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TSA agents found a record 21 guns in passengers’ luggage as they checked baggage on February 23. The previous one-day record was 18.

The Advocate ran a column on March 3 that claimed, legal or illegal, all “guns are the problem” and called for the LGBTQ community to rally for more gun control.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed a Secretarial Order repealing the lead ammunition ban issued the day before Barack Obama left office.

A homeowner in Empire, California, shot and killed one home invasion suspect and detained a second around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday night.

With National Reciprocity gaining momentum in the U.S. House and Senate, Bloomberg warns that expanding recognition of concealed carry licenses is really about militarizing America.

On Tuesday, President Trump signed the repeal of Barack Obama’s gun ban for Social Security recipients. On Thursday, NBC News reported that Trump had signed a repeal of “gun checks for people with mental illness.”

Minnesota state Senator Jeff Hayden (DFL-62) is pushing legislation to designate $200,000 in taxpayer funds as annual gifts to gun control groups.

On Friday, a robbery suspect entered a South Omaha barbershop, allegedly pointed a shotgun at one of the barbers, and got shot multiple times.

On a day when legislation benefiting women and black colleges and universities was signed with much pomp and circumstance, President Trump quietly followed through on his pledge to defend the Second Amendment by signing the repeal of Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday to “increase prosecutions of gun-law violations” so that suspects know they will pay a price for using guns in crime.

February is coming to a close and there has already been over 500 shooting victims in Chicago for 2017.

On February 26, 2017–the fifth anniversary of the day on which George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense–Moms Demand Action asked supporters to honor the memory of Martin by demanding gun control.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) signed a bill which immediately abolished the requirement that state residents obtain a permit before carrying a concealed handgun for self-defense.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Calling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “one of the leading constitutionalists” in America, conservative giant Mark Levin engaged the prominent Texan senator at CPAC on Thursday in a wide-ranging conversation covering the Constitution, immigration, and the Second Amendment. Many CPAC-goers are wondering if Cruz might be President Trump’s next pick for the Supreme Court.

Pro-refugee marchers of the ACLU, the local United Nations Association, and other open border groups were countered by armed, Second Amendment advocate Trump supporters at a demonstration in Dallas during the weekend.

The governors of Texas and eight other states have taken aim at California’s restriction on concealed carry permit holders and urge that their citizens “should not be forced to check their gun rights at the [California] border.”

On February 15, the Montana Senate passed permitless carry legislation which will now head to Governor Steve Bullock’s (D) desk.

The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and The Huffington Post are responding to the Senate vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban by accusing GOP lawmakers of helping the mentally ill get guns.

A homeowner wrestled a gun away from an armed home invasion suspect, killing the 15-year-old intruder in the process.

Some University of Texas graduate students are holding their meetings with undergrads at bars so as to meet somewhere they are not allowed to be armed for self-defense.

A Washington Post opinion piece written by Paul Waldman claims the Senate vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban equals Republicans arming the mentally ill.

The Senate voted to repeal Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban on Feburary 15. This followed the House of Representatives vote to repeal the same gun ban on February 2.

An armed citizen intervened and stopped a stabbing that was underway in a Walmart parking lot in Topeka, Kansas.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing five gun accessory suppliers, claiming they are selling “high capacity” magazines by describing them as “repair kits.”

On February 13–one day before the GOP-led Senate is expected to vote for a repeal of Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban–the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence freaked out and called the ban a “lifesaving policy.”

A February 11 New York Times opinion piece claims President Trump missed the mark with his executive order on immigration, suggesting he would have kept Americans safer by targeting guns instead of Muslim terrorists.

CNN is reporting that bullet fragments lodged in the human body can cause lead poisoning which, in turn, can cause high blood pressure.

Duke University psychiatry and behavioral science professor Jeffrey Swanson says Congress is right to repeal Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban because it targets the “vulnerable” rather than the dangerous.

A citizen “legally carrying” a handgun demanded a suspect stop attacking a woman in a convenience store then shot the suspect twice when he refused the demands.

Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief Jeffrey Hadley will appear with gun control proponent Gabby Giffords Monday to argue against suppressor ownership by “everyday Americans” and to oppose national reciprocity for concealed carry.

Researchers in UC Davis’s Violence Prevention Research Program are worried President Trump will simply erase their data the way his administration erased climate change data from the White House web site.

Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s (D) proposed budget contains an increase in the cost of pistol permits that could realistically price the poor out of gun ownership.

In a February 9 email obtained by Breitbart News, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence warns supporters that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the NRA form a deadly combination against gun control. Moreover, the email also warns that ATF

University of Florida associate professor Michelle Campos generally believes more guns equal more crime and specifically believes allowing law-abiding students to be armed for self-defense will “endanger” faculty and staff.

Georgia state Representative Mandi Ballinger (R-Canton) reintroduced campus carry Tuesday despite the fact that Governor Nathan Deal (R) sided with Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Guns Safety and vetoed similar legislation last year.

Permitless carry is on the march with legislatures in six states weighing the option of abolishing their requirement for a permit for concealed carry.