Second Amendment

Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana reported that an intrusion suspect died in a gun battle with a homeowner.

The Kentucky Senate passed a bill late last week to eliminate the state’s concealed carry permit requirement.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) signed universal background checks into law on Friday.

The February 15, 2019, shooting at Henry Pratt Company (HPC) occurred even though HPC is a gun-free zone. 

A red flag law and universal background checks failed to stop the Aurora, Illinois, shooting that killed five people Friday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned Republicans on Thursday that they should worry about the “threshold that they are crossing” by supporting President Donald Trump’s expected declaration of a national emergency at the border because it could open the door to future Democrats in the White House declaring a national emergency on issues like gun control.

On the February 14, 2019, President Trump honored the victims of that heinous attack and recommitted to the safety of children.

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

Police in Kingsport, Tennessee, say a man entered a dental office Wednesday morning to kill his wife and was shot multiple times by an armed patient.

On Tuesday the Los Angeles City Council voted to require companies to disclose NRA ties in order to be eligible for city contracts.

House Democrats want a vote on gun control that would not have stopped the Parkland high school shooting, the 2017 Las Vegas attack, or the 2016 Orlando Pulse shooting.

Real estate agents are increasingly carrying handguns with them on the job for self-defense.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit announced it will rehear a case which a three-judge panel decided in favor of open carry in July. 

A report from Reuters reveals that a “top priority” for Moms Demand Action is being sure teachers remained unarmed in Florida classrooms.

Gabby Giffords’ pro-gun control husband, Mark Kelly, announced he will seek to run against Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) in 2020.

During his Monday night rally in El Paso, Texas, President Donald Trump defended the Second Amendment by recounting the Battle of Gonzales and saying, “Come and Take It.”

Palmetto, Florida’s Manatee School for the Arts has hired two armed combat veterans to protect students and teachers while at the school.

West Virginia Republican lawmakers are pushing campus carry legislation to allow concealed carry permit holders to be armed for self-defense while on public campuses.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) Trustees voted to preserve a gun-free environment by keeping police officers unarmed on campus.

The NRA-ILA reports there will be a secret gun control push this Tuesday in Nevada in a special joint judiciary hearing.

Twenty-nine of New Mexico’s 33 Sheriffs signed a letter against a red flag law, universal background checks, and other gun controls being pushed by the state’s Democrat lawmakers. 

House Democrats plan to move legislation criminalizing private gun sales out of committee and get it to the floor for a vote this week.

Figures from the California Justice Department show that gun confiscations are surging under the state’s red flag law. 

Suspects who allegedly entered a Brevard County, Florida, home and pointed a gun at woman’s head were shot dead by the woman’s son.

Oklahoma’s House Public Safety Committee passed legislation this week designed to end the concealed carry permit requirement in the state.

Gun crime has hit a ten-year high in the English counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, and West Yorkshire, despite strict gun control laws.

Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor Joe Deters says a female store owner was “clearly justified” in shooting a robber dead on January 23.

A bill being pushed by State Rep. Daniel Didech (D-Buffalo Grove) would require gun license applicants to submit to a background check of their social media posts.

During Judiciary Committee hearings for the universal background checks Gabby Giffords’ associate Robyn Thomas made clear the expanded checks are only the “first step.”

Parkland parent Andrew Pollack reacted to President Trump’s State of the Union address by praising the President’s actions to make schools safer.