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They Knew His Name—He Still Shot Near the White House

Federal agencies had this man's name on a threat list before he ever pulled the trigger near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and they still couldn't stop him.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Bloomberg's Media Arm Is Trying to Kill Reciprocity—Here's How

Michael Bloomberg's gun-control media machine just fired its opening salvo against concealed carry reciprocity—and the timing is no accident.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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MN Dems Use Tax-Funded Press Office to Shame GOP Over Gun Bill

Minnesota House Democrats are using official state government communications — funded by your tax dollars — to publicly shame Republicans who blocked a gun-control package, and the Senate has already passed it. The clock is running.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Gunman Attacks White House Gate — Agents Drop Him Instantly

A gunman opened fire on a Secret Service checkpoint outside the White House and was shot dead on the spot—proof, in real time, that armed and trained defenders stop violent criminal attacks in ways no gun-free zone ever could.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Secret Service Drops Armed Gunman Steps From White House

A gunman opened fire near the White House and Secret Service agents put him in the ground. That is the system working exactly as designed.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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NPR Calls 2A Wins a Crisis—With Your Tax Dollars

NPR — partly bankrolled by your tax dollars — just published a piece treating the restoration of your Second Amendment rights as a five-alarm emergency, and they used the phrase 'golden age' like it was a death threat.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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California Bill: Prove You Deserve Your Gun—Or Hand It Over

California has a new message for law-abiding gun owners crossing its border: your constitutional rights are valid everywhere except here—until you pay the government's toll.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Armed Threat at White House Gates—Agents Drop Him Fast

An armed suspect approached the most heavily guarded address on earth Wednesday—and Secret Service agents put him down before he got through the gate.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Gunman Opens Fire at White House — Secret Service Drops Him Fast

A gunman opened fire on Secret Service agents at a White House checkpoint — and agents shot him dead before the threat went any further.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Gunman Opens Fire at White House — Agents Drop Him

A gunman opened fire on a Secret Service checkpoint outside the White House and was shot dead on the spot—proof, once again, that the only language a deadly threat understands is an armed response.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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MN House Republicans Block Senate Gun Control Package

Minnesota House Republicans are standing between gun owners and a sweeping gun control package the Democrat-controlled Senate just passed — and the DFL is launching a public pressure campaign to break them.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Gunman Attacks White House — Armed Agents End It Permanently

A gunman attacked a Secret Service checkpoint outside the White House and was shot dead — proof, once again, that the only thing that stops a violent actor is a faster trigger in a trained hand.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Shot Near the White House — D.C. Gun Laws Stopped Nothing

A bystander was shot near the White House this week — and every gun restriction Washington D.C. has ever passed couldn't stop it.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Armed Attacker Opens Fire at White House — Agents End It Fast

A man opened fire at a White House security checkpoint and was shot dead before the smoke cleared — the Second Amendment argument settled in real time on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Secret Service Shoots Armed Attacker Dead at White House Gate

A man brought a gun to a White House checkpoint and started shooting — and the only reason you're reading about it instead of a massacre is that trained, armed agents shot back and killed him on the spot.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Shot Blocks From the White House — D.C.'s Gun Laws Failed Again

An innocent bystander just took a bullet blocks from the White House — inside the most camera-covered, cop-patrolled, gun-banned corridor in the United States — and the law that was supposed to prevent it didn't even slow the shooter down.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Shot Fired Steps From White House — D.C.'s Gun Laws Useless

Someone just got shot in the shadow of the most heavily guarded address on Earth — and D.C.'s mountain of gun laws didn't stop a single thing.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Gunman Opens Fire at White House—Secret Service Ends It Fast

A man opened fire on Secret Service agents outside the White House and was dead before the echo faded.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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SCOTUS Grills Hawaii on Carry Crackdown in Landmark 2A Case

Supreme Court justices hammered Hawaii's lawyers during oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, signaling the state's sweeping carry restrictions may not survive the Bruen test — and taking several blue-state gun grabs down with them.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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SCOTUS to Hawaii: Where's Your History? Bruen Bites Hard

Hawaii's lawyers stood before the Supreme Court this week and couldn't produce a single historical analogue to save their gun carry law — and the justices noticed every second of it.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Florida AG to HOA: Drop the Gun Ban by June 1 or We'll See You in Court

A Port St. Lucie HOA thought it could quietly strip residents of their Second Amendment rights in common areas. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier just handed them a June 1 deadline to think again.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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One Dead Near White House — In America's Most Gun-Restricted City

A gunman killed one person and put an innocent bystander in serious condition near a White House security checkpoint — proving that even the most policed square mile in America cannot protect disarmed citizens from violent criminals.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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Boebert Bill Kills Every NFA Tax — And Takes the NFA's Last Legal Shield

The NFA's entire constitutional survival strategy just got a kill shot aimed at it—and the weapon is a zero.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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FBI Buries Armed Citizen Stops—CPRC Has the Receipts

The FBI has been systematically erasing armed citizens from its active shooter data—and the Crime Prevention Research Center just blew the cover off how they do it.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Gunman Opens Fire at White House Gate—Agents Drop Him

An armed attacker opened fire at a White House security checkpoint—and Secret Service agents ended the threat the only way it could end: with guns.

Google News · 2026-05-25

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NSSF Sues Virginia Over AR Ban Before July 1 Deadline

Virginia gun owners have until July 1 before SB749 makes felons out of millions of law-abiding citizens — and the NSSF just filed the federal lawsuit that could stop it cold.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Suppressors Don't Just Save Your Ears—They Fix Your Shots

Your suppressor isn't ear protection. It's a cheat code for accuