Fifty-eight Massachusetts lawmakers — both Democratic and Republican — signed a letter to state Attorney General Maura Healey (D) condemning her July 20 issuance of a directive expanding the state’s nearly 20-year-old “assault weapons” ban.
On July 20, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) issued a directive expanding the state’s “assault weapons” ban to cover sales of weapons that had previously been interpreted as outside the ban.
An Associated Press (AP) poll released July 23 shows that 59 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of gun laws, and an even greater majority, 62 percent, believe owning a gun makes people safer by “preventing them from becoming victims of crime.”
On July 22 Hillary Clinton announced Tim Kaine as her running mate. Kaine is a Democrat Senator from Virginia who supports a ban on 15-round “clips” and “assault weapons,” and who wants to enact a law to hold gun dealers liable for the misuse of firearms.
FBI crime stats for 2014 show that no rifles of any kind–“assault” rifles or otherwise–were used to murder state residents in 2014, the last year for which such stats are available.
Four Seasons gun shop in Woburn sent out an email as soon as it learned of Healey’s directive. The email said the store would not be able to sell AR-15s or other guns categorized as “assault weapons” after July 20. Bruce Sterling rushed to the gun store, saying, “It seemed like it made a lot of sense to come and get an AR-15 today.”
The Massachusetts AG said she made the decision after “assault weapons” were recently used in high-profile attacks in Baton Rouge, Dallas, and Orlando, and prior to that in Newtown, Aurora, and San Bernardino. She did not tie any of these attacks to sales in her state, but she is ending the sales nonetheless.
Shaun King, writing at the New York Daily News, reacted to the deaths of three Baton Rouge police officers by claiming that background checks cannot work; therefore, it is time to confiscate all “assault rifles.”
A man is dead after opening fire on four Baltimore police officers on Thursday night.
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12) said even a “non-lawyer” knows the Second Amendment protects muskets, not “assault weapons.”
On Tuesday Democrats in the House and Senate put forward legislation to bar individuals 16 years and younger from shooting AR-15s. The bill also bars individuals 16 years and under from shooting a machine gun, and this would include “blocking
A massive makeshift refugee camp has been established in Lake Como, the popular and secluded celebrity hideaway in Italy where Hollywood A-lister George Clooney keeps a home.
The Democrat Party’s 2016 party platform draft makes one thing clear: they are coming for your guns.
In 1989, California became “the first state to ban assault weapons,” and since that time, it has enacted a steady stream of gun controls, only to see violent crime rise and high-profile shootings–including terror attacks–betray the lie that gun control saves lives.
With incessant calls to ban “assault weapons” arising from the Democrat Party — calls that sometimes hit a fever pitch when you add in the voices of Democratic surrogates in the media and gun control groups — it seems to be a good time to ask a key question: What is an “assault weapon?”
A NBC News/WSJ poll shows that distrust of government-sponsored gun control has risen 15 percent among registered voters since 1995.
During the June 26 broadcast of Meet the Press, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said the U.S. needs to put stricter limits on the capacity of “ammunition clips.”
Another holiday brought another slaughter of innocents in heavily gun-controlled Chicago. Fifty-six people were shot during Father’s Day weekend, and 13 of those shooting victims died.
During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama stated that after the Orlando terrorist attack committed by “an angry and disturbed individual who took in extremist information and propaganda over the internet, and became radicalized” “Being tough on terrorism…means making it harder
Vice President Joe Biden called Friday for a ban on “civilian ownership” of “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.
Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox reacted to the Orlando terror attack this week, saying in an interview that “background checks are not enough” and expressing hope that Congress will ban “assault weapons.”
During a private meeting on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi rejected the “assault weapons” ban being pushed my Democrat colleagues and Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson.
Amid the feverish, knee-jerk push to ban AR-15s as a way of ending mass shootings, The Washington Post points out that most mass shooters use handguns, not AR-15s.
On June 15, Senate Democrats launched a filibuster for background checks on private gun sales less than a month after Omar Mateen passed a background check to buy his guns at a retail store.
When confronted by Second Amendment supporters on Twitter, Gretchen Carlson doubled down on her pro-ban stance, sometimes conflating an AR-15 with the 30-round magazines that can be used in such a firearm.
Fox News’ anchor Gretchen Carlson called for a ban on AR-15s.
During a June 13 speech presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump warned that Hillary Clinton’s solution to terrorism to disarm “law-abiding Americans.”
President Obama spoke to reporters Monday about the terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and said Omar Mateen had a “Glock which had a lot of clips in it.”
During a June 13 interview on CNN, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) struggled to explain how more gun laws could stop terrorists.
On June 13–the day after Omar Mateen allegedly killed 50 people and wounded 53 more in Orlando–Orange County Sheriff Jerry L. Demings expressed his desire for more restrictions on “assault weapons.”
During a June 13 interview on CNN, Hillary Clinton said the U.S. needs to increase its outreach to Muslims, while simultaneously pursuing a ban on “assault weapons” and .50 caliber rifles.
The cover of Monday’s New York Daily News makes no mention of Islam, Islamists, or radical Islamic terror. Rather, it blames the NRA for the terror attack in which 50 were killed and 53 wounded in Orlando.
On June 7, a marijuana dispensary owner shot and critically injured two would-be robbers, one of whom was armed.
During the month of May, gun-controlled Chicago witnessed “nearly 400” shot and 66 persons killed.
Chicago has some of the most stringent gun controls of any city in the nation and also saw 40 of its residents shot–four of them fatally–by Sunday morning of Memorial Weekend 2016.
Military historian Martin KA Morgan suggests “assault weapons” are in high demand in the second decade of the 21st century largely because of Bill Clinton’s efforts to ban them in the last decade.
During the May 21 “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live, hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost mocked Donald Trump for claiming Hillary Clinton wants to ‘abolish the Second Amendment.’
Hillary Clinton supports Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s push for background checks for ammunition purchasers, according to former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
President Barack Obama has drawn criticism from police organizations for his support of anti-police protest organizations such as Black Lives Matter, but today he hosted a ceremony at the White House to honor police and law enforcement officials for their heroic efforts.
On May 10 FactCheck.org examined Hillary Clinton’s gun control aspirations and suggested her praise for Australia’s gun confiscation scheme does not necessarily make her pro-confiscation.
