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DES MOINES — Beto O’Rourke, running out of money and flat-lining in public opinion polls, abandoned his presidential campaign on Friday, exiting the contest just as a crush of better-funded, higher-polling candidates arrived here for an Iowa Democratic Party event.

National gun control groups run by Michael Bloomberg and Gabby Giffords are reportedly “spending millions” to secure victories for pro-gun control candidates in Virginia.

SAN FRANCISCO – In a lighted garage on one of San Francisco's busiest streets, a young man in baggy trousers and messy brown hair pulled down his pants. He had been hiding two pairs of stolen jeans with the tags still on them. He handed them to another man waiting nearby, took some money, pulled up his pants and headed back into another store on Market Street — home to the city's high-end designers and big-chain retail shops.

President Trump has abandoned the idea of releasing proposals to combat gun violence that his White House debated for months following mass shootings in August, according to White House officials and lawmakers, a reversal from the summer when the president insisted he would offer policies to curb firearm deaths.

ORINDA (CBS SF) — The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office and the Orinda Police Department are investigating a Halloween night shooting involving multiple victims in Orinda Thursday, according to authorities.

Germany’s government this week advanced a series of proposals for stricter background checks for guns in the wake of a series of violent anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant crimes, according to The New York Times.

The gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety announced on Wednesday it will pour an additional $100,000 into the Virginia general election to promote candidates who support new gun safety legislation.

NEWTOWN -- Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was  in Newtown today discussing gun prevention - a topic all too familiar for the community following the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.

A Tuesday night “Tucker Carlson Tonight” segment featured a black female concealed carry holder and Detroit’s black police chief making the case for legal concealed carry for protection in one of America’s largest and most violent cities.

If you ask someone to point to a successful model of gun control, anti-gunners will typically look to Australia. They’ll say the Aussies have done a great job of taking guns off the streets.

Gun control did not become politically acceptable until the Gun Control Act of 1968 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Compares protest movement to ongoing democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong

Eric Brakey plans next month to hand over a $1,200 gun to someone who signs up to become a monthly donor to his 2nd District congressional campaign.

A federal claims court this week dismissed a lawsuit from bump stock owners that had alleged the U.S. government was improperly forcing them to destroy their devices without compensation.

An Allegheny County judge Tuesday struck down three Pittsburgh gun-control ordinances championed by Mayor Bill Peduto and several City Council members and passed in response to last year’s mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill.

Gun rights group raised $1.3 million in September

The movement by cities and counties to declare themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries” has been steadily growing for over a year now, and it looks like two more counties in Texas are joining the hundreds of communities that have already taken a stand in support of the right to keep and bear arms.

Massachusetts law currently prohibits ownership of “assault weapons,” the statutory definition of which includes the most popular semi-automatic rifles in the country, as well as “copies or duplicates” of any such weapons.

In what he said was an unscripted acceptance speech on Sunday night, comedian Dave Chappelle continued his recent campaign against cancel culture—while openly defying a smoking ban and defending the right to bear arms too.

The Trump White House is quietly reaching out to Second Amendment organizations and high-level supporters to let them know that the president is no longer backing any form of “red flag” firearms legislation or changes to the current background check laws, according to sources familiar with the conversations.

The Montana Supreme Court struck down a local gun law that had been upheld by a state judge, which would have forced Montanans to submit to background checks for every transfer of firearms, including purchases at gun shows.

How Democrats’ Gun Control Plans Would Wreck Wildlife Conservation

Governor Andrew Cuomo has long complained New York’s gun control efforts can only go so far. In fact, he has noted they stop at the state’s border.

There are a few things you just want to believe in. When the truth comes out, though, it can be heartbreaking.

Tallahassee, FL –-(Ammoland.com)- Earlier this month AmmoLand brought its reader a story of an alleged illegal gun list compiled by the Charlotte County Sheriff's Department using the FINDER system in Florida.