TINLEY PARK, IL – DECEMBER 17: A customer shopped for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store on December 17, 2012 in Tinley Park, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 9:27 AM PT – Monday, April 19, 2021 Economist John Lott questioned the validity and effectiveness of gun control legislation. In …
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that Congress needs to act to end immunity to gun manufacturers and restrict so-called “assault weapons,” coming after a shooting in Indianapolis on Thursday. “Like all of you, we’re horrified by the shooting,” Psaki told a White House briefing. “We can’t afford to wait as innocent lives are …
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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA). (Photo by Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 1:15 PM PT – Friday, April 16, 2021 Congressman Mike Johnson (R-La.) has called for Democrats to take up measures to help stop gun violence without infringing on the Second Amendment. During an interview with One America News Friday, Johnson said the recent mass …
Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to ban the sale and possession of firearm suppressors, known as silencers. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) said that the 2021 Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act, would ban the sale, importation, manufacturing, and possession of silencers. The bill was first introduced in 2019 after a …
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Several Democratic members of Congress have proposed firearm legislation that would ban the sale, transfer, possession, manufacture, or importation of magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds. Several states including New York and California have previously imposed bans on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Magazines that held more than 10 rounds were banned …
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Gun rights groups are pushing back against a barrage of executive actions that the Biden administration has argued would help combat what it calls a “gun violence public health epidemic.” The six initial proposals outlined in a fact sheet released by the White House contain two orders that drew particular attention: a Justice Department (DOJ) rule aimed …
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FILE – This Nov. 27, 2019, file photo shows “ghost guns” on display at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 8:07 AM PT – Tuesday, April 13, 2021 A California gun seller has criticized Joe Biden’s crackdown on self-assembled ghost guns. On Monday, gun …
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North Carolina Republicans have filed a pro-Second Amendment bill that would repeal the state’s handgun permit requirement and reduce the number of years that people convicted of nonviolent crimes must wait before seeking to have their gun rights restored. GOP state Sens. Danny Britt, Jim Perry, and Todd Johnson, sponsored Senate Bill 687 (pdf), which was filed …
President Joe Biden’s claims that there are no background checks at firearms sales at gun shows have drawn criticism, with fact-checking websites saying that it is false. Biden during a White House speech on Thursday asserted that a person could buy “whatever you want” at a gun show without a background check. “Most people don’t know …
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One of the largest gun rights groups in the country said it is preparing to fight a slew of executive actions from the Biden administration, claiming they’re “tyrannical” and that they will “spare no expense” in defeating them. “Gun Owners of America is wholeheartedly opposed to the unconstitutional gun control threatened today by President Biden—restrictions …
