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The Albuquerque Police Department released body cam footage showing an officer on horseback chasing an alleged shoplifter who was on foot.

Senate candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) supports legislation that, if passed into law, would prohibit Arizonans from buying AR-15 rifles. 

Colorado Democrats are pushing an 11 percent excise tax on gun and ammunition sales, as well as numerous other California-style gun controls.

At least 32 people were shot, four of them fatally, during Easter Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) is pushing legislation to make it easier for gun owners in the state to have their firearms confiscated.

Watchtower Firearms is producing the Apache, a 2011 pistol that operates with incredible smoothness and delivers unsurpassed accuracy.

President Joe Biden posted on X Thursday to brag about how many times he has circumvented Congress by securing gun control via executive action.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) launched an investigation into the recently announced National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.

Sheriff Bob Johnson of Santa Rosa County, Florida, stands by 2022 comments he made encouraging homeowners to shoot intruders and points out the odds of a dead intruder committing another offense are “zero.”

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed Democrat lawmakers’ “assault weapons” ban on Tuesday, along with a number of other Democrat-backed gun controls.

Thirteen Democrat Attorneys General wrote a letter to renowned gun maker Glock, noting Chicago’s lawsuit against the company and expressing concern over “machine-gun Glocks.”

The mother of a 12-year-old Harris County, Texas, boy who allegedly stabbed a 59-year-old says she is sorry but her son is “just a boy” and “we learn from our mistakes.”

31-year-old NYPD officer Christopher Diller was fatally shot during a traffic stop Monday by a man with multiple prior arrests.

An Albuquerque woman acted to protect her grandson by shooting a man who was allegedly trying to break into her house to elude police. 

Felony assaults on NYC subways jumped 53 percent during 2023 compared to the same type of assaults during 2019, according to statistics.

A 17-year-old girl allegedly gained control of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputy’s gun Sunday night and committed suicide with it inside a police station.

President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), celebrated the launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center and the administration’s subsequent pledge of $750 million the Center can use to pursue more red flag laws. 

On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school and announced three quarters of a billion dollars being dedicated to securing more red flag laws. 

Eleven people were shot, five of them fatally, between Thursday at 6:00 p.m. and Friday at 6:00 p.m. in Democrat-controlled Atlanta, Georgia.

Ash Cooper, formerly Joshua Cooper, was sentenced to a Pennsylvania state prison after pleading guilty to murdering a 12-year-old girl. 

A Houston man was shot multiple times Thursday around 7:30 p.m., allegedly by a woman who claims she pulled the trigger in self-defense.

Freshman House Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) is heading up the Democrats’ latest gun control push by seeking to ban “zombie guns.”

A judge ordered the FBI to release the journals of the transgender woman who killed 6 people at a Nashville Christian school on March 27, 2023.

Arizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers (R) is pushing legislation to allow college students with concealed carry permits to be armed for self-defense on campus. 

Seventh Circuit nominee Nancy Maldonado supported Illinois’s “assault weapons” ban but cannot define an “assault weapon.”

A Trenton, New Jersey, homeowner shot and killed an alleged hammer-wielding intruder on Sunday just before 10:30 p.m.

California Democrats are pushing to replace the current one-time gun registration system with a once-a-year registration requirement, coupled with a fee to the state.

The “assault weapons” ban being pushed by Colorado House Democrats would prohibit the sale of 9mm pistols with threaded barrels. 

FBI figures reported by NBC News on March 19, 2024, show that crime fell during 2023, a year in which there were over one million background checks a month for gun purchases.

A Florida hunter shot a man in the head shortly before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday after allegedly mistaking the man for a turkey.

The City of Chicago filed a lawsuit against handgun maker Glock on March 19, 2024, claiming that Glock is liable over the ease with which a “Glock switch” can be used to convert the semiautomatic handguns into full-auto. 

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) is standing with House Democrats in her state who are pushing for a ban on “assault weapons.”

An alleged Muskegon County, Michigan, intruder was shot dead by a homeowner Monday morning at 2 a.m. 

The gvernors of Indiana and Utah signed bills last week to prohibit credit cards from tracking firearm sales information in their states.

Eighteen people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

Hollywood and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence are teaming up via CBS’s S.W.A.T. to include gun control messages during the show.