Just over two weeks after the June 12, 2016, Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) supported Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) push for an expansion of gun control that would violate due process.
Shepard Smith and Sen. Bill Nelson scolded Congress for lack of gun control before number of fatalities in school shooting was even known.
A man who was on a terror watch list managed to slip through the cracks of France’s surveillance system to become a police officer, according to media sources.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said that following several arrests, members of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s terror network could “potentially” still be at large.
Amy Schumer uses her upcoming Netflix premiere The Leather Special to mock “gun nuts” for opposing her gun control efforts.
On Monday morning, the day after armed attackers struck a mosque in stringently gun-controlled Quebec, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that President Trump should forget the immigration suspension and pass gun control if he really wants to keep Americans safe.
Captured New York City and New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami was “not on a U.S. terror watch list” nor a list maintained by the NYPD.
While House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and other GOP lawmakers vacillate on gun control, combined with the language of terrorism, Gun Owners of America (GOA) warns that guns should not be part of the post-Orlando conversation. Rather, the focus should be on abolishing gun-free zones–like Pulse Orlando–and arresting the individuals who are named in terror watch lists, if those lists are actually reliable.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press was told by an FBI agent that Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who attacked two military locations and killed five U.S. service members last July, became “radicalized” at least a year before the attack… and people who knew about it said nothing to the authorities.
When House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) allows a gun control vote next week it will be focused on reviving Senator John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) already rejected, post-Orlando gun legislation.
The Democratic Senate Whip Sen. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.) told reporters that the most important thing about the No-Fly-No-Buy amendment proposed by Sen. Susan Collins (R.-Maine) is the opportunity to drive a wedge between the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association.
During the June 19 airing of Face the Nation, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre complimented Donald Trump’s post-Orlando push against terrorists rather than guns.
The Senate is expected to vote on a number of gun control measures Monday, all of which are in response to the June 12 Orlando terror attack.
Islamic State’s most notorious executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, was able to slip by European intelligence forces and travel almost completely unhindered to Syria by posing as a migrant, an Islamic State jihadist has revealed. Emwazi, nicknamed Jihadi John by his prisoners,
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has declared his public opposition to a new bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to prevent people on a government terror watch list from buying guns.
During the January 3 airing of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pointed out that Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie signed 10 gun control bills in 2013.
On December 10, the House GOP shut down Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA-12) efforts to force a vote to add the no-fly list to background checks.
Stephen Koff, Washington Bureau Chief for the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been trying to interview Democrat Senate candidate Ted Strickland about his views on gun control in light of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
On April 18, 2014, the New York Times published a scathing editorial on the no-fly list, describing it as “a violation of basic rights” and a list unsuitable for a “democratic society premised on due process.”
On December 7, the Los Angeles Times countered Obama’s claim that the no-fly list should be used in background checks by pointing to the imprecision of the list and the fact that those on it “have not been convicted of doing anything wrong.”
President Obama may soon remove Cuba from the terrorism watch list.
