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Los Angeles County supervisors are pushing a .50 cal. rifle ban after a 9mm pistol was used in the January 21, 2023, Monterey Park, California, mass shooting.

A man was shot and killed Saturday after he allegedly threatened and approached a Texas homeowner who was armed with a shotgun late Saturday morning.

Liberals in Canada folded amid backlash from farmers, hunters, and indigenous groups, and have removed hunting rifles and shotguns from the long list of firearms being banned under Prime Minister Trudeau’s “assault weapons” ban.

At least 19 people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

On Thursday a three judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision striking the requirement that subjects of domestic violence restraining orders give up their guns.

A clothing store clerk in East Hartford, Connecticut, opened fire Thursday night, shooting and killing an alleged robber who entered the store in a ski mask.

A survey released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that two-thirds of California adults believe gun control is more important than gun rights. 

A judge ruled Wednesday that a wrongful death suit filed against Kyle Rittenhouse over the shooting death of Anthony Huber can proceed.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) used a press conference Wednesday to make clear his response to recent mass shootings in California will be to limit concealed carry.

Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and John Cornyn (R-TX), introduced legislation Wednesday to treat concealed carry permits like drivers’ licenses, making a permit from any one state valid in the other 49. 

A Washington, DC, Metro employee was shot and killed Wednesday while intervening to protect a woman near the Potomac Avenue Metro.

CLAIM: In the lead-up to his February 1 push for more gun control, California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed, “Permitless carry does not make you safer.”

Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and John Kennedy (R-LA) are pushing legislation to end the National Firearms Act’s registration and regulation purview over short-barreled rifles, thereby eliminating the ATF’s pistol brace rule.

An alleged southwest Oregon kidnapper died Tuesday following a standoff with police that ended with the kidnapper apparently shooting himself. 

Maryland Democrat lawmakers are pushing legislation that would bar licensed concealed carriers from carrying a gun for self-defense onto someone else’s property unless given explicit permission to do so.

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, shot and killed a man in his 30s Tuesday who allegedly walked into a Target store and fired rounds.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) secured a preliminary injunction Tuesday against New Jersey’s A1765, which was intended to create avenues by which public nuisance laws could be used to sue gun manufacturers.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) published its pistol brace rule in the Federal Register on Tuesday and was immediately sued by Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL).

Months after the Supreme Court of the United States Bruen (2022) decision changed the concealed carry landscape, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office approved a concealed carry permit application.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ pistol brace rule was published in the Federal Registry Tuesday, which means owners of said braces have 120 days to register them with the ATF.

An 80-year-old Chicago man is hospitalized in critical condition after fighting with an alleged home intruder Monday before shooting the suspect and sending him to the hospital as well.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) announced Monday he will use the Congressional Review Act against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF’s) pistol/stabilizer brace rule. 

New Mexico state Senator William P. Soules (D) is pushing legislation to ban handguns he describes as “assault pistols.” 

Legislation that would make Florida the 26th constitutional carry state in the Union was introduced in the state House on Monday.

A man pumping gas in central Phoenix shot and killed an alleged armed robber about 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

The occupant of an El Mirage, Arizona, home opened fire Saturday evening, killing one of four alleged armed home intruders. 

At least 15 people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Sen. Amy Klobuchar posted a video to Twitter in which she pushed an “assault weapons” ban in response to two shootings carried out with pistols.

Israeli ministers are weighing numerous options, including expediting firearm licenses to arm more civilians, in the aftermath of Friday’s terror attack.

The Daily Ridge reported that an alleged intruder, 27-year-old Tyriek Tramaine Washington, was hospitalized in “critical but stable condition” after being shot by a Haines City, Florida, homeowner Friday morning. 

An alleged home intruder was shot four time by a Haines City, Florida, resident on Friday and afterward Police Chief Gregory Goreck warned other intruders, “We live in Florida … most people are armed.”

At least seven people were shot early Saturday, three of them fatally, in what turned out to be gun-controlled “California’s fourth mass shooting in a week.”

At least three Oklahoma sheriffs have posted videos and/or notices on their Facebook pages to let the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) know they have no intention of enforcing the pistol brace rule in non-criminal situations.

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A Detroit, Michigan, man was shot dead Tuesday around 8:30 p.m. after allegedly pointing a green laser at a police helicopter, then opening fire on it as it hovered above his house.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) tweeted Wednesday that unelected Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) bureaucrats are “destroying our Second Amendment.”