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In a column intended to suggest the National Rifle Association (NRA) is exaggerating Hillary Clinton’s gun control positions, The Washington Post (WaPo), instead, succeeded in admitting that Clinton wants all the gun controls about which the NRA has warned.

The Oregon reverend — who spent $3,000 in church funds to win an AR-15 so he could destroy it — ended up giving the gun to a parishioner “for safe keeping” and may now face charges for failure to perform a background check.

A listing of the most difficult states for law-abiding citizens to acquire firearms shows California as the most difficult of all. On July 1, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation expanding universal background checks.

Three persons were killed and a fourth was wounded after a man with gun walked into a party at a residence north of Seattle and opened fire.

Just over a year after instituting universal background checks, Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) is pushing a ban on the purchases of “high capacity” magazines.

Maine Ethics Commission filings show Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety has given more than $3.5 million to the state’s gun control lobby since 2015.

The June 1 murder -suicide on the gun-free UCLA campus was yet another proof that universal background checks do not stop a determined attacker.

During his May 20 speech to the NRA Leadership Forum in Louisville, Kentucky, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continued to contrast his positions on guns with Hillary Clinton’s positions. In so doing, he stressed his pro-gun agenda while continuing to outline aspects of Clinton’s plan to “abolish the Second Amendment.”

Hillary Clinton supports Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s push for background checks for ammunition purchasers, according to former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced gun control legislation Monday after the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence accused him of failing to be the gun control advocate he promised to be.

Micheal Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety is funding a push to bring failed California gun controls to Maine.

On May 12, Vermont lawmakers rejected initiatives designed to put universal background checks in place for law-abiding citizens in the state.

On May 9 — less than two years since universal background checks were hoisted onto the backs of law-abiding citizens in Washington state — Gabby Giffords was in the state campaigning for special protective orders that will allow firearm confiscation.

The Minnesota House has rejected an amendment that would have required universal background checks for almost anyone carrying or possessing a gun.

A “high capacity” magazine ban and ammunition background checks are suddenly in jeopardy due to infighting between California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D) and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom (D).

Connecticut 5th District candidate Bill Stevens opposes universal background checks for gun sales unless similar checks are put in place for speech and other rights enumerated in constitutional amendments.

A major tenet for Democrats at the state and federal level is gun control, and one would not be wrong for observing that the kind of gun control pushed is often similar — if not identical — to past or existing gun controls that have failed to deliver the reduction in death and violence promised.

On March 27, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed listing numerous incidents of gang violence and arguing that universal background checks are part of the solution to such violence.

Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) is renewing his efforts for federal passage of the same universal background checks that failed to stop determined attackers in California, Colorado, Washington, and Paris.

California Assemblyman Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) is pushing legislation to require all licensed gun dealers to video the sale of every firearm.

Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords met with Oregon “law enforcement leaders” at the YWCA in Portland on Friday to contend that the universal background checks instituted last year and the closure of the “gun show loophole” in 2000 are not enough; more gun control for Oregon is needed now.

Maine election officials have confirmed a sufficient number of signatures to get a California-style gun control referendum on the ballot this November.

Gun control proponent Michael Bloomberg will meet with pollster Frank Luntz this week to discuss a possible White House run.

On January 14, Los Angeles Times reporter columnist George Skelton slammed President Obama for the lack of any mention of gun control in the State of the Union address (SOTU).

On January 12, Hillary Clinton released an ad in which she outlined President Obama’s gun control aspirations and suggested a time for choosing: either stand with Obama or stand with the gun lobby.

California gun controllers reacted to President Obama’s executive gun control by claiming the new regulations and expanded laws will help California fight crime.

Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed are currently selling their “Ghost Gunner” CNC machine for $1,500.00. It forges a path for Americans to make homemade AR-15 rifles in their garages, basements, or anywhere else they wish to set up the compact CNC machine.

On December 13, protesters with AR-15s slung over their shoulders crashed a Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America rally in Missoula, Montana.

On November 3, voters in Oregon’s Coos County voted to separate themselves from de jure compliance with state and federal gun control laws by giving their sheriff the job of deciding which laws are constitutional–and therefore deserving of compliance–and which are not.

In the early morning hours of October 31 the tranquility of downtown Colorado Springs was interrupted by multiple shootings in which three innocents were killed before Colorado Springs Police were able to kill the gunman in a shootout.

In the wake of the Lafayette theater attack, Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is calling for Congress to expand background checks to every sale so that all gun purchasers must pass the same check alleged gunman John Russell Houser passed for his handgun.

On May 4, the Oregon House approved universal background check bill SB 941, thereby sending the measure to Governor Kate Brown’s (D) desk for a signature.

On Monday, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced it was teaming up with the American Bar Association and seven other health organizations to form a “coalition” treating guns as a public health threat, focusing on ammunition magazine capacity.

On February 16, Politifact revisited Lori Haas’s claim that states with expanded background checks see a “49 percent” reduction in female homicides and found it to be only “half true.”

On February 13, Prosecutors Against Gun Violence (PAGV) released a letter stating their support for the implementation of “universal background checks” for firearm sales throughout the country.

As Oregon’s senate prepares to convene February 2 for a “five-month legislative session,” returning senators who tried but failed at gun control in previous years hope having more Democrats in 2015 means gun control will finally succeed.