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Twenty-eight Senate Republicans are zeroing in on Amalgamated Bank over credit card companies’ recent decisions to recategorize gun sales in a way that allows them to be flagged.

The Supreme Court of the United States declined Monday to overturn the bump stock ban that took effect in March 2019. 

Thirty-four people were shot, five of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Saskatchewan joined Alberta on Saturday in rejecting enforcement of Justin Trudeau’s “assault weapons” ban.

On Friday Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) warned would-be looters that they would be risking their lives by trying to enter the homes of Ian victims, saying, “We’re a Second Amendment state.”

During a discussion with actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas at a DNC Women’s Leadership Forum, Vice President Kamala Harris emphatically told the audience that “assault weapons” were “designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly.”

During Friday night’s Texas gubernatorial debate, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) explained that he does not support raising the minimum rifle purchase age from 18 to 21 because of questions of constitutionality.

The football team at Santa Clarita, California’s, Saugus High School has been informed they will no longer be allowed to carry a “Thin Blue Line” flag beside the U.S. flag when they take the field. 

An alleged would-be robber in San Antonio, Texas, died Thursday night after an armed Valero gas station clerk shot him dead. 

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced legislation Thursday to protect Americans from the gun controls being put in place by the ATF via regulatory action.

Bodycam video released this week by Pierce County, Washington, investigators shows an officer pull his service rifle out of a bag over 180 yards from a suspect allegedly shooting at police and take him out with one shot. 

A SWAT Team in Tucson, Arizona, opened fire on robbery suspect Francisco Javier Galarza after he allegedly put a gun to a police K9’s head while being apprehended. 

Survivors of the Highland Park, Illinois, July 4th parade shooting have filed suit against Smith & Wesson, an online gun retailer, and an Illinois gun retailer. 

A shooting outside Bay Area Technology School left multiple people wounded Wednesday in gun-controlled California. 

At least 16 people were shot Tuesday into Wednesday in Democrat-run New York City despite the passage of new gun controls, which include the establishment of gun-free zones through the city.

One person is dead and a “person of interest” in custody following a shooting at CHI St. Vincent’s North hospital in Sherwood, Arkansas, on Wednesday. 

A man wielding a shotgun in a convenience store in Florida’s Escambia County turned and left when the clerk pointed a .45 caliber pistol at him.

Alberta  Justice Minister Tyler Shandro has made clear he will not enforce Justin Trudeau’s “assault weapons” ban and is seeking to join legal challenges to have the ban declared unconstitutional.

An alleged intruder who was shot by a Tulsa, Oklahoma, homeowner Tuesday afternoon was found dead in the residence’s driveway when officers arrived.

Democrat Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed an executive order Tuesday banning the carry of guns — even by concealed permit holders — in city parks and recreational centers.

At least two gunman opened fire on football players following a scrimmage between Roxborough High School and Northeast High School on Tuesday afternoon.

Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Democrat-run Philadelphia witnessed 750 shootings during the summer of 2022 alone. 

The LAPD has released video showing what officers saw when they arrived on scene September 17 for a domestic violence call and ended up shooting 19-year-old Luis Herrera dead after he pointed a rifle at them.

A report by Global Times, an official Chinese Communist Party propaganda outlet, claims China is readying a focused push against “global gun proliferation.” 

Fifteen people were killed and 24 wounded during a school shooting in Russia on Monday despite that country’s “restrictive” gun control policies. 

A woman in Patterson, California, shot and killed an alleged intruder Saturday night as he fought her husband, who was trying to keep the suspect out of the home.

Nearly 40 people were shot, six of them fatally, during another violent weekend across Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Temple University graduate Everett Beauregard was walking home just after midnight Thursday when he was shot and killed on the sidewalk by an attacker.

Eleven people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday morning alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

During a Friday speech to the National Education Association, President Joe Biden reiterated his jumbled claim about the speed at which AR-15 bullets move compared to bullets fired from other guns.

During a speech to a teachers’ union Friday, President Joe Biden admitted that AR-15s, AK-47s, and other guns Democrats call “assault weapons” are designed “to defend people.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the launch of a gun violence prevention office amid continued shootings across the state, which is number one in gun control. 

The Brandon High School athletics booster club in Brandon, Mississippi, is raffling nearly 30 guns during the month of October in a fundraiser for school athletics.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund is urging Democrats to campaign more on gun control as a way to shake the party’s soft-on-crime image.

U.S. District Judge David Counts, a Donald Trump appointee, ruled Monday laws barring people with felony indictments from purchasing guns do not square with the Constitution.

Kyle Rittenhouse, who used a rifle to protect himself during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots, says this will be the first year in which he is able to vote and he looks forward to supporting pro-2A candidates.