Following Alison Parker’s August 26 shooting death at the hands of former station employee Vester Lee Flanagan, her father, Andy Parker, vowed to “shame politicians” into supporting more gun control.
On August 20, the Essex News Daily ran a story in which Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords claimed they “actually do not support ‘gun control’ in the traditional sense of the phrase,” but “gun responsibility.”
On August 20, Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt described the Democratic Party on the federal level as “increasingly” tyrannical and focused on passing laws to take guns away from law-abiding Americans.
On July 24, Gabby Giffords’s husband Mark Kelly was questioned about the Lafayette theater attack, and after admitting all the facts were not yet known, he pushed for background checks and other gun controls.
On July 22, Gabby Giffords suggested there is yet another gun control loophole, and it is found in the lack of laws governing gun possession for dating relationships. This new loophole comes even as Everytown for Gun Safety fights the
On July 13, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America launched a campaign urging retailers to reject gun purchasers during the buying process in the same way that Mark Kelly was rejected when trying to a buy an AR-15 from Tucson’s Diamondback Police Supply.
On July 8, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th) stood with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and families of Charleston victims and pushed for the very background checks alleged gunman Dylann Roof passed.
It is a fact that California’s expanded background checks for gun sales did not prevent illegal alien Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez from allegedly shooting Kathryn Steinle on July 3.
Last week a New Jersey appellate court upheld the ruling that a southern New Jersey man cannot own guns because his wife is a felon “who’s been accused of domestic violence.”
On June 20, The Fresno Bee editorial board ran an editorial showing that gun control is not working, yet calling for more gun control to prevent an attack like the heinous one in Charleston, South Carolina, from ever happening again.
On June 16, North Carolina’s GOP-controlled house sided with Gabby Giffords and voted 78-37 to keep handgun purchasing restrictions in place for law-abiding North Carolinians.
On June 13 the US Navy will christen a combat ship after gun control proponent and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
Just days after Carol Bowne was stabbed to death while waiting for state permission to buy a gun in New Jersey, Gabby Giffords’s gun control group is lobbying to keep a permit-to-purchase law on the books in North Carolina.
On June 3, Breitbart News reported that GOP Representatives were adding riders to a Department of Jutice appropriations bill to block—and in some cases roll back—DOJ efforts to implement backdoor gun control.
With the Connecticut General Assembly scheduled to adjourn at midnight Wednesday, Gabby Giffords’ gun confiscation push is in danger of not even getting discussion, much less a vote.
On May 23, gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly will be giving the convocation address at Cornell University as part of the school’s 147th graduation.
When the Oregon Senate passed expanded background checks on April 14, it marked a change from 2013 and 2014–when the same type of legislation was taken up but defeated without even making it to the floor for a vote.
Just two days after Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) signed expanded background checks into law via Senate Bill 941, Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly are pressing Democrats in Oregon’s legislators to go even further–to pass more gun control while they have the chance.
Gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly will speak on Class Day at Harvard Law School on May 27, despite their string of epic defeats.
On May 11, Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) signed Senate Bill 941, making the background check Aurora theater gunman James Holmes passed the law of the land in Oregon.
On May 7, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords briefly spoke to Delaware state senators to push gun control for “mothers” and “families” via Senate Bill 83.
On Wednesday, CNN reported that the guns Garland attackers Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi used were “bought legally,” which means they were acquired through background checks.
On May 5 CNN reported that the two gunmen who attacked Garland’s Curtis Culwell Center acquired their guns “legally.”
On Monday, Gabby Giffords cheered Oregon’s house for supporting SB 941 — a bill to require background checks for all gun sales, public or private. She did not mention that her attacker, Jared Loughner, passed a background check to acquire the gun he then used to attack her in 2011.
On Tuesday, Democrats in Oregon’s Senate ignored sheriffs and passed SB 941 by a vote of 17-13. This bill applies background checks to all gun sales in the state, retail and private, and provides a mechanism by which the guns of certain persons can be confiscated.
On April 12, Gabby Giffords’s protégé and gun control supporter Ron Barber announced that he is not going to challenge pro-gun Representative Martha McSally (R-AZ-2) for her seat in 2016.
On April 6, Fox News ran a column which contained comments from Moms Demand Actions’ Shannon Watts praising Washington state’s institution for the very kind of background check Jared Loughner passed to get the firearm he used to attack Gabby Giffords, then saying it’s only “gunsense” that all other gun purchasers should have to go through the same background check.
While Oregon Democrats stood with Gabby Giffords and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to push expanded background checks on April 1, Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer stood for the law-abiding citizens whom the checks will target by describing
In their ceaseless search for new reasons to push gun control, Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–is now pushing gun control as a way to fight terrorism.
On March 27 Gabby Giffords backed Oregon Democrats in pushing all future Oregon gun purchasers to pass the same background check Jared Loughner passed to acquire the firearm with which he attacked Giffords and eighteen others in Tucson.
On March 18, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords met with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) to discuss new firearm confiscation laws for the state.
On March 17, Gabby Giffords will be at the Connecticut state Capitol with Governor Dannel Malloy (D) to push for the passage of a gun laws that were actually “enacted 15 years ago.” The law being pushed by Giffords would
In the upcoming biography, “Michelle Obama: A Life,” author Peter Slevin claims the West Wing is blocking release of a video Michelle Obama recorded of herself commenting on the January 8, 2011, shooting of Gabby Giffords.
On Sunday, CBS News Sunday Morning aired video of gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly shooting handguns and rifles, then panned to video of the couple sitting in their Tucson, Arizona, home where Giffords talked about the possibility of running for office again.
One day after the AR-15 ammo ban was delayed, White House spokesman Josh Earnest made clear that President Obama is still committed to gun control and is still pursing avenues for more gun control laws.
As Democrats continue to circle the wagons to preserve gun-free zones, Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th Dist.) is suggesting gun owners support protecting children with background checks, which did not stop Adam Lanza from committing his heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, was turned away twice on gun purchases in 2013 because of certain requirements and stipulations of the current background check system.
On March 6, The Hill reported on a tweet the NRA sent out, claiming the tweet “mocks Gabby Giffords” with the facts.
Giffords is their human shield — the gun control representative who could do and say what she wanted without facing any real pressure to prove her claims were true.
On March 5, brothers Carlton Hipps and Ramone Williams allegedly shot and killed Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III.
