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Already, more background checks for firearm purchases have been conducted in 2016 than any year in history.

The line to get into Shooters gun store in Jacksonville, Florida, stretched around the corner as customers waited to get inside and buy the firearms and firearms accessories they wanted for themselves or planned to give as Christmas gifts.

Businessman Steve Wynn says Nevada’s gun control ballot initiative–Question 1–contains so many constraints that a soldier leaving for deployment would be in violation of the law were he to leave a gun behind with his fiancée.

Reality TV star and gun control proponent Kim Kardashian is reportedly making significant increases to her security detail after being robbed at gunpoint in Paris earlier this month.

During the October 4 Vice Presidential debate, Tim Kaine proclaimed himself a “strong Second Amendment supporter” then pushed more gun control for law-abiding citizens.

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine said that he and Hillary Clinton are committed to “background record checks” because such checks “make us safer.”

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) is sponsoring a presentation of the Guns in the Hands of Artists exhibition in Washington DC October 3-7.

The gunman who opened fire on random persons in Houston on September 26 passed a background check for the rifle and the handgun he used during the attack, reports say.

During the September 26 presidential debate Hillary Clinton said America has a “gun epidemic” and called for background checks to fix it.

On Friday, President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and other senior White House senior staff hosted participants and musicians of a concert series promoting gun control.

New York bombing suspect Ahmad Rahami passed a background check to acquire the handgun he used to shoot two police officers as they closed in on him September 19.

A television ad shows Senator Roy Blunt’s (R-MO) Democrat challenger, Jason Kander, assembling a gun while blindfolded, then calling for the same gun control that has already failed in California, Colorado, and Washington state.

In his latest book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, John R. Lott Jr. shows that states with “universal” background checks had more deaths and injuries since 2013.

The latest figures from the FBI show that August was the 16th consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales.

A PEW Research Center poll released on August 26 shows that 44 percent of all households now own a gun.

During his July 27 speech at the Democrat National Convention, gun control proponent Mark Kelly described the absence of new gun laws as one of America’s “greatest moral failures.”

New FBI figures show June 2016 is the 14th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales.

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.

A Quinnipiac University poll released June 30 shows a majority of voters believe all would-be gun buyers should be required to pass the same background check Orlando gunman Omar Mateen passed for his firearms.

Turkey, which recently suffered an attack in the Istanbul airport by a terrorist with an AK-47, has a complete prohibition on private ownership of semiautomatic rifles, firearm licensing requirements, and background checks.

The Vermont Mayor’s Coalition (VMC) is pushing for an expansion of background checks in their state less than three weeks after Omar Mateen killed 49 people in Orlando with guns he acquired via a background check.

FBI figures for National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks performed during Obama’s presidency average out to nearly 52,000 checks a day.

During a Friday interview on the TK Show podcast, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr cited the fact that his father was killed by Islamists in Lebanon as motivation for calling for more gun control on law-abiding Americans.

The police report on the investigation into the death of former The Voice contestant Christina Grimmie reveals that her killer passed a background check for his guns and did not pick them up until after completing a required five-day waiting period.

All the media hype and Democrat talking points aside, gun control is so unpopular that even Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted against Monday’s expanded background checks proposal.

Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Susan Collins (R.-Maine), worked Monday night with Democrats, such as Sen. Chris Murphy (D.- Conn.), to fashion a compromise to give Democrats the No-Fly-No-Buy legislation they have been demanding in their political response to the June 12 spree-shooting in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub.

During the June 20 airing of ABC’s The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and others discussed gun control in the post-Orlando world, ultimately lamenting an absence of background checks and waiting periods.

The Senate is expected to vote on a number of gun control measures Monday, all of which are in response to the June 12 Orlando terror attack.

Vice President Joe Biden called Friday for a ban on “civilian ownership” of “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.

In the wake of the Orlando terror attack–carried out by a gunman who ignored the Pulse Orlando’s gun-free designation–liberals are eagerly working to limit the Second Amendment rights of citizens throughout the country.

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.

On June 12 the ATF announced that both guns used in the Pulse Orlando attack were purchased legally by terror suspect Omar Mateen.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) shows two interesting facts about Omar Mateen, the man identified by law enforcement as the terrorist who shot up a gay nightclub in Orlando.

FBI figures show that May 2016 was the thirteenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales.

Gabby Giffords’s gun control group — Americans for Responsible Solutions — is spending seven figures to air an ad against pro-gun Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).

Voters in California will face a tidal wave of ballot measures in the November general election, on issues from the death penalty and condoms to marijuana and plastic bags.