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Vice President Mike Pence addressed the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum and invoked the words of Charlton Heston, saying, “From my cold, dead hands.”

The event is scheduled to take place at 11:10 p.m. EST. 

With April 20, 2019, marking the 20th anniversary of the Columbine attack. gun control advocates in that school are pledging the release of death photos to secure more gun laws. 

The new joint campus police chief for Mount Holyoke College and Smith College in Massachusetts has been placed on leave after his personal Twitter account sparked outrage among students. The police chief had allegedly “liked” tweets from the National Rifle Association and President Donald Trump, which caused students to question whether their campus community is “safe.”

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is pushing for a ban of “assault weapons” coupled with a buyback scheme. 

During an Orangeburg, South Carolina, townhall Democrat presidential hopeful Cory Booker told the audience “we have in America, in the aggregate, a mass shooting every day

Rashida Tlaib is reportedly showing no signs of backing down from her pledge to spearhead impeachment proceedings against, Trump, even after Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said gun makers oppose universal because checks because they want to sell guns “to someone on the terror watch-list.”

A Maine Republican sponsored legislation that would forbid teachers from endorsing political candidates and from using their classrooms as bully pulpits for ideological advocacy.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used the news of the terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday by attacking the National Rifle Association (NRA).

When Gov. Matt Bevin (R) signed legislation Monday to eliminate Kentucky’s concealed carry permit requirement he brought the number of constitutional carry states to 16.

On Monday Gov. Matt Bevin (R) signed legislation making the Second Amendment the only concealed carry permit needed in Kentucky.

Hawaii State Senate Democrats issued a resolution last week to “repeal or amend” the Second Amendment.

House Democrats are pushing $50 million in annual funding to add academic researchers to the current gun control push.

Tennessee Rep. State Sen. Brian Kelsey (R) is  cozying up with Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action., a gun control group.

Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) told Breitbart News Daily on Thursday about his legislation that would notify the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency about illegal immigrants who attempt to purchase a firearm.

House Democrats passed legislation that adds a ten-day extension to instant firearm background checks on Thursday, marking the second piece of gun control legislation they have passed in as many days.

Over 92 percent of NRA members oppose criminalizing private gun sales via universal background checks.

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) notes the House Democrats’ push for universal background checks is really an effort to create a gun registry.

On Tuesday the Los Angeles City Council voted to require companies to disclose NRA ties in order to be eligible for city contracts.

Connecticut State Rep. Jillian Gilchrest (D-13th) doubled down on her ammunition tax proposal by claiming the 50 percent tax is worth it if it can “prevent just one death.”

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is pledging a gun control vote next week by exclaiming that the “right to be safe” trumps the right to bear arms.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed Senate Bill 47 on Thursday to eliminate South Dakota’s requirement that residents possess a concealed carry permit in order to carry a handgun concealed.

The South Dakota House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday intended to abolish the need to acquire a concealed carry permit in order to carry for self-defense.

Singer Barbara Streisand reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a firearm case by asking “how many innocent people…have to die before” we get gun control?

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted review in the first Second Amendment case in almost a decade, a case supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), and perhaps signaling what to expect from the new membership of the Supreme Court.

The “Disarm America Movement” is gunning for your Second Amendment rights via increased gun control funding, anti-gun office holders, and aspiring political candidates bent on banning whole categories of firearms.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) is pushing a red flag law that would allow a judge to issue orders resulting in firearm confiscation.

With Washington state’s semiautomatic rifle purchase ban now in place at least six states restrict the Second Amendment rights of 18-20-year-olds.

Bloomberg.com is warning that a Democrat-led gun control push in the coming Congress could strengthen the NRA.

Rolling Stone commented on the NRA’s relative silence regarding the ban of bump stocks by suggesting the gun rights organization surrendered on the issue in order to shield semiautomatic rifles.

the NRA issued a statement expressing disappointment that citizens who legally purchased the accessories are not allowed to keep them.

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. claims the guilty plea of suspected Russian spy Maria Butina and the outcome of the 2018 congressional elections mark the “beginning of the end” for the “gun lobby” in the U.S.

Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty on Thursday to “conspiring to act as a foreign agent.”

On Monday, comedian Tom Arnold proclaimed his belief that there are only five black members of the NRA, not millions as some claim.

Axios ran a story on November 27 presenting the NRA as in decline and suffering financially because of it.