gun control

In keeping with the new state requirement that all would-be handgun buyers first acquire a purchase permit, the Delaware State Police have launched a portal for permit applications. 

At least nineteen people were shot, three of them fatally, over the course of the past weekend in Democrat-run Chicago. 

Broward Circuit Judge Frank Ledee ruled that Florida’s prohibition against 18–20-year-olds carrying concealed for self-defense is unconstitutional. 

Minnesota Democrats are planning town halls where they will try to push gun control over the finish line after Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) failure to rally sufficient legislative support for a special gun control session.

Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois (R) has filed a bill for the 2026 legislative session that would lower the Sunshine State’s minimum firearm purchase age from 21 to 18.

Bloodshed in Chicago continued as at least 12 people were shot, two of them fatally, in the Windy City during the weekend. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation Friday that will require all gun barrel sales to be conducted by licensed firearms dealers, mandating that said dealers conduct an “eligibility check” before selling a barrel.

Everytown for Gun Safety gave $200,000 to Jay Jones campaign, the same Jay Jones who allegedly used text messages to “[reveal] his desire” to shoot a GOP lawmaker.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer boasted of gun controls she’s signed while in office, omitting the fact that none of them prevented the Michigan church attack.

Police in Western Australia are conducting a crackdown on firearms owned by members of the “sovereign citizen” movement, an ideology that rejects the legitimacy of the government. A person believed to hold such views is wanted for the murder of two Victoria State police officers in August.

At least 30 people were shot, five of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. 

CZ-USA — Colt Canada’s parent company — told Breitbart News, “Colt Canada is not and will not be involved in the Canadian Government firearms buy-back program from Canadian citizens.”

Five Pennsylvania Republicans voted with House Democrats on Tuesday to help pass universal background check legislation.

Gov. Tim Walz (D) doubled down Thursday by again calling out Minnesota Republican lawmakers for refusing to take part in his push for a gun ban on the most popular semiautomatic rifles in America.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) claimed it is “not acceptable” that Republican members of the legislature refuse to “vote on gun bans.”

Democrats in the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee used the  heinous attack on police officers in York County to push through more gun control Monday.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, is warning that Florida’s newly adopted open carry law is a threat to the safety of all Floridians.

During Wednesday’s Gun Violence Prevention Working Group hearing, Minnesota state Sen. Ron Latz (DFL) argued against women being armed for self-defense unless and until they receive training on using guns.

A MN state senator is pushing a .50 caliber firearm ban in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting in which a .50 cal was not used. 

Gun control activist and former Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg said in a social media thread Saturday that he wants his death politicized “before my blood runs cold,” contrasting with slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who had told his wife he hoped to be remembered for his “courage and his faith.”

Mother Jones’ David Corn wrote a piece critical of pro-2A President Trump standing his ground following the Charlie Kirk assassination but opened the article with a not-so-veiled admission of the impotency of gun control. 

Texas congressional candidate Isaiah Martin (D) pledges to introduce gun control in Charlie Kirk’s name if elected to serve in Congress. 

On Friday’s broadcast of the early edition of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) stated that while we try to look for motives behind assassins and would-be assassins, many of them “have mental health issues, and so, sometimes,

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday tried to score a few political points from the assassination of Charlie Kirk, quoting “Chinese analysts” who said the killing proved “solutions to gun violence still remain out of reach.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) described the assassination of Charlie Kirk as “horrific,” then pushed for more gun control, according to The Hill. 

Parkland father and gun control activist Fred Guttenberg reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk with an X post in which he expressed his hope that Utah might now rethink decision to allow campus carry.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that he opposed armed guards in schools because he thinks it creates “irrational” fear in children and “you are still more likely in this country to be killed

Shortly after news broke about Charlie Kirk being shot, leftists flooded social media mocking him for opposing gun control.

Novelist and gun control advocate Stephen King pushed gun control Wednesday before facts were known in the shooting of Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk.

Gun rights groups are increasing their criticism of the Trump DOJ’s trans gun ban, with the Second Amendment Foundation’s Kosta Moros calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

The NRA, the National Association for Gun Rights, and other 2A groups have spent two days deriding and rejecting the trans gun ban being weighed by the DOJ.

The August 27 Minneapolis Catholic school shooting capped 24 hours of gun violence that had already left innocents dead in the city before the trans shooter targeted schoolchildren. 

A ban on “assault rifles,” “large-capacity” magazines, and suppressors is before the U.S. Virgin Islands’ legislature in the form of Bill 36-0144.

Gov. Tim Walz (D) confirmed he will call an emergency gun control session and criticized the number of guns and “type of guns” in circulation in America.

President Trump vowed to “solve” Chicago crime after the city witnessed at least 54 shooting victims, seven of whom succumbed to their wounds, over Labor Day Weekend.

At least seven people were shot after gunfire rang out three separate times Monday evening during the West Indian Day Parade in New York City.