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A new study has revealed that of the estimated 1.013 billion smalls arms worldwide, civilians hold 857 million of them, a 32 percent increase since 2006. The study’s authors attribute the rise both to better reporting data and to rising gun ownership in the United States, whose citizens hold 40 percent of the world’s civilian firearms.

Persons under the age of 18 will no longer be allowed to view gun accessory ads on Facebook, the social networking site announced this week.

Virginia’s Chesapeake City Council voted last week to donate rather than destroy a rare World War II firearm believed to have popularized the term “assault rifle.”

Remington Arms is launching a new family of competition-oriented 1911-pattern pistols called the R1 Limited Series in single- and double-stack configs.

“One grocery store doesn’t get so big that it lends and borrows and buys and sells from nearly every other grocery store in the country. These banks do. A grocery store also doesn’t need or get an $812.3 billion bailout from the American taxpayers,” added Kennedy.

Hillary Clinton just won’t go away. Despite her historic, embarrassing loss in the 2016 presidential election, the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence awarded Clinton the “Courageous Leadership Award” at their 25th anniversary dinner on Thursday night. Clinton took the opportunity to bash the NRA and received a standing ovation for her efforts.

Colorado Congressional candidate Levi Tilleman proposes that instead of allowing teachers to arm themselves, schools (funded by American taxpayers) should arm every teacher with a can of pepper spray. To demonstrate the effectiveness of his solution, Tilleman allowed himself to be sprayed in the face.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors has 1,400 members representing cities across the country with a population of 30,000 or more people. This week the bipartisan group went to Boston for its annual meeting, during which its members passed numerous gun control resolutions.

The off-duty FBI agent who lost control of his gun earlier this month while breakdancing and backflipping at a bar in Colorado is being charged, authorities announced Tuesday.