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Two gun controls, one of which was a bump stock ban, were defeated in the Pennsylvania House on Tuesday despite a rally by activists and pro-gun control lawmakers. 

A task force put together by the Los Angeles United School District is recommending that individual campuses be allowed to bring police back if they so choose.

An Amazon delivery driver shot and killed an alleged armed carjacker around 4:00 p.m. Saturday in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood.

A report from Colorado Newsline indicates the Democrat sponsor of Colorado’s “assault weapons” ban legislation plans to kill her own bill.

Firearm-related crime is surging in heavily gun-controlled Canada, according to a report from Toronto Star contributor Shaquille Morgan.

At least 23 people were shot, two of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

NYPD’s Kaz Daughtry reacted to Columbia University protests by noting “tools” found were not those of organic protesters but those of “agitators.”

April 2024 marked the fifty-seventh consecutive month of more than one million NICS checks for gun sales or transfers.

Pro-Palestinian protester Atha Othman was arrested while allegedly armed with a gun Tuesday on the University of South Florida campus.

Reps. Michael Bost (R-IL) and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-American Samoa) on Wednesday voted against Rep. Eli Crane’s (R-AZ) amendment to restore veterans’ gun rights.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing Biden’s ATF over the new rule requiring background checks on private gun sales. 

On Tuesday, the House voted 214-201 to block the Biden administration’s ban on the use of lead ammunition on federal lands or waters.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is taking lawsuits against the Illinois “assault weapons” ban and the ban in Maryland into conference. 

President Joe Biden responded to a felon allegedly killing four officers in North Carolina Monday by pushing more gun controls for law-abiding Americans.

The North Carolina man who shot and killed four law enforcement officers was a felon barred from firearm possession. 

Houston Texans’ wide receiver Tank Dell was struck by a stray bullet at Sanford, Florida’s Cabana Live Saturday night and sustained minor injuries.

In 2023, the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas warned Americans that taking ammo into Turks and Caicos carried a “custodial sentence of 12 years.”

Four law enforcement officers were killed trying to serve a warrant in east Charlotte, North Carolina, around 1:30 p.m. on Monday.

An armed robbery suspect in Kenner, Louisiana, was shot dead Sunday after he shot and wounded three police officers Sunday morning before noon.

Two people were killed and four others wounded after two men opened fire on each other just after midnight Sunday in San Antonio. 

An arrest warrant has been issued for 22-year-old Xavier Tate Jr., the suspect sought in connection with the April 21, 2024, shooting death of Chicago police officer Luis M. Huesca.

The Orange County Register’s editorial board mocked Gavin Newsom’s failed push for a gun control amendment to the Constitution. 

A suspect is under arrest after five people were shot on Friday outside of a nightclub in heavily gun-controlled Washington, DC.

A homeowner in Surprise, Arizona, shot and wounded one of two alleged burglary suspects shortly after 4:00 a.m. Monday.

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) signed Second Amendment privacy acts this week barring the use of credit card merchant codes to collect data on retail firearm purchasers.

U.S. District Court judge William S. Stickman decided this week against Pennsylvania’s prohibition on 18-20-year-olds securing a concealed carry permit in order to be armed on their persons for self-defense. 

Eight people were shot, two of them fatally, during a road takeover at an “unsanctioned public party” in Democrat-controlled Memphis on Saturday night. 

Chicago police officer Luis M. Huesca was shot and killed just before 3 a.m. while driving home after his shift with the department ended. 

Former Philadelphia police officer Edsaul Mendoza was found guilty Friday over the murder of 12-year-old Thomas “TJ” Siderio in March 2022.

Alleged would-be school shooter Andrea Ye prefers to go by “Alex” and wrote of killing children “because little kids make easier targets.”

An alleged intruder is dead after a Beaver County, Pennsylvania, woman opened fire on him with a 9mm pistol at about 5:00 a.m. Wednesday.

Andrea Ye was arrested Wednesday after Maryland’s Montgomery County Police Department was alerted to her 129-page school shooting manifesto. 

The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling and upheld the state’s ban on so-called “ghost guns.”

New Orleans police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick wants gun-free zones within the city where even licensed carriers could not be armed for self-defense.

Maine Senate Democrats wrapped up their legislative session by passing gun control in response to the October 25, 2023, Lewiston shooting. 

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