AWR Hawkins

At least eight people were shot, two of them fatally, outside a Chicago McDonald’s Thursday night about 10:40 p.m.

Twice as many people died in traffic accidents than were killed in firearm homicides in the United States in 2020.

Duane Chapman, aka “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” reacted to Saturday’s Buffalo shooting by claiming that Americans ought to have to get a mental health card from a doctor before being able to buy a gun.

A group of Democrat senators is pushing to require would-be gun buyers to first acquire a license to purchase from the Department of Justice. 

An alleged carjacker was shot and critically wounded by a Chicago police officer after fleeing as officers attempted to make a stolen vehicle stop.

A man was shot and wounded Sunday night in Atlanta’s Buckhead area after he allegedly followed a ride share driver and impersonated a police officer.

The Lockheed Martin plant in White Settlement, Texas, which is near the Naval Air Station, was closed Thursday morning following a shooting incident at the gate.

On Tuesday Vox noted that New York’s red flag law should have prevented the Buffalo grocery shooting but the law failed to live up the promises made when it was enacted.

A DeKalb County, Indiana, homeowner opened fire on four alleged robbers around 6 a.m. Sunday, killing two of them. 

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) expressed frustration in the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that his legislation on gun control cannot get the votes necessary for passage.

Republican Sens. are rejecting calls for gun control coming from President Joe Biden and other Democrats in the wake of the Buffalo, New York,  mass shooting.

President Joe Biden spoke in Buffalo Tuesday and pushed for an “assault weapons” ban in the wake of Saturday’s shooting that killed ten people.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) wants to expand her state’s “assault weapons” ban in the wake of Saturday’s Buffalo shooting. 

Politico reports that Joe Biden and his White House team will use Saturday’s Buffalo grocery store shooting to push for confirmation of ATF director nominee Steve Dettelbach. 

The suspect who allegedly opened fire in Laguna Woods’ Geneva Presbyterian Church on Sunday used handguns that were legally purchased.

MMA star Paige VanZant displayed her shooting skills in a video on Instagram showing her shooting a KRISS Vector firearm at a gun range.

Thirty-three people were shot, five of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

NBC Los Angeles reports police arrived on scene at Laguna Woods’ Geneva Presbyterian Church to find that congregants hog-tied an alleged shooter with an extension cord.

A Buffalo, New York, resident reacted to Saturday’s attack on Tops Friendly Market by suggesting that armed citizens are the key to ending mass shootings.

Multiple people were shot at a church in Laguna Woods, California, on Sunday around 2 p.m.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown pushed for “sensible gun control” after Saturday’s attack on Tops Friendly Market left 10 dead and three injured.

The gun used to kill innocents in Saturday’s attack on Buffalo’s Tops Friendly Market was acquired legally. 

During a press conference late Saturday afternoon Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the “shooter traveled hours from outside this community” to carry out attack. 

A suspect is in custody and numerous people are wounded following a Saturday afternoon shooting at Buffalo, New York, grocery store.

Seventeen people were injured and ten people were taken into custody after gunfire erupted on Milwaukee’s Water Street Friday night.

San Antonio-area La Vernia Independent School District voted this week to allow armed teachers for classroom defense under Texas’s Guardian program.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study this week which showed a higher firearm homicide rate in 2020 and pointed to poverty as a factor in the increase. 

Police are searching for a gunman who opened fire Wednesday and injured three Korean women in a beauty salon in Dallas’s Koreatown. 

A three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down California’s ban on semiautomatic rifle sales to 18-20 year-olds on Wednesday.

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz released a video to shore up his pro-gun claims, and the video showed him holding his thumb behind the slide of a Glock handgun while he fired it.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Debra Houry, director of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, suggests that planting more trees can reduce gun violence.

Rapper Dom Kennedy described Los Angeles’ gun control laws as “unconstitutional” and is suing the city after being arrested for carrying a gun for self-defense. 

Senate candidate Mehmet Oz (R) renewed his pro-gun claims by releasing a video of himself shooting skeet and discussing the importance of the Second Amendment.

A man armed with a gun and a knife was shot by Atlanta police Monday morning after he allegedly fired twice toward a school bus stop.

The Firearms Policy Coalition wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee to voice opposition to ATF nominee Steve Dettelbach, who ‘has spent much of his career supporting partisan platforms and the gun control movement.’

California Assembly Bill 1221 was amended last week to “immediately” impose an excise tax on handguns, rifles, and ammunition, should it become law. 

A 14-year-old boy is dead after being shot late last month while trying to rob a retired Cook County, Illinois, sheriff’s officer. The retired officer was “distraught” after learning the age of the suspect he shot during the incident.

Sig Sauer held their first SIG Freedom Days event May 6-8, 2022, at the Ben Avery Shooting Range on the north side of Phoenix, Arizona.

Twenty-three people were shot, five fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

A man allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at officers outside a Raleigh, North Carolina, police station was shot dead by police Saturday afternoon.