Senator Joe Manchin Gun Control

FBI figures show that February 2016 was the tenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.

The Republican-led West Virginia House voted Feb. 8 to eliminate the existing requirement for people to get concealed carry permits if they want to carry a concealed gun.

Speaking at the Tina Brown Live Media’s American Justice Summit on January 29, Eric Holder reflected on his time as attorney general and described the “inability” to secure more gun control as his “biggest failure.”

The federal government must monitor newspaper online advertising if it wants to oversee gun sales in the way President Barack Obama urged January 5.

“We will be looking for those individuals who seek to avoid registering,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch told reporters following a Jan. 4 meeting with President Obama regarding executive gun control.

On December 3 the Senate rejected Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) push to expand background checks nationally in the wake of the attack in San Bernardino, California.

On October 8–one week after Chris Harper Mercer opened fire in the gun free facilities of Umpqua Community College (UCC)–nearly 24 Senate Democrats stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to say they want to put forth gun control legislation, and they are going to do so as soon as the American people rise up in support of the idea.

On October 7, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton interrupted her numerous pledges for gun control just long enough to try to discredit the NRA and discourage its membership.

On October 6 Jeffrey Zalles, the president of the Marin County chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said part of the solution to shootings in gun-free zones could be a license requirement for all bullet purchasers.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest admitted Aug. 28 that the president’s plan to aggressively regulate people’s ability to defend themselves would not have stopped the live-TV shooting of WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward.

On August 5, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced legislation that encourages states to more readily submit information on people with mental health problems to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

During a July 26 appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) acknowledged that alleged Lafayette gunman Joe Russell Houser did not do “anything wrong” in the way he acquired his firearm.

On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the United States is the “only advanced country” where public “mass violence” occurs, and more gun control is needed now to keep Charleston-like attacks from happening again.

On June 20, The Fresno Bee editorial board ran an editorial showing that gun control is not working, yet calling for more gun control to prevent an attack like the heinous one in Charleston, South Carolina, from ever happening again.

A New York Mets starting pitcher says he appeared in a team photograph wearing orange unaware that anti-Second Amendment groups planned to use the photo to bolster the gun-control cause.

On May 19, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY-12th District) introduced legislation to expand background checks to gun shows.

Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th Dist) won “Top Gun” at the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation annual shooting competition this past week then commented on his hopes for the passage of more gun control.

On May 14 Everytown for Gun Safety president John Feinblatt pushed a list of 13 cop killers as justification for more gun control via the expansion of background checks. What Feinblatt did not say is that one of the 13 passed a background check to get his gun and another was a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL)–the very person who facilitates background checks on others.

When the Oregon Senate passed expanded background checks on April 14, it marked a change from 2013 and 2014–when the same type of legislation was taken up but defeated without even making it to the floor for a vote.

Gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly will speak on Class Day at Harvard Law School on May 27, despite their string of epic defeats.

On Wednesday, CNN reported that the guns Garland attackers Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi used were “bought legally,” which means they were acquired through background checks.

On May 5 CNN reported that the two gunmen who attacked Garland’s Curtis Culwell Center acquired their guns “legally.”

During a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) defended his post-Sandy Hook gun control push as something that “made sense” in 2013 and something that “makes sense now.”

On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) appeared on CBS’s Face The Nation to announce the he has decided not to run for governor of West Virginia in 2016.

On April 11 Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America held a rally attended by approximately 150 people in Nashville to protest the approximately 70,000 NRA convention attendees who have flooded into the city.

On April 10, Bloomberg.com ran a column full of quotes suggesting NRA members at the Nashville convention are nervous and even fearful over a possible Hillary Clinton presidential run and then juxtaposed this so-called fear with a presentation of Clinton’s views that omitted her belief that gun owners “terrorize a majority of people.”

On April 6, Fox News ran a column which contained comments from Moms Demand Actions’ Shannon Watts praising Washington state’s institution for the very kind of background check Jared Loughner passed to get the firearm he used to attack Gabby Giffords, then saying it’s only “gunsense” that all other gun purchasers should have to go through the same background check.

Obama and his fellow Democrats have been in a full sprint for gun control since December 14, 2012, leading to more Americans buying more guns and pushing the firearms industry to historic heights in the process.

On Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) faced questions about his recent gun control push in West Virginia and the growing divide him and the NRA. He responded to these things by claiming the NRA used to pro “gun culture” but now it is pro “big business.”

While Oregon Democrats stood with Gabby Giffords and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to push expanded background checks on April 1, Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer stood for the law-abiding citizens whom the checks will target by describing

In their ceaseless search for new reasons to push gun control, Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–is now pushing gun control as a way to fight terrorism.

On April 3, Fox News’ host Greg Gutfeld explained that the media’s gun control arguments increasingly fall on deaf ears because Americans refuse to feel guilty over using guns for self-defense.

With the Senate focused on the 2016 budget, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has proposed an amendment that would ban federally mandated gun control.

On March 25 the Kansas House and Senate passed a concealed carry reform bill–SB 45–that ends the requirement for a permit to carry a concealed handgun in that state. According to The Topeka Capital-Journal, SB 45 was sponsored by state

On March 20 West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D) vetoed SB 347–the bill to repeal the concealed carry permit requirement in that state.