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The city of Baltimore has reached 300 homicides in a year for the fifth year in a row.
Two people were killed and several others were injured Thursday during a shooting at a Southern California high school and the student gunman was in custody, authorities said.
The last Virginia Republican state delegate from Fairfax County lost his seat, and the GOP ceded control to the Democrats of the boards of supervisors in neighboring Loudoun and Prince William counties, both of which were GOP strongholds just a decade ago.
The head the Democratic National Committee said the party’s success at the ballot box this week in Virginia shows President Trump has shot himself in the foot when it comes to addressing gun violence.
Gun control activists believe this summer’s spate of high-profile mass shootings shifted the ground on the issue — and they’ll get their first chance to prove it Tuesday in Virginia, where voters are being told it’s the top issue in the battle for control of the state’s General Assembly.
A home invasion in Lithia, Florida, last week was thwarted by a very pregnant woman firing an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon and killing one of the attackers, according to local news reports.
Joy Behar has some advice for Democrats who are running for president: Even if you want to confiscate guns from civilians, don’t tell voters that in advance.
Airbnb’s CEO said the company was taking actions against unauthorized parties in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb rental home in California.
Gun rights advocates are celebrating the start of a new law that allows most adults in Oklahoma to carry a firearm in public without a background check or training.
A private association is putting out a call for volunteers, armed or unarmed, to provide outdoor security for Trump supporters traveling to the president’s campaign rally Friday night in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Four people were killed and at least four injured at a Halloween party shooting at a Northern California home rented by a woman who falsely claimed she wanted the Airbnb so her asthmatic family members could escape wildfire smoke, officials and a person with knowledge of the transaction said Friday.
A 7-year-old girl is reported in critical condition after being shot while trick-or-treating on Chicago’s West Side.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was angrily confronted by a woman in Newtown, Connecticut, who accused the former congressman of using the city as a political prop for his gun confiscation plan.
An Oklahoma judge has rejected an attempt by a Democratic state lawmaker and gun safety advocates to stop a new law from taking effect on Friday that would allow most people in the state to carry a firearm in public without a background check or training.
Jersey Mike’s apologized to Parkland shooting father and gun control activist Fred Guttenberg this week after he complained about a man openly carrying firearms in one of their restaurants.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham signaled Wednesday President Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives might be in trouble.
A judge on Tuesday struck down gun restrictions that the Pittsburgh City Council imposed after last year’s synagogue massacre, noting that Pennsylvania state law forbids municipalities from regulating firearms.
A man suspected of opening fire at an off-campus college party in Texas, killing two people and injuring 12 others, has been arrested.
An attorney for the man accused of killing five Maryland newspaper employees last year told a court Monday that he will plead guilty but not criminally responsible by reason of insanity to the murders.
Comedian Dave Chappelle gave a compelling defense of the Second Amendment while accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in front of a star-studded Washington crowd on Sunday.
Michael Moore applauded Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke in an interview out Saturday for saying during a debate he would confiscate assault-style weapons if elected.
Rob Drake, the Major League Baseball umpire who sparked an uproar over a tweet threatening civil war over the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, has apologized “to everyone that my words made feel less safe.”
Authorities in the nation’s capital say a 12-year-old flashed a knife and 9mm handgun during an argument with another student over a pencil.
A judge has ordered a third psychiatric examination of a teenager charged in a mass shooting at a Texas high school last year to help determine whether the former student is mentally competent to stand trial.
An armed barricade situation in Burke, Virginia, ended early Tuesday morning when police found two men and a woman dead inside a home. The gunman was among the dead, WTOP reported.
Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke’s gun control plans are being blasted as “ridiculous” and “asinine” by police groups representing hundreds of thousands of officers.
New York City police say a 20-year-old gang member has confessed to his involvement in a gun battle between rival groups that left one person dead and 11 wounded at a Brooklyn community festival in July. Kyle Williams was arrested Wednesday on charges including murder and attempted murder.
Police in central Indiana say a toddler found his mother’s unsecured gun while she was out of the room and accidentally shot himself to death.
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke on Wednesday said people who refuse to give up their semiautomatic rifles under his mandatory buyback proposal can expect a visit from law enforcement.
A jury in Wisconsin has awarded $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist writers who claimed the massacre never happened.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said that former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s calls for mandatory gun buybacks could hurt the ability of elected leaders to come together to pass less divisive plans to combat gun violence.
A white former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder after shooting a black woman through a window of her home has been released on bond, and the department told a grieving community that investigators would ensure “no stone is left unturned” in the search for answers.
