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Attorney General Ken Paxton is touting a major win for gun owners after the Trump Department of Justice backed off defending a Biden-era rule that targeted private firearm sales. The move leaves in place a court injunction that blocks enforcement of the regulation in Texas and other plaintiff states while litigation continues. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ “engaged in the business” rule—pushed under the Biden administration—sought to dramatically expand who counts as a “dealer” under federal law. By redefining the term, the rule would have forced many ordinary gun owners who occasionally sell firearms to obtain a...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attacked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for criticizing Democrats for their violent rhetoric after a shooting took place in the vicinity of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel. During a press conference on Monday, Jeffries labeled Leavitt a “stone-cold liar,” and accused her of reading “talking points” and being critical of words Democrats had said. “I know you said you stand by your comment, but at the same time you have been a subject of threats as well, so, with respect to this comment about maximum warfare, even if...

Of all the things we've seen or heard since Saturday's assassination attempt, this might be the most disturbing.Tennessee's Andy Ogles was one of the guests at the WHCD on Saturday and during the assassination attempt, he recounts hearing the most disgusting remark from one of the "journalists" present.There was a reporter in the room who was under a table, and when the shots went off, everyone's hiding, she said, 'I hope they kill the orange MF.'That was a journalist in the room who was hoping that when she stood up the President of the United States would be dead ......

Why White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen’s reported link to a group known as “The Wide Awakes” receiving such little scrutiny from the media? The name is associated with an arts-and-music-adjacent activist collective that describes itself as a creative, pro-democracy movement inspired by the original Civil War-era Wide Awakes. That’s what the media wants you to believe. But that cultural collective is not the only relevant use of the term: a mainstream progressive group’s own materials repeatedly reference “Wide Awakes” as a direct-action protest tactic. Including specifically targeting the tactic towards Hilton hotels, where the WHCD took place,...

Pistols were commonly owned in America at the time of the Revolution. Clayton Cramer & Joseph Edward Olson lay out extensive evidence in their paper.Numerous people claim that pistols were not common during the American Revolution. This is done to imply concealed arms were not included in the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Clayton Cramer and Joseph Edward Olson published a paper outlining extensive evidence of pistol ownership at the time of the American Revolution. The paper was published in the Willamette Law Review on June 3, 2008, pages 699-722.In early America, pistols were distinguished from guns or firearms....

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, chimed in on the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He released a statement through his attorneys condemning political violence in the wake of the shooting, according to The Hill. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, issued a statement this week decrying political violence in the wake of an assassination attempt on President Trump. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, is accused of trying to assassinate Trump and members of his Cabinet at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner Saturday. The plot...

In a shift from the past, more accused violent assailants have striking academic records. ‘We’re seeing a new breed of individual.’ An Ivy League grad. An aspiring engineer who scored 1530 out of 1600 on his SAT. A 4.0 high-school student with a prestigious college scholarship. And now, a Caltech grad.

Secret Service agents fired five shots at the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump but failed to hit him and may have accidentally struck one of their own, the acting attorney general revealed. Todd Blanche told reporters Monday that agents subdued alleged gunman Cole Tomas Allen, 31, only after he tripped and fell while breaching a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. 'One Secret Service officer was shot in the chest, but was wearing a ballistic vest that worked,' the acting Attorney General said. 'This heroic officer who was hit, fired five times at Allen, who was...

There have been 63 school shootings – meaning any time there is gunfire on a school campus – so far in 2026. They happen so often that preparing for one has become normal. Students as young as 4 years old routinely practice for the possibility of a school shooting with lockdown drills – typically, hiding in the corner of a dark classroom, behind a locked door. Pauls Valley High School in Pauls, Oklahoma, went into lockdown on April 7, 2026, after an armed gunman fired shots inside the building. Kirk Moore, the school’s principal, tackled the gunman and got shot...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Trump Administration took further action to protect Second Amendment rights on Wednesday.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Robert Cekada held a news conference to unveil a "landmark package" of proposed and final gun regulations for the DOJ and ATF.z,pz. They announced that the vote on the package passed on Wednesday afternoon, releasing 34 notices of final and proposed rulemaking following regulations.Blanche said the package "reduces unnecessary burdens on lawful gunowners and licensed businesses, it eliminates ambiguity and it helps prevent the kind of confusion that, in...

