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November 2024 was the 64th consecutive month with more than one million background checks conducted for gun sales at retail. 

On November 12, 2024, a lawsuit was filed challenging the 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases which Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law in August.

October 2024 was the 63rd consecutive month of over one million National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks for gun sales at retail.

July 2024 was the 60th consecutive month of over one million background checks for gun sales and/or firearm transfers. 

A CNN report drawn from a recent survey of gun owners shows that more Americans are armed for self-defense than ever before.

Republican VP candidate JD Vance said his mamaw kept 19 loaded handguns hidden throughout her house so one was “always within arm’s length.”

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R) defended private ownership of AR-15 rifles at the Republican National Convention Tuesday and warned that allowing Democrats to restrict them equates to “letting the fox into the henhouse.”

Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed legislation to prohibit credit card companies from tracking firearm and firearm-related purchases in Louisiana. 

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed legislation Tuesday that ends state business with financial companies that discriminate against firearm manufacturers and others in the gun industry.

April 2024 marked the fifty-seventh consecutive month of more than one million NICS checks for gun sales or transfers.

A report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) indicates Americans own over 700 million ammunition magazines with a greater than ten-round capacity.

March 2024 ended as the fifty-sixth consecutive month of more than one million background checks for firearm sales/transfers.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is introducing legislation to protect FFLs from the ATF’s weaponized “zero tolerance” policy.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s SHOT Show 2024 wrapped up Friday, ending a week of exciting new product launches which included numerous new pistols, rifles, and shotguns, as well as optics and firearm accessories.

Firearm production in the United States was 28 percent higher during Biden’s first year in office than it was during Trump’s last.

A press release from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) shows there were an estimated 473.2 million firearms in U.S. civilian hands by the end of 2021.

Hundreds of thousands of Indiana gun buyers’ private information–include gun purchase records–is at risk of being disclosed. 

A three-judge panel for the Third Circuit dismissed a lawsuit against New Jersey’s gun liability law Thursday.

National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers released by the FBI at the end of July show the U.S. has enjoyed four years of one million-plus gun sales a month.

A report from SafeHome.org indicates there were 17.4 million guns sold in the U.S. during 2022, and approximately 1.4 million have been sold each month in 2023.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Friday that prohibits credit card companies from tracking gun sales in Florida.

Gun control Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted Sunday that AR-15 rifles are not necessary for hunting or self-defense and suggested mass shooters would be those “most affected” by an “assault weapons” ban.

A National Shooting Sports Foundation report on April background checks shows gun sales surged in states where “radical measures” against Second Amendment rights have been adopted or are about to take effect.

Unsuccessful Senate, presidential, and gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke called for more gun control in response to the news that a Mexican national, who had been deported four times, had shot and killed five Honduran neighbors in Cleveland, Texas.

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) announced legislation Tuesday to recognize the AR-15 rifle as the “National Gun of America.”

Republican Kari Lake responded to Joe Biden’s push to ban “assault weapons” by tweeting, “I’m not handing over my AR-15. Not gonna happen.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) secured a preliminary injunction Tuesday against New Jersey’s A1765, which was intended to create avenues by which public nuisance laws could be used to sue gun manufacturers.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen talked to Breitbart News at SHOT Show 2023 about his state’s posture against “woke banks” which discriminate against the gun industry yet want to be part of state business. 

Rep. Richard Hudson (R) introduced national reciprocity for concealed carry in the 118th Congress on Monday night. 

Illinois Democrats are set to begin committee hearings on a piece of legislation that would require all “assault weapons” to be registered with the state and mandate that owners of the guns pay a fee. 

Numbers released Monday show that the FBI ran 192,749 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks on Black Friday 2022.

A poll conducted by Tufts University School of Medicine found approximately 1/3 of gun owners support an “assault weapons” ban.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) points to FBI background check figures to show over one million guns have been sold in America every month for the past 38 months. 

Although the left has spent decades telling Americans things like “an AR-15 is not for hunting,” a Winchester Ammunition survey reported by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) shows 60 percent of centerfire rifle hunters use AR/AK-platform rifles on their hunts.

Figures from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) indicate there are more AR/AK-style firearms in private possession “than Ford F-Series trucks on the road.”

The surge in gun ownership among black Americans that began in 2020 continues in earnest even now, according to a report from NBC News.