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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is still seeking “compromise language” for Democrat gun control, the Washington Post reported.

During his April 28, 2021, speech to Congress, President Biden called for a ban on “high-capacity magazines that hold 100 rounds.”

Democrats in the Ohio House are pushing a red flag law and universal background checks, among other gun controls.

One innocent was killed when 45-year-old Za Uk Lian allegedly opened fire in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday morning.

During the March 28, 2021, airing of NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Chris Murphy (D) outlined additional gun control that could be considered once universal background checks are place.

Colorado is one of the few states in the Union that has the Democrats’ highly desired universal background check gun controls.

New York Magazine reacted to the Tuesday shootings in Atlanta by wondering aloud if the heinous acts would put gun control over the top.

The NRA is warning that “Senate Insiders” believe the Democrat gun control that passed the House March 12, 2021, “will likely get” a hearing in the Senate next week.

A significant gun control measure mandating universal background checks passed the Democrat-controlled House Thursday with the help of eight Republicans.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed universal background check gun control Thursday, criminalizing private gun sales conducted apart from an FBI background check. 

While speaking about House Democrats’ gun control push on Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) made clear “the government is never going to know what weapons I own.”

Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) claimed on Wednesday that 90 percent of Americans support the universal background check gun control he introduced last week.

The background check gun controls which were introduced in the House last week bring back Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) 2013 gun control push and make his support for the current legislation crucial to Democrat success.

House Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) introduced gun control legislation this week and made clear that the current push is just the “first step.”

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced universal background check legislation to expand retail point-of-sale background checks to private sales as well.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch used a February 20, 2021, editorial to suggest President Joe Biden could make the left’s gun control dreams come true.

In coming weeks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reportedly plans to put forward the universal background check legislation President Biden wants to sign.

California has many of the most prominent aspects of President Joe Biden’s (D) gun control plan but is, nonetheless, plagued by a steady flow of mass shootings.

President Joe Biden campaigned on universal background checks for gun purchases and such checks require a firearm registry in order to be enforceable. 

During his Monday rally in Prescott, Arizona, President Trump warned that Democrat Senate candidate Mark Kelly “will vote to take away your guns if elected.”

Democrat candidate Mark Kelly used part of his time during Tuesday’s Arizona senate debate to suggest Arizonans want more gun control.

James O’Keefe released Part 1 of his undercover videos on senate candidate Mark Kelly (D) and claimed Kelly “deceives AZ voters” as to the true nature of his gun control intentions.

On Wednesday Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg pressed President Trump for more gun control before the facts in the Molson Coors attack were even known.

A study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found expanding background checks does nothing to lower the mass shooting rate.

Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is pushing Uncle Dick-approved gun control in New Hampshire.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D) proposed a three-quarters cut in funding for school security grants, while outlining numerous new gun controls in his annual budget speech.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) praised the passage of seven gun control bills in Virginia’s House of Delegates on Thursday.

FBI figures show that 2019 shattered the one-year record for the number of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks performed.

An Associated Press (AP) column looking back on violence in 2019 notes that California has more gun control than any state yet witnessed the most “mass slayings” for any state.  

Democrat presidential Joe Biden pushed universal background checks days after such checks failed to prevent a school shooting and a football watch party shooting in California.

Celebrities took to Twitter Thursday to push gun control, criticize the NRA, and malign President Trump, after a 16-year-old shot five fellow students in Santa Clarita, California.

During a campaign stop in Charles City, Iowa, Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders denounced mandatory gun buybacks as “unconstitutional.”

Presidential hopeful Joe Biden is demanding Majority Leader Mitch McConnell allow a Senate vote on Democrat gun control.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) is calling a special session of the state’s legislature in hopes of securing universal background checks and other gun controls.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) falsely claimed during CNN’s Democrat debate in Westerville, Ohio, Tuesday night that the majority of Trump voters want gun control.

“If you can develop the plan further, we can have a debate about it,” he said. “We can’t wait.”