Gun owners have won a significant victory in Maryland, with the state Supreme Court tossing several gun control ordinances adopted by Montgomery County in the wake of the Bruen decision in 2022. Maryland legislators passed their own Bruen response bill after the state's "may issue" concealed carry permitting system was ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS, but Montgomery County's measures were even more restrictive. The Maryland Supreme Court opinion is thick with legalese and citations to various sections of code that can make it a little difficult to understand the scope of its decision, but the 2A group Maryland Shall Issue provided...

A teacher at a pre-K and kindergarten in Cincinnati, Ohio, is facing intense backlash and calls for her termination after posting a video expressing her disappointment that President Donald Trump survived the latest assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. Corinne Baum, whose LinkedIn says she is a teacher at The Children’s House in Cincinnati, a private Montessori-style school, posted a video lamenting the news that the gunman’s attempt on the president’s life had failed. “Man, there’s been a few creators on here saying that like Friday or yesterday could have been the day, and then I...

A DoorDash driver shot and killed a suspect who shot and injured him during an attempted carjacking at Walgreens in Berry Hill Saturday afternoon, according to Metro Nashville Police Department Public Information Office Don Aaron. Officers responded to the Walgreens in the 2600 block of 8th Avenue South just before 1 p.m. for reports of a shooting. When officers arrived on scene, they found two gunshot victims. Aaron said the preliminary investigation into the shooting shows that a DoorDash delivery driver pulled into the Walgreens parking lot before walking to the Chick-fil-a next door to pick up an order. As...

UFC President Dana White said being at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner during the shooting was “-–-ing awesome,” in a characteristically unfiltered reaction rapidly circulating on social media. White, 56, a longtime Trump ally, said he was seated “right in front of the president” when the gunfire broke out, and described the hectic scene to a reporter recording him on his phone. “It started getting noisy — tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and screaming ‘get down!'” he recalled. “I didn’t get down, it was -–-ing awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was...

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has revealed he is close friends with the parents of the gunman snared at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Paul Thompson, a Democratic major crimes division prosecutor, told the California Post he lives next door to the family but said Cole Allen “pretty much kept to himself.” He said the Caltech-educated gunman, who is accused of trying to storm the doors just yards away from President Trump, still lived with his parents at the address in Torrance. SNIP He continued: “I’m friends with his father. I know them to be really nonviolent and...

HISTORIC PHOTO 10:15PM, President Donald Trump rushes into the Oval Office after an assassination attempt — analyzing intel on what happened Flanked by Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Stephen Miller and more

A brewery in Wisconsin is offering free beer on the day President Trump is successfully killed. Aren't they literally offering gifts or compensation for the murder of a sitting US President? Shouldn't the FBI go speak with them?

Most cheered, but some called it a hoax or claimed it was a Trump supporter who did it. We've seen it before -- the giggling, the gloating. The left always dances a jig whenever evil takes a shot at President Trump, which happened again last night. President Trump charitably called the would-be assassin 'a sick person.' But the left embraced that 'sick.' They hate Trump so much they hailed that sicko and all the evil around him. The most hideous ones were found on X: [numerous X posts in article] SNIP Obviously, they are constrained by staff rules and can't...

The suspected White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, signal boosted posts on the left-wing social media platform Bluesky arguing that President Donald Trump should be "immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes" and criticizing a "Freedom of the Press" pocket square that many journalists donned at last night’s dinner as "a white flag that no one can read unless you pull it out and wave it in defeat," a Washington Free Beacon review found, suggesting he thought a stronger message of opposition to the president was called for. "the president of the united states is...

In the ongoing study of the effectiveness of handguns as a defense against bears, there are over 200 documented cases. Of those, 184 involve only handguns. The others are combination situations where other deadly force was used in addition to handguns. Of the 184 cases, 161 include information about the number of shots fired. In 23 cases, the number of shots is not known.The data is likely skewed by unavoidable selection bias. The data is limited to cases that are documented. There is a strong selection bias against cases that do not involve dramatic outcomes or human injury, or that...