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on June 12, 2016 in Gun Page World News

UCLA Students Plan ‘Institute On Gun Violence’ Following On-Campus Murder-Suicide

by AWR Hawkins On Friday, the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association (USAC) announced plans to launch the “UCLA Institute on Campus Violence” in response to the murder of Professor William Klug. The institute would use university funding “to study strategies to combat campus violence,” particularly as it relates to firearm-related attacks. According to the Daily News, USAC Vice President Rafael Sands “decried” Congressional failure to stop gun violence on school campuses. Sands gave particular focus to Congress not enacting more gun control in the wake of the December 14, 2012, attack on Sandy Hook Elementary. Sands did not mention that the commonality… View Article

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on June 10, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Post-Ninth Circuit Ruling: Only Donald Trump Can Save Our Gun Rights

by AWR Hawkins The Ninth Circuit’s ruling that Americans have no right to carry a concealed handgun outside the home for self-defense made one thing clear: only Donald Trump can save our gun rights now. Hillary Clinton cannot save them. In fact, she has made clear her plans to abolish the Second Amendment. And Antonin Scalia can no longer protect them, although a truer bulwark for the Second Amendment never lived. But Donald Trump can do it, and in keeping his pledge to put “somebody just like Justice Scalia” on the court, he will protect our guns from leftists in elected… View Article

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on June 9, 2016 in Gun Page World News

DNC Platform Committee Member: Nobody Should Own a Gun

by AWR Hawkins DNC Platform Committee member Bonnie Schaefer says she does not believe “anyone should have a gun.” She said this in a video aired by CSPAN and released on June 8. Schaefer said the focus has to go beyond “keeping the guns out of the hands of mentally ill people and criminals.” She added, “I really don’t personally think anyone should have a gun. That’s just my own philosophy.”   The video of Schaefer decrying private gun ownership comes just three days after presumptive Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton refused to answer George Stephanopoulos’ question as to whether the… View Article

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on June 7, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Record Gun Sales Continue Through May Thirteen straight months of gun sales records

BY: Stephen Gutowski Follow @@StephenGutowski The month of May saw yet another gun-related background check record making it the 13th month to see an all time high. The FBI completed a record 1,870,000 checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, this May, according to an agency report. That’s almost 300,000 more checks than May of 2015, which set a record at the time. It is also nearly a million more checks than May 2008. May was also the first month in 2016 that did not break two million checks as the gun industry enters a seasonal… View Article

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on June 6, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Hillary Clinton Outlines Plan to Abolish the Second Amendment

by AWR Hawkins During the June 5 airing of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton outlined her plan to abolish the Second Amendment. Hillary Clinton first disavowed that she is seeking to abolish the Second Amendment then went on to list five Second Amendment-crippling gun controls she plans to implement if elected in November. Clinton said: I’m going to continue to speak out for comprehensive background checks, closing the “gun show loophole,” closing the “online loophole,” closing the so-called “Charleston loophole,” reversing the bill that Senator Sanders voted for and I voted against, giving immunity from liability to gun… View Article

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