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California’s SB 1327 went into effect on January 1, 2023, allowing private residents in the state to file suits against gun manufacturers who violate the state’s “assault weapons” ban or ban on gun sales to anyone under 21.

On January 4, 2022, Parkland father Andrew Pollack’s 501c3 “Meadows Movement” will be donating eight backpacks, each containing an AR pistol, to Florida’s Bradford County Sheriff’s Office for use in Bradford County schools.

A woman in Philadelphia with a concealed carry permit shot and wounded an alleged attacker about 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day.

Alabama’s constitutional carry law took effect January 1, 2023, meaning law-abiding Americans in 25 states can now carry a gun for self-defense without paying the government a fee or getting government permission.

There were over 500 homicides in Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Philadelphia in 2022, making 2022 the second consecutive year that the threshold of at least 500 homicides has been reached.

Twelve people were shot, two of them fatally, Friday thru Saturday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has abandoned its plans to destroy gunrunning evidence from Operation Fast and Furious following Republican intervention.

The Battle Tested Equipment (BTE-USA) MK5 is a flawlessly reliable 9mm pistol built American-tough and compact enough to be practical for a broad range of uses. 

A Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Thursday afternoon during a traffic stop near the 3900 block of Golden West Avenue. 

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago will end 2022 with at least 723 murders for the year.

A column from USA Today suggests lawmakers struggling to get traction on gun control may want to redirect their energies toward “bullet regulation.” 

Witnesses in Gainesville, Georgia, disarmed an alleged robber Christmas morning after he slipped and fell on ice. 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a letter December 27, 2022, which designates “partially complete pistol frames” as “firearms.” 

Avatar director James Cameron has produced movies using dozens of guns, many of which were machine guns and submachine guns, before denouncing firearms and bragging about cutting scenes with them in his underperforming sequel Avatar: The Way of Water.

An alleged armed robber was shot dead Monday morning around 9:30 a.m. by a tow truck driver with a concealed carry permit. 

Des Moines, Iowa, police shot and killed a 16-year-old boy after he allegedly raised a handgun toward officers during a domestic dispute call December 26, 2022, around 12:30 a.m.

Two people were killed and four others wounded during an overnight shooting in Democrat-run New Orleans.

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy, Corporal Ray Hamilton, was shot and fatally wounded just before 3 p.m. Saturday while responding to a domestic violence call in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. 

Police indicate Friday’s shooting at the Mall of America occurred around 7:50 p.m. after two groups of teens got into a fight in Nordstrom.

Mall of America was closed down Friday after a shooting inside the mall left one dead and two injured. 

Texas has decided to drop its effort to appeal an August 25, 2022, U.S. District Judge decision that found the state’s ban on 18-20 year-olds carrying guns in public unconstitutional. 

Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed legislation Thursday limiting the locations in which concealed carry permit holders can be armed for self-defense. 

A 21-year-old woman was shot dead Wednesday night after allegedly taking a Richland, Mississippi, Walmart customer service employee hostage. 

Former MMA fighter Tim Kennedy appeared on Lance Armstrong’s “The Forward” podcast in March 2018, where he criticized American gun laws and voiced support for barring AR-15 access for 19-year-olds.

In 2019 the FBI received, investigated, and eventually closed an investigation into a tip on the gunman who opened fire inside Indiana’s Greenwood Mall on July  17, 2022.

The city of Buffalo, New York, has filed suit against numerous gun makers seven months after an attacker with a Bushmaster AR-15 shot and killed ten innocents in a grocery store.

Illinois Democrat state Rep. Bob Morgan is pushing “assault weapons” registration and a gun owner’s fee and claims that AR-15s are not used to defend against home intruders. 

Hall of Fame wrestler “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan subdued an alleged intruder in his Kershaw County, South Carolina, home, then used a .44 Magnum handgun to keep the suspect in place until the police arrived. 

GOP Reps. Elise Stefanik and August Pfluger are demanding answers from the CDC after the agency caved to gun control advocates and removed defensive gun use information from its website.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez issued an injunction Monday blocking a fee-shifting provision in SB 1327 designed to dissuade lawsuits against gun controls in California.

Five people are dead after a 73-year-old man allegedly went on a shooting spree inside a condominium in Toronto on Sunday night. 

A driver with a concealed carry permit fought back in Eastpointe, Michigan, shooting an alleged carjacker who was attempting to take the driver’s Dodge Charger Hellcat.

An alleged intruder awoke a homeowner by attempting to enter the bedroom of a Pahrump, Nevada, home and was subsequently shot twice in the chest.

A 16-year-old was shot on the CTA Red Line in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago Sunday morning around 2 a.m. 

A 14-year-old and 16-year-old were killed, and others injured, after a social media dispute turned into guns being drawn and shots fired between two groups Saturday evening in Democrat-run Atlanta.

A contract worker with a gun stopped an armed attacker who shot and wounded one individual at an Amazon facility in Chandler, Arizona.