During the June 19 airing of MSNBC’s The ED Show, Democrat strategist Bob Shrum said the attack on innocents at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church could have been worse if church-goers had been armed for self-defense.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA-4th Dist.) is introducing legislation to bar law-abiding citizens with concealed permits from carrying guns in the unsecured portions of airports.
On June 16 the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals begins hearing an appeal of their own decision against the “good cause” requirement in California’s concealed carry process.
On Sunday, Colt Defense LLC announced it is filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection and looking to sell operations, or portions of operations, in the U.S. and Canada to pay off $355 million in debts.
On June 8, a father was putting gasoline in his car with his daughter beside him when a man allegedly tried to rob them. The father responded by drawing his gun and shooting him.
With campus carry having passed the Texas legislature and now awaiting Governor Greg Abbott’s (R) signature, various university student body presidents are asking Abbott not to sign the bill that would allow law-abiding students to be armed for self-defense.
On Monday, a man allegedly tried to carjack a car from Detroit woman — who turned out to be armed. Police arrived to find a blood trail near the scene.
On June 5, a man allegedly climbed into a woman’s car at an Exxon station, pulled a knife, and got shot.
On June 5 a man and woman walked out of Shells restaurant in Tampa, Florida, and were allegedly confronted by two teens–one of whom was armed–demanding the couple hand over money and cell phones. The man pulled his concealed carry handgun and shot the teen who was holding the gun.
On June 2 a Detroit woman emptied her pistol on would-be carjackers after she saw them coming at her with a gun. Afterward she said it’s time “to take back this city from the thugs.”
On June 2, three armed men allegedly targeted a business in which the clerk was armed as well. The clerk saw the three would-be robbers coming, had his gun at the ready, and shot the first of the suspects as soon as he entered the store.
On May 31, an armed citizen pulled his own gun and opened fire on an alleged attacker inside a Georgia liquor store, thereby ending a would-be mass shooting.
On Monday, the Maine House joined with the Senate and passed LD 652, legislation which abolishes the concealed carry permit requirement in the state.
During the past week. two Republican state senators in California voted to further limit the places in which concealed carry permit holders can carry a gun for self-defense.
On May 28, Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. denied the District of Columbia’s request for an administrative state in the ruling against the “good reason” provision in DC’s concealed carry permitting process.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times ran a column by Jennifer Carlson claiming that men carry guns because they are insecure over the size and sustainability of their paychecks.
Concealed carry permit applications are surging in states like North Carolina, as they have been surging nationally under Obama, “amid safety fears.”
With Campus Carry legislation coming before the Texas House this week, University of Texas Chancellor Bill McRaven submitted a letter to state representatives describing campus carry as “conduct” that could hurt UT by dissuading new professors from coming in, thereby making the university system less competitive.
A law allowing the concealed carry of handguns on college and university campuses in Kansas takes effect on July 1, 2017.
The Texas Senate gave final passage to House Bill 910, the bill that would allow concealed carry license holders to openly carry a handgun. The bill was passed out of the Senate during a late night Memorial Day weekend session with a vote of 20-11. Senator Joan Huffman (R-Houston) was the lone Republican voting against the bill.
When Hashim Fannin pulled into an Atlanta, Georgia Family Dollar an alleged carjacker climbed into his passenger seat and said, “You know what this is?” Fannin responded by pulling his gun, ordering the man out of the car and onto the ground, then asking, “So you woke up stupid this morning?”
In July, Breitbart News reported that federal Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr., ruled that DC’s ban on carrying firearms in public for self-defense was unconstitutional. Scullin then gave the city a 90-day stay in which to figure out how to respond to the ruling.
On May 15, concealed carry permit holder Henry Oppenheim saw his female neighbor being beaten and intervened by drawing his gun and holding the attacker at bay until police arrived.
On May 14, a three-judge panel of the New Jersey Appellate Division of Superior Court ruled that police may not add to or otherwise change the concealed carry permit application questions, as handed down by the state.
On May 15, an alleged burglar was shot after hitting a 72-year-old man over the head with a gasoline can.
California state senator Lois Wolk’s (D-Davis) push to outlaw concealed carry on college campuses received a boost when Wolk made an exemption for retired police officers, thereby gaining the support of the California Police Chiefs Association and the Peace Officers Research Association of California.
The Florida State Attorney’s Office has released its findings on a January 5 shooting in which Waffle House patron Jehrardd Williams shot and killed a man who allegedly attacked him in the restaurant.
Ohio representative Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) has introduced legislation–House Bill 48–to do away with gun-free “victim zones” in churches and government buildings and on college campuses.
On Sunday, Michigan state senator Virgil Smith (D-Detroit) was taken into custody for allegedly firing a shotgun at his girlfriend’s car following an argument earlier that morning.
On Sunday morning Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree (D) suggested Mississippi’s allowance of open carry without a permit contributed to the deaths of Officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate on May 10.
On May 5, two firefighters with concealed carry permits stopped a man allegedly attempting to shoot kids and firemen at the fire station.
On Saturday, an unnamed concealed carry permit holder witnessed an alleged carjacking and shot and killed the suspect to the save a woman whom the suspect had pulled from the car.
On April 30, an alleged robber walked up behind a manager at a Houston, Texas, check cashing store, put a gun to his head, and got shot twice in the chest. He died from his wounds.
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On April 25, Pocatello, Idaho’s E4 Tactical Solutions provided “a free, enhanced concealed-carry class for military personnel and their families.” The motivation was an ISIS hit list containing “100 military personnel and their families,” urging ISIS sympathizers to kill those named therein.
In the middle of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s unsuccessful push to get Kroger to ban guns, they discovered something they can cheer about — Safeway grocers does prohibit law-abiding citizens from carrying guns in their stores.
On April 23, the South Carolina House took up a concealed carry reform bill containing an amendment rescinding the need for a concealed carry permit. The measure passed 90 to 18.
On April 26, The Wall Street Journal claimed California is one of a handful of states that will be ground zero for the battle between gun control and gun rights in the foreseeable future.
On April 22 a customer at a Kroger in Little Rock, Arkansas, saw an elderly man surrounded by “seven people,” so he drew his gun and intervened to protect the gentleman.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America launches “World’s Longest Receipt” campaign to teach Kroger a lesson for not banning guns.
