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Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, is cheering executive gun controls expected to come from the Biden Administration soon. 

Democrats in the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force are pressing Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) to allow gun control legislation to come to the floor for a vote. 

Ohio police officers opened fire on a couple who fled from police, hijacked a semi-truck, took the driver of the truck hostage, and led officers on a high speed chase.

A young woman was killed and a toddler and others injured when multiple gunmen opened fire Wednesday in broad daylight in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago.

National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers released by the FBI at the end of July show the U.S. has enjoyed four years of one million-plus gun sales a month.

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down a decision Tuesday reversing a district court order rejecting a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) pistol brace rule and remanding the case to the district court for reconsideration.

A 75-year-old woman who was home alone at 2 a.m. in Oakland, California, used a .357 Magnum against alleged intruders.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is urging the Biden Administration to “issue” new gun controls under the auspices of the gun control package passed by Congress and signed by Biden in 2022. 

Four people were injured just before 4 p.m. Monday after an apparent argument between two carloads of people turned into shots fired near Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle in Columbus, Mississippi.

The L.A. Clippers’ Amir Coffey was arrested Sunday and charged with firearm possession after police allegedly found a loaded gun in a vehicle in which he was riding.

An apartment resident shot and killed an alleged intruder around 1 a.m. Monday morning in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Nearly 50 people were shot, five of them fatally, Friday into Sunday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

A report from the Washington Examiner claims upwards of 60 percent of Americans may be gun owners, an increase of approximately 25 percent over numbers widely reported heretofore. 

Nine women were shot Sunday morning just before 1 a.m. when multiple gunmen exited a vehicle and opened fire on a group of people in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood. 

Police are searching for multiple suspects after five people were shot outside of a Safeway grocery store Friday night at around 9:00 p.m. in gun-controlled Washington.

The owner of a stolen Ford truck tracked the vehicle to the south side of a mall parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, then killed the alleged thief during a shootout Thursday afternoon.

A FOX News report claims that the Biden Administration is withholding funding for schools that have archery and/or hunting programs.

A five-year-old Indiana boy, allegedly high on cocaine, shot and killed his 16-month-old brother, who was allegedly high on marijuana, in March of this year.

A Rockingham County, North Carolina, man who absconded probation was shot and killed by a homeowner while allegedly trying to enter a storage building on the homeowner’s property.

A naked woman allegedly exited her vehicle on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday and fired a handgun at oncoming traffic.

During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a question about prosecuting people who possess guns illegally. 

Aaron Hernandez’s older brother, Dennis “D.J.” Hernandez, has been arrested over concern he was allegedly planning school shootings.

Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Amar Gandhi says a California father who opened fire on an armed attacker to save his family is a “hero.”

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court decision against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) “partially complete” pistol frame rule.

Crime in surging in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago, with carjackings in particular up 126 percent.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed Sunday that there have been more than 400 “mass shootings” in the United States thus far in 2023. 

Forbes pointed to misleading data Sunday and claimed there had been over 400 “mass shootings” in the United States so far in 2023.

A 26-year-old man in Polk County, Florida, reportedly shot and killed his pregnant transgender partner and the baby the partner was carrying on Friday around 7 p.m.

Nearly 30 people were shot Friday through mid-afternoon Sunday in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

Nearly 20 people were shot, five of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

Mike Bloomberg gun control affiliated Shannon Watts is trying to pressure the Grand Ole Opry into preventing Jason Aldean from headlining an August fundraiser, organized to raise money for the families and community of Covenant Christian School, where three children and three adults were slain on March 27, 2023.

Police indicated that 37-year-old Mohamad Barakat, the man who shot and killed a Fargo, North Dakota, police officer on July 14, 2023, was armed with seven guns, a hand grenade, and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition, among other things.

On Wednesday, the Houston office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives tweeted a photo of ATF Austin agents at the gun range, and the photo appears to show an agent on the wrong side of the loading table with at least one gun pointed at him.

CNN cited a study from Tulane University and claimed “structural racism” may be behind mass shootings in large cities like Chicago and Milwaukee.

An armed intruder in an McDonald County, Missouri, home was discovered by two homeowners around 9:30 a.m. and confronted, shot, and detained, for police.

The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department reported that a carjacker was shot and wounded by a concealed carry permit holder at 6:39 a.m. Monday morning.