VP Kamala Harris Lauds ATF Rule Forcing Background Checks on Private Gun Sales
Kamala Harris posted a video to X on Thursday in which she praised the ATF’s proposed rule forcing background checks on private gun sales.
Kamala Harris posted a video to X on Thursday in which she praised the ATF’s proposed rule forcing background checks on private gun sales.
A proposed rule from the ATF will force private gun sellers to use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to sell their guns.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) echoed President Joe Biden’s State of the Union (SOTU) gun control push by calling for national passage of the same laws that have been failing to stop high profile shootings in California for more than 30 years.
The whistleblower group Empower Oversight is warning that the ATF’s pending rule implementing universal background checks violates the law.
New Mexico’s San Juan County Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence (NMPGV) violated the state’s universal background check law to acquire firearms the group highlighted on social media.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced legislation Wednesday to block funding for the ATF’s proposed universal background check rule.
The ATF, under pressure from GOP House members, agreed to accept 40,000 additional petitions against the agency’s background check rule.
An Oregon judge issued a permanent injunction against magazine capacity restrictions and a permit-to-purchase requirement for firearm buyers.
ATF director Steven Dettelbach told Harvard Magazine one of his wish list items is a renewed ban on “assault weapons.”
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) told Breitbart News that he has an amendment prepared to defund the ATF’s proposed universal background check rule.
The White House released a Fact Sheet on the universal background check rule announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Thursday, describing the rule as “life-saving.”
Joe Biden’s ATF announced a proposed rule Thursday requiring universal background checks, which Congress has rejected for more than 20 years.
Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to Saturday’s shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, by pushing gun control that would not have prevented the attack.
President Joe Biden boasted on August 17 about the number of times he has used executive action to institute gun control.
Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, is cheering executive gun controls expected to come from the Biden Administration soon.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) sounded the alarm Tuesday with a warning the Biden Administration is planning executive action to put universal background checks in place.
Fact Check: Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on Sunday that gun violence is the leading cause of death for children.
President Biden responded to Fourth of July weekend gun violence in numerous Democrat-run cities by pushing an “assault weapons” ban, “high capacity” magazine ban, universal background checks, and more.
Maine State Rep. Suzanne Salisbury (D) voiced support for gun control measures moving through the state legislature, suggesting lawmakers have to look beyond the Second Amendment and act in light of “real world experience.”
Three people were shot and killed in Farmington, New Mexico, despite the state’s red flag and universal background check laws.
An audio recording captured by Congressional Republicans in 2018 presents Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), suggesting things would be better in the U.S. if the Second Amendment had not been written.
President Joe Biden pushed for an “assault weapons” ban, a gun storage law, universal background checks, and the ability the to sue gun manufacturers before details about Saturday’s Alabama birthday party shooting were known.
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.