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Here is a look at some of the celebrities, athletes and lawmakers that donned orange for the first annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day, orchestrated by Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun-control organization funded by billionaire business magnate Michael Bloomberg.

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“Larry Pratt discusses current hot topic gun issues, including actor Vince Vaughn’s pro-gun comments to British GQ, stating that firearms in citizens’ hands are the ultimate defense against tyranny.”

“We’re bringing back the One Million Gun Challenge with a twist,” said Mike Fifer, Sturm, Ruger & Co.’s chief executive officer. “Our goal is to sell two million firearms between the 2015 and 2016 NRA Annual Meetings. With that, we pledge to donate not one, but two dollars to the NRA for every new firearm sold during that time. We accomplished our goals to support the NRA in 2012, and with the help of our loyal customers, we believe we can do it again.”

The head of the Transportation Security Administration was “immediately reassigned” Monday following an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security that found a failure rate of 95 percent in airport breach tests.

“Does changing the angle of an armor plate make it less likely to be penetrated? Let’s head to Demolition Ranch to find out!!!”

“This session has been an alarming show of politicking that caters to a gun lobby agenda,” said Sandy Chasse with the Texas Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. “As a gun-owning Texas mom, this is not the Texas I want for my family or community.”

“The Obama administration hates the Second Amendment, and it’s clear that every place where it can push, it will,” Michael Hammond, legislative counsel for the Gun Owners of America, told The Hill.com. “This is an indication of an anti-gun administration trying to annoy us in any way it can.”

“I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.” – Vince Vaughn