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CLAIM: During Friday’s airing of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) claimed an AR-15 rifle is an “automatic weapon.” VERDICT: False. AR-15s are semiautomatic firearms.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed legislation Friday containing a red flag law and universal background checks, both of which are already in place in California and are failing to stop mass shootings.

During an interview with USA Today, published this week, musician Dave Matthews blasted people who say “it’s the guns.” Matthews offered no ideas or policy solutions while he pushed for politicians to do something while also saying, “No one is coming for your guns.”

Colorado’s Biofire swears they have made a functional “smart gun” but all my attempts to test it–whether to have them send one to me for review or to have me got to their facility to test it–have been denied or met with delays and/or silence.

Maine State Rep. Suzanne Salisbury (D) voiced support for gun control measures moving through the state legislature, suggesting lawmakers have to look beyond the Second Amendment and act in light of “real world experience.”

Gunmaker Heckler & Koch noted Thursday one of their policies had been violated and the problem had been fixed, explaining they would be involve themselves in “identity politics.”

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) vetoed a trio of Democrat-sponsored gun control bills Tuesday, just ahead of a press conference in which Democrats were allegedly planning to try to pressure him into signing the measures. 

The Supreme Court of the United States announced Wednesday it has chosen not to intervene against the Naperville “assault weapons” ban, but instead will let the judicial process run its normal course.

On Tuesday, Minnesota’s Democrat legislators passed many of the same gun controls that are failing to stop mass shootings in California. 

Gunmaker Hecker & Koch deleted a series tweets siding with Miller Lite’s woke campaign against using sexy women–“bunnies”–in ad campaigns to sell product. 

An alleged intruder was shot dead Sunday morning after entering a Phoenix, Arizona, home, where he was confronted by the homeowner.

Legislation to end a permitting requirement for concealed carry is on the move in Louisiana and would make the state the 28th to adopt constitutional carry as the law of the land.

Gunmaker Heckler & Koch tweeted agreement with Miller Lite’s woke campaign against using sexy women to sell products, then doubled down in a second tweet, describing ad campaigns that objectify women as “trash marketing.”

FOX News host Will Cain weighed in on the Memphis Grizzlies suspending Ja Morant for a second time over a gun issue by asking, “Does Ja Morant have 2A rights?”

Activists seeking restrictions on the Second Amendment are fond of citing “homicide rates” instead of raw homicide numbers. They do this because it allows them to skirt any admission of gun control failures in blue states.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) introduced legislation Monday to repeal the gun control Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) helped President Joe Biden secure in the summer of 2022. 

Police in Allen, Texas, say Steven Spainhouer — the former Army officer who claimed to have performed CPR on shooting victims in the May 6, 2023, mall attack — was not present when the firearm-based attack occurred and was not first on scene thereafter as he allegedly claimed.

Three people were shot and killed in Farmington, New Mexico, despite the state’s red flag and universal background check laws.

On Friday the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office released dashcam video of a felon allegedly shooting at sheriff’s deputies, striking one three times then dying after the deputy returned fire. 

Two people were killed and four others injured during a shooting between rival motorcycle gangs in Augusta, Georgia, Saturday night.

Twitter lit up Sunday with a back-and-forth on Memphis Grizzlies’ Ja Morant’s second suspension for allegedly brandishing a gun.

Three men with Chicago gang affiliations were charged Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of three women in Beverly Hills, California, earlier this year.

A homeowner in Los Angeles’ Northridge neighborhood escaped unharmed after an unidentified gunman opened fire on him as he pulled into the driveway of his house.

President Joe Biden used a tweet on Sunday to reiterate his push for an “assault weapons” ban, but he also took aim at “100-round” ammunition magazines.

At least 26 people were shot, four of them fatally, during Lori Lightfoot’s (D) last weekend as Mayor of Chicago.

An alleged knife-wielding intruder was hospitalized after a Constantine Township, Michigan, homeowner shot him Friday night around 10 p.m.

Memphis Grizzlies Ja Morant is suspended from all team activities after a video of him allegedly brandishing another gun has surfaced. 

Gun control proponent Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is hinting that there could be a “popular revolt” if the Supreme Court of the United State strikes down “assault weapons” bans or other favored Democrat gun laws. 

Two people are dead and several others injured after shoots were fired during what police describe as “a gathering” Saturday night in Yuma, Arizona. 

At least 14 people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Friday that prohibits credit card companies from tracking gun sales in Florida.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Payne issued a decision against a prohibition of handgun sales to 18-20-year-olds, noting “the Second Amendment includes the corollary right to purchase firearms.”

Serbians have begun handing over firearms, ammunition, and “pieces of mines and explosive devices” following President Aleksandar Vučić’s May 5 announcement of “almost total disarmament.” 

A Cameron, Texas, police officer was shot and killed Wednesday night while trying to execute a warrant on a suspect believed to have shot his spouse in the back just before 11 p.m.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) is introducing legislation to raise the minimum purchase age for a semiautomatic firearm to 25. 

Breitbart News spoke with presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy (R) about the left’s knee-jerk gun control reaction to high profile shootings and noted his conviction that the focus should be on things like mental health and the breakdown of the nuclear family, rather firearm laws.