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Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he hoped at least half of his Republican colleagues in the Senate would vote for the gun package he was currently negotiating.

Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY) is dropping his bid for reelection after backlash over his admission that he would support passage of an “assault weapons” ban.

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich spoke at a ‘Stand with Uvalde’ rally Saturday, referenced AR-15s and said, “I shouldn’t be able to buy one, you shouldn’t be able to buy one.”

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is demanding that “assault weapons loaded with high capacity magazines” be banned. 

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that if gun reform measures were not passed, “the consequences of failure for our entire democracy are more significant than ever.”

If a target is “soft,” that means it’s vulnerable. So let’s protect targets by hardening them, starting with schools.

The gun prohibition lobby and their friends on Capitol Hill have resorted to the same rhetoric and brought out the same agenda they’ve been promoting for a long time.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that regulations on firearms such as assault weapons bans and other kinds of regulations have been shown by research to have an “underwhelming” effectiveness “in actually preventing violence and

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that you “could take away a lot of different kinds of guns,” but it wouldn’t have made any difference in the school shooting in Uvalde, TX because the shooter was in the room for 40 minutes and “It wouldn’t have mattered what kind of gun he had, any kind of gun could do any amount of damage in that time.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said he believed that it “would help a little” if we got “rid of the semi-automatic rifles,” but also mocked President Joe Biden’s speech calling for restrictions on certain kinds of guns as Biden saying, “from now on, if you get caught with the wrong kind of gun killing people, you are in big trouble.”

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” White House senior adviser and Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu argued on gun control there “was no middle ground between life and death when somebody is standing over a kid with an AK-47, there is no middle ground.”

Robert J. O’Neill, the SEAL Team Six member who shot and killed Osama bin Laden, tweeted on June 2, 2022, that “shall not be infringed” should have limits.

Speaking to the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) expressed frustration with commentary by some House members regarding the Uvalde school shooting last week at Robb Elementary. Roy urged colleagues to avoid rushes to judgement.

Radical, demented Joe Biden exploited dead children to distract from the “multiple crises” deliberately created by this White House.

President Joe Biden used a prime time address Thursday to call for stronger gun control laws. He could demonstrate his own commitment by making sure existing laws are enforced — including against his son, Hunter Biden, for apparent violations.

Friday on Newsmax TV’s “National Report,” Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) reacted to President Joe Biden’s call for gun control during a prime-time address from the White House, which included a push to ban “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines.

Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney explains the surprisingly uplifting jobs report and why President Biden doesn’t deserve credit for it.

Republican J.D. Vance, who is running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, responded by President Biden’s Thursday night gun control push by noting that none of the proposals would reduce gun violence in the U.S.

On July 9, 1985, during debate over the Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA), Senate Judiciary Committee member Joe Biden (D-DE) sided with the NRA and argued that criminals can get guns “with or without gun control.” 

On Thursday’s “Mark Levin Show,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that President Joe Biden has gone from arguing gun control is ineffective to embracing gun policies akin to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former senatorial and

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reacted to President Joe Biden accusing Republicans of blocking debate on gun legislation by pointing to legislation he proposed to increase school security and help keep firearms

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that his Republican colleagues in the House are “coming down on the side of” the killers of our kids by not supporting the Democrats’ gun reform legislation.

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway said Thursday on “Jesse Watters Primetime” that President Joe Biden‘s speech on gun reform legislation was “an impeachable offense.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Prime,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) argued that “when there are more police in schools, because of the explicit and implicit racism that still exists within law enforcement that we don’t deal with consistently, black and

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Stinchfield Report,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) responded to President Joe Biden claiming that gun manufacturers have liability immunity that is unique to them by pointing out that tech platforms have strong liability protections under Section

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Stinchfield Report,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) argued that the focus for legislation to prevent school shootings should be on better funding for mental health and hardening schools the same way banks are hardened and in

CLAIM: During his Thursday night primetime speech President Biden claimed that we  “should expand background checks” and talked of how such checks would keep guns out of the wrong hands.  

CNN political commentator Van Jones said Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Joe Biden did a “masterful” job during his address to the nation calling for gun reforms after the recent mass shootings.

The president spoke about his proposals during a prime-time address from the White House, surrounded by candles representing the victims of mass shootings. 

President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time address on gun control on Thursday from the White House in his latest effort to push the issue.

Progressive Democrat Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said during a House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Democrats would go to extraordinary lengths to pass major gun control.

Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believes Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is the “antithesis of being a Christian” because of his inaction after mass shootings in their state.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) joined with state assembly leaders to announce ten new gun control bills, including a new minimum age and licensing requirement for the purchase of a “semiautomatic rifle.”

During a campaign event on May 21, 2022, Texas Democrat gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke expressed his belief that Americans who own AR-15s should not be able to keep them.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Prime,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) stated that “we saw the seismic increase of carnage across America using automatic weapons” after the Assault Weapons Ban Act expired in 2004 and she thinks that there is

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Tuesday on “MSNBC Reports” that after last week’s deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, “gun violence protection is going to be on the ballot” in the upcoming midterm elections.