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During his Wednesday town hall on CNN, former President Donald Trump told moderator Kaitlan Collins that the U.S. needs a strong focus on mental health and hardening schools, not gun control.

A Murfreesboro, Tennessee, homeowner opened fire on two alleged masked intruders Friday night around 8:30 p.m. after the family dog was tased. 

Texas state Rep. Justin Holland (R-Rockwall) caved to gun controllers Monday and voted in support of a bill, HB 2744, to raise the minimum purchase age for AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21.

The 33-year-old who opened fire on the Allen, Texas, outlet mall Saturday was Level II and Level III certified for a security guard position in Texas, according to CNN. 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) is calling the Democrat Caucus to meet and discuss ways to act on President Biden’s request for more gun control.

CNN reported that the guns used by the alleged attacker at the Allen, Texas, outlet mall Saturday were legally purchased “over time.”

On Monday the state of Illinois and city of Naperville responded to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s notice that they respond to an injunction request against their “assault weapon” bans.

Here 4 the Kids, a gun control group comprised of mothers, is urging Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) to use an executive order to ban all guns in the state. 

CLAIM: “Doctor Strange” director Scott Derrickson reacted to the Allen, Texas, mall shooting by claiming guns are “the number one cause of death” for children.

In the wake of Saturday’s Allen, Texas, mall shooting, Mike Bloomberg gun control affiliate Shannon Watts criticized Lone Star State lawmakers for not raising the minimum purchase age for AR-15s to 21. 

ABC News reported that 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, who opened fire at the Allen, Texas, outlet mall Saturday afternoon, was removed from the U.S. Army in 2008 “due to mental health concerns.”

Part of President Joe Biden’s reaction to the mall shooting in Allen, Texas, on Saturday was to go after Republicans by saying, “Tweeted thoughts and prayers are not enough.”

At least 20 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) responded to calls for more gun control following Saturday’s Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by noting that blue states with stringent gun control have “mass shootings” as well.

Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera reacted to the Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by suggesting that politicians who pose with AR-15s should also pose with dead bodies. 

NBC News reports that “senior law enforcement officials” indicate the suspect who opened fire at an Allen, Texas, outlet mall was armed with a handgun and a rifle.

CLAIM: President Joe Biden reacted to the Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by claiming “there have been roughly 200 mass shootings” in America thus far in 2023.

As law enforcement descends on the home of Saturday’s suspected Allen, Texas, mall shooter, his parents have “requested a translator,” according to reports cited by Fox News. 

Carlton Gilford is facing hate crime charges for allegedly shooting two men — 35-year-old Lundin Hathcock and 55-year-old James McDaniel — to death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 18.

A Fox News report on surging female gun ownership includes a focus on a 2022 Gallup Poll showing 22 percent of women now say they own guns.

Gun control Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted Sunday that AR-15 rifles are not necessary for hunting or self-defense and suggested mass shooters would be those “most affected” by an “assault weapons” ban.

Eight people were killed and numerous others injured after shots were fired at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas.

CLAIM: Rep. Colin Allred’s (D-TX) campaign manager, Paige Hutchinson, says a recording in which Allred suggests things would be better in the United States if the Second Amendment had not been written is “highly edited.”

An audio recording captured by Congressional Republicans in 2018 presents Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), suggesting things would be better in the U.S. if the Second Amendment had not been written.

A Long Beach, California man traveled to North Ogden, Utah, rang his estranged brother’s doorbell on April 27, then shot his brother to death when he answered the door. 

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), cosponsored universal background legislation in the U.S. House on March 1, 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris pushed an “assault weapons” ban the day after a 24-year-old former member of the Coast Guard killed one and wounded four with a handgun in Atlanta.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) are introducing legislation Thursday to create a national “Stand Your Ground” law.

The IRS has spent $10 million on firearms, ammunition, and “military-style gear” since 2020, the New York Post said on May 2, citing an Open the Books report.

Twenty-four-year-old Deion Patterson, the Northside Hospital shooting suspect, was apprehended around 7:45 p.m. near Truist Park where the Atlanta Braves play baseball.

The employee handbook for Atlanta’s Northside Hospital, the site at which an attacker shot and killed one and wounded three on Wednesday, has a gun-free policy prohibiting “the possession of weapons.”

The Atlanta Police Department identified 24-year-old Deion Patterson as the suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at Atlanta’s Northside Hospital. 

The Atlanta Police Department released a photo and BOLO (Be On the Lookout) as a suspect remained at large following reports of a shooting on W. Peachtree St. between 12th St. and 13th St.

Nine people were shot dead Wednesday morning when a seventh grader with two handguns opened fire in a school in Belgrade, Serbia, despite the nation’s stringent gun controls.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) latest gun control push includes the claim that there have been “over a dozen” mass shootings in America since Friday.

A coalition of gun rights groups filed a lawsuit against California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases Tuesday, claiming that the state-imposed delay “isn’t analogous to any constitutionally relevant history” and therefore cannot survive the Bruen (2022) test.