Benton County, Minnesota, Sheriff Troy Heck posted a letter on Facebook over the weekend expressing his conviction that violent criminals will ignore new gun controls in much the same way as they ignore the old ones.
On Tuesday President Joe Biden continued his push for universal background checks but did not mention that such checks require a gun registry in order to be viable.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) responded to President Biden’s Tuesday executive order on background checks by noting the president is pushing gun controls that have already failed.
During a Tuesday gun control announcement, President Joe Biden asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to act where Congress has not and take the U.S. “as close as possible” to universal background checks.
President Biden plans to use an executive order Tuesday to move the country closer to universal background checks and other controls that Congress has refused to pass.
Reuters noted Friday that Germany’s stringent gun control failed to prevent the attack which resulted in the deaths of six innocents and the alleged shooter the previous day.
The gunman who opened fire inside a gay nightclub, Club Q, in Colorado Springs saturday night was disarmed by patrons inside the establishment.
Senate candidate John Fetterman (D-PA) wants to end the filibuster so Democrats can push through a gun ban for “assault weapons.”
An August 17 Tampa Bay Times editorial board op-ed points to mass shootings in which the attacker passed background checks as a way of arguing for background checks.
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.
March for Our Lives formed in the wake of the February 14, 2018, Parkland High School shooting and they are now pushing gun control that would not have prevented that shooting from taking place.
President Biden announced Thursday the attacker that shot NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora used a Glock handgun, and he described the handgun as a “weapon of war.”
Four people were killed and others, including a police officer, were wounded during a shooting spree in Colorado late Monday afternoon.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shut down a Democrat gun control push Thursday, saying it would not prevent shootings but would hamper the law-abiding in exercising Second Amendment rights.
As of October 19, 2021, Portland, Oregon, has surpassed the record number of homicides for a given year with 67 homicides year-to-date.
A White House Fact Sheet previewing President Biden’s Wednesday afternoon speech suggests he push for Congress to pass universal background checks and other gun controls which are already failing in Los Angeles and New York.
Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo reacted to Sunday’s targeted attack on rapper ABMG Spitta’s album release party by calling for universal background checks.
The 57-year-old Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) maintenance worker who shot and killed 8 innocents on Wednesday used handguns that were acquired “legally” and “registered” in compliance with California law.
Fourteen people were shot, two fatally, at a house party in Fairfield Township, New Jersey, Saturday night.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is still seeking “compromise language” for Democrat gun control, the Washington Post reported.
Colorado Democrats are pushing a number of gun controls in response to last month’s Boulder shooting, including the creation an Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP).
During his April 28, 2021, speech to Congress, President Biden called for a ban on “high-capacity magazines that hold 100 rounds.”
Democrats in the Ohio House are pushing a red flag law and universal background checks, among other gun controls.
One innocent was killed when 45-year-old Za Uk Lian allegedly opened fire in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday morning.
During a March 28, 2021, interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) admitted that Democrats probably cannot round up 60 votes for the universal background check legislation contained in H.R. 8.
During the March 28, 2021, airing of NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Chris Murphy (D) outlined additional gun control that could be considered once universal background checks are place.
Colorado is one of the few states in the Union that has the Democrats’ highly desired universal background check gun controls.
New York Magazine reacted to the Tuesday shootings in Atlanta by wondering aloud if the heinous acts would put gun control over the top.
A hearing on Democrat control is scheduled in the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, March 23, 2021, at 10 a.m.
The NRA is warning that “Senate Insiders” believe the Democrat gun control that passed the House March 12, 2021, “will likely get” a hearing in the Senate next week.
A significant gun control measure mandating universal background checks passed the Democrat-controlled House Thursday with the help of eight Republicans.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed universal background check gun control Thursday, criminalizing private gun sales conducted apart from an FBI background check.
While speaking about House Democrats’ gun control push on Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) made clear “the government is never going to know what weapons I own.”
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) claimed on Wednesday that 90 percent of Americans support the universal background check gun control he introduced last week.
The background check gun controls which were introduced in the House last week bring back Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) 2013 gun control push and make his support for the current legislation crucial to Democrat success.
House Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) introduced gun control legislation this week and made clear that the current push is just the “first step.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced universal background check legislation to expand retail point-of-sale background checks to private sales as well.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch used a February 20, 2021, editorial to suggest President Joe Biden could make the left’s gun control dreams come true.
In coming weeks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reportedly plans to put forward the universal background check legislation President Biden wants to sign.
California has many of the most prominent aspects of President Joe Biden’s (D) gun control plan but is, nonetheless, plagued by a steady flow of mass shootings.