Montgomery County Police are searching for the person who fatally shot an officer Monday morning in a Silver Spring parking garage — the county’s first fatal shooting of an on-duty police officer since 2003.
An epidemic of mass shootings has put a spotlight on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, revealing an agency that is understaffed, underfunded and treated as a political punching bag on both the right and the left.
Federal prosecutors said Friday that the suspect arrested in connection with a waging a deadly shooting rampage near a German synagogue on Yom Kippur this week has admitted his involvement.
Suspect Patrick Crusius pleads not guilty in fatal shooting of 22 people at Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
A Colorado teen who helped stop a school shooting became a Marine last month.
Ed Stack, the chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, said in a new interview that his company destroyed $5 million worth of semi-automatic rifles after removing them from store shelves last year.
The Supreme Court Monday declined to dismiss a Second Amendment challenge to a firearm regulation in New York City after Democrats threatened the justices with court packing, fearing a divided ruling.
A mother in Washington state said Sunday that she turned her 17-year-old son to police after finding his plans to cause a deadly school shooting.
The federal government collected fewer than 1,000 bump stocks during the run-up to a new ban in March, despite estimates that hundreds of thousands of the devices that mimic machine gun fire are in circulation, according to federal data provided to The Washington Times by the Justice Department.
Authorities say two men fatally shot four people inside a Kansas City, Kansas, bar and wounded five others.
Joshua Brown, a “key witness” in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor, has been killed in a shooting.
A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and targeting Supreme Court justices, prominent Democrats and TV journalists pleaded guilty on Thursday to gun and drug charges.
Two years after a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas hotel, MGM Resorts International reached a settlement that could pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others who were injured, attorneys announced Thursday.
A Florida lawmaker filed a bill Tuesday allowing lawful gun owners to conceal carry guns without a license.
Surveillance video inside a Maryland newspaper office that shows a wounded employee crawling away and others hiding or running for their lives during a gunman’s rampage can be used at the suspect’s trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and targeting Supreme Court justices, prominent Democrats and TV journalists is expected to plead guilty in a case charging him with gun and drug offenses.
The National Rifle Association of America says its lawsuit against San Francisco has prompted a win for free speech and gun rights.
A judge is scheduled to hear arguments from attorneys again on whether graphic video of a shooting at a Maryland newspaper can be used at the alleged gunman’s trial.
San Francisco’s mayor has told department heads they cannot investigate the possible ties of city contractors to the National Rifle Association, prompting the gun rights group to declare victory in its ongoing fight with the liberal city.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Tuesday marked the two-year anniversary of the Las Vegas Strip massacre — the most deadly mass shooting in recent U.S. history — by accusing President Trump of ignoring the scourge of gun violence.
The man who killed seven and wounded 25 last month in an Odessa, Texas, shooting had been on police’s radar eight years prior as being a potential threat to public safety, according to new reports.
Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain on Saturday bragged that his controversial gun tweet that many deemed as a threat against Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke had actually helped boost his popularity among voters.
Former Texas Congressman Robert Francis O’Rourke abandoned his run for President last week, once again leaving a void for the most strident anti-gun candidate seeking the Democrat nomination. Even before declaring his candidacy for President, California Representative Eric Swalwell raised the specter of banning AR-15s and similar firearms, forcing Americans to turn them in through a confiscation scheme mislabeled as a “mandatory buyback,” then “go[ing] after” resisters. He even famously “joked” about using nukes to enforce his scheme.
Photo Courtesy of Jeremy Tremp In recent weeks, gun owners have been given two prime examples of just how important strong firearms preemption laws are to the vibrant exercise of Second Amendment rights. On October 22, the Montana Supreme Court struck down a Missoula ordinance that purported to restrict city residents’ ability to transfer firearms. On October 29, Allegheny County Common Pleas Senior Judge Joseph M. James struck down a raft of Pittsburgh ordinances that purported to regulate the use of firearms in public places within the city and provide for the confiscation of firearms without due process. In both instances the tribunals pointed to the state firearms preemption statute as precluding the locality’s anti-gun efforts.
On November 7th, the Wisconsin Legislature adjourned from its special session not long after it was convened. Governor Tony Evers’ latest attempt to pass gun control failed.
On November 12, 2019, state Senator Damon Thayer (R-17) will receive the Defender of Freedom Award from the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action in recognition of his tireless efforts to defend liberty and protect the interests of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen in Kentucky.
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