Second Amendment

Ohio’s Junior Lions Cheer Team is drawing fire from a mother who says it should not sell raffle tickets for America’s most popular rifle, the AR-15.

Parkland father Andrew Pollack says Americans need to be armed for self-defense because when seconds count “first responders are minutes away.”

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says President Trump can “Make America Safe Again” through the passage of gun control.

A 7-Eleven clerk in the Dallas area roped an alleged armed robbery suspect and tied him up to keep him under control until police arrived.

While talking to reporters Wednesday, President Trump doubled down on his intent to avoid a “slippery slope” for gun rights.

Needles, California, Mayor Jeff Williams says the gun laws of his state require him to drive 280 miles round-trip in order to get ammunition to hunt quail or target shoot.

The March for Our Lives gun control movement is calling for the registration of all guns and implementation of “mandatory” buybacks of certain guns.

President Trump suggested Democrats have given up any defense of the Second Amendment and pledged that he will not allow Americans’ gun rights to be swept away on the “slippery slope” of gun control.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) claims the 1994 “assault weapons” ban lowered crime even though a Department of Justice report shows it had no impact on recorded figures.

President Trump appears to be shifting away from the background check push he undertook in the immediate aftermath of the attacks in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

Rep. Pete King (R-NY) is supporting the Democrats’ “assault weapons” ban in order to get rid of what he refers to as weapons “of mass slaughter.”

Twenty-eight individuals were shot, five fatally, over the weekend in Democrat-controlled Chicago. NBC Chicago reports the first of the weekend’s fatalities was a double murder that occurred in a shooting around 4 pm Friday.

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke went to an Arkansas gun show over the weekend, took photos standing by AR-15 sale placards, and then denounced the availability of the firearms.

University of Texas receiver Joshua Moore was arrested and charged with allegedly carrying a loaded gun in Austin last month.

A 75-year-old Lake County, Illinois, homeowner used a “small caliber revolver” to foil an alleged robbery by six suspects. 

Democrat presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren says it is “an honor to fight alongside Gabby Giffords” in the push for more gun control.

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) is baffled that cities can ban plastic straws, but Congress cannot unite to ban “assault weapons.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is reconvening his committee a week before the rest of Congress in order to work on gun control.

A homeowner in South Fulton, Georgia, awoke to the sound of breaking glass and fatally shot an alleged intruder.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) responded to a felon’s attack on police officers Wednesday by calling for more gun control. 

The SNHU Arena holds nearly 12,000, and was nearly filled to capacity when the U.S. Secret Service closed the doors. Thousands more people watched the president’s speech on giant television screens outside the arena.

During his Thursday night “Keep America Great” rally in New Hampshire, President Donald Trump commented on violent crime, saying, “It’s not the gun that pulls the trigger.”

Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger indicated the Dayton, Ohio, gunman had cocaine, anti-depressants, and alcohol in his system when he carried out his August 4, 2019, attack.

The New York Times suggests “stronger background checks” probably would not have prevented the August 3 and August 4, 2019, shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

While Republican leaders such as Sen. Majority Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are giving ground on more gun laws, Republican voters support gun rights over gun control by a margin of nearly 3 to 1.

A robbery suspect allegedly pulled a gun on a Saginaw, Texas, homeowner Sunday night and died after the homeowner drew his own gun and fired.

A homeowner in Zachary, Louisiana, shot and critically wounded an alleged naked intrusion suspect on Sunday.

While universal background checks are pushed as a response to the El Paso and Dayton shooting attacks, it should be remembered that such checks are unenforceable without a gun registry.

Democrat presidential candidates and senators this week renewed their threats that unless the U.S. Supreme Court issues liberal rulings on the Second Amendment and other issues, that Democrats will fundamentally restructure the nation’s highest court, a shocking threat to judicial independence not seen since the 1930s.

Reps. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and Jason Crow (D-CO) are pushing their House colleagues to pass a ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.