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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) pushed universal background checks even after they failed to prevent the Henry Pratt Company shooting in Illinois.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) signed universal background checks into law on Friday.

A red flag law and universal background checks failed to stop the Aurora, Illinois, shooting that killed five people Friday.

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

House Democrats want a vote on gun control that would not have stopped the Parkland high school shooting, the 2017 Las Vegas attack, or the 2016 Orlando Pulse shooting.

Gabby Giffords’ pro-gun control husband, Mark Kelly, announced he will seek to run against Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) in 2020.

The NRA-ILA reports there will be a secret gun control push this Tuesday in Nevada in a special joint judiciary hearing.

House Democrats plan to move legislation criminalizing private gun sales out of committee and get it to the floor for a vote this week.

During Judiciary Committee hearings for the universal background checks Gabby Giffords’ associate Robyn Thomas made clear the expanded checks are only the “first step.”

Shooting survivor and U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) says the Democrats refused his request to testify against the gun control currently being pushed in the House.

During a Wednesday hearing on the Democrats’ universal background check bill Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) pointed out that bill targets law-abiding citizens.

Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris used her CNN town hall on Monday to contend it is a “false choice” to say the Second Amendment protects “assault weapons” that “can kill babies.”

As part of her larger “assault weapons” ban, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) seeks to criminalize private “assault weapon” sales.

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.

The gun control currently being pushed by House Democrats is unenforceable without a national firearm registry.

As House Democrats embark on an effort to expand background checks Gabby Giffords is making clear that it is only the “first step” in a larger push for gun control.

California Democrats reintroduced legislation on the day of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) inauguration in hopes of achieving a one-gun-a-month purchase limit for Californians.

Even though California already has every gun control imaginable, the state witnessed an 18 percent rise in firearm homicides from 2014 to 2016.

House Democrats plan to introduce legislation criminalizing private gun sales once the new Congress is in session.

The 116th Congress will convene on Jan 3rd, bringing with it a radical shift leftward in the U.S. House of Representatives with the Democrat Party holding the majority.

A UC Davis study examining the first ten years after California adopted universal background checks shows that those checks did not reduce homicides.

Incoming House Democrats are promising to push the same gun control that failed to stop the Thousand Oaks, California, massacre.

Politifact released analysis that whitewashed Sen. Jon Tester’s gun control plan, especially his support of universal background checks.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) wants to implement gun controls that are already in place and are almost always the means by which mass public attackers get their guns.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) pushed for a ban on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles during Tuesday’s debate against Republican challenger Rick Scott.

The New Mexico gubernatorial candidate seeking a ban on “high magazine cartridges” is now campaigning on firearm confiscation orders and universal background checks.

Sixteen people were shot over a seven hour time period Saturday night to Sunday morning in gun-controlled New York City.

The state of Florida reportedly halted background checks on concealed carry permit applicants for over a year because they had trouble logging in.

While speaking to the Santa Fe County Federation of Democratic Women Gubernatorial Forum this month, New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) called for a ban on “high magazine cartridges.”

At some point we have to come to terms with the fact that we cannot legislate away evil, we can only be prepared to meet it head on and stop it. Good guys with guns are a necessary part of stopping evil in its tracks.

If the heinous attack on Santa Fe High School teaches us anything it is that the left’s favorite gun controls are impotent to stop school shooters.

California has an “assault weapons” ban and firearm confiscation orders but neither control prevented the Tuesday attack at YouTube’s San Bruno headquarters. 

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the right to bear arms has run its course, and now’s the time to “repeal the Second Amendment.”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) blasted Republicans on the days of the anti-gun student walk-out by stressing, “We don’t work for the merchants of death.” 

Three innocents were shot and killed at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, CA, on Friday despite California’s stringent gun controls.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy says the NRA is a “terrorist organization” because they oppose instituting more of the same gun controls that failed before the world’s eyes in Florida on February 14.