Current Events in the Gun Industry

Tisbury, Ma., Police Chief Mark Saloio seized the 84-year-old’s firearms—and fired him from his job as a crossing guard—after receiving a tip from a diner employee. The waitress had heard Nichols complain that the Tisbury School resource officer had been “leaving his post” and visiting a nearby convenience store while the children were filing into class.

“I expect my fellow Americans to follow the law,” the former Texas congressman explained. “The same way that we enforce any provision, any law that we have right now. We don’t go door-to-door to do anything in this country to enforce the law.”

By Larry Keane If you thought Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s public pledge to confiscate AR-15’s was bold and shocking, buckle up for billionaire Michael Bloomberg. He’s again toying with a run at the White House and if he does, he’s already poured millions into turning elections into anti-gun referendums. This would be his all-out blitzkrieg [...]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a raft of new gun control measures that will increase concealed carry fees, expand red flag laws and more.

Anchors and producers for several ABC News programs found themselves in hot water this week when they mistook (or intentionally misrepresented) footage from a gun range in Kentucky for battlefield video from the conflict between Turkish and Kurdish forces in Syria.

In a weekend segment by CBS News titled “How companies are reshaping the gun control debate,” Stack admitted to destroying $5 million worth of semi-automatic rifles. Stack also acknowledged what many have suggested since the CEO began his anti-gun crusade: his company’s bottom line has taken a massive hit.

A Kansas girl was arrested last month and charged with a felony for giving pistol fingers in class, local media reports. The girl, a student at Westridge Middle School in Overland Park, was allegedly responding to a classmate’s question on if she could kill five people in the room who would they be?   With [...]

Four people are dead following a knife attack Thursday at the police headquarters in Paris, France.

A GunsAmerica investigation has found that O’Rourke misrepresented and, in some cases, totally fabricated the exchanges he had at the Conway Gun Show on August 17. We spoke with the two men quoted in ABC’s original coverage of the event, and they both take issue with the way their comments have been used and distorted by the O’Rourke campaign.