosi defeat the NRA and secure more gun control throughout the country. 

The NRA is stressing the import of self-defense preparedness by noting “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

As former Attorney General Jeff Sessions departed the Department of Justice (DOJ), a short list of potential replacements has surfaced in Washington, D.C. 

Incoming House Democrats are promising to push the same gun control that failed to stop the Thousand Oaks, California, massacre.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof blamed the NRA for the Thousand Oaks, California, shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill but ignored the litany of California gun control laws that failed to prevent the attack.

U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy ruled Tuesday that the NRA’s suit against New York can continue on First Amendment grounds.

The NRA is urging its six million members and other freedom-loving Americans to vote like their gun rights depend on it–because they do.

The left wing activist group, Dream Defenders, has become the “center of Florida governor’s race,” according to the Associated Press.

Folk rocker Neil Young used the Crosby, Stills, Young, and Nash hit song “Ohio” to rip the NRA and voice support for high school gun control activists.

On Tuesday FedEx announced it is cutting ties with the NRA effective November 4.

Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts criticized the NRA and tweeted for more gun laws before the number of casualties, injuries, and other facts in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting were even known.

Gun control groups are rallying in Nevada as Barack Obama-endorsed Jacky Rosen (D) continues campaigning to restrict gun rights.

During President Donald Trump’s Monday night rally in Houston, he mentioned Beto O’Rourke’s F-rating from the NRA and said the rating means “he wants to take away your guns.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) staff already admitted she is open to a semiautomatic rifle ban, and on Thursday night, McCaskill made clear that she, too, is coming after gun shows.

During a Thursday night CNN Town Hall, Beto O’Rourke lauded Texas’s gun heritage before quickly adding that Texas should step up and lead the nation in a gun control conversation.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) claims to be pro-Second Amendment but even a cursory glance at his record shows opposition to pro-gun Supreme Court nominees, support for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s gun control schemes, and a D-rating from the NRA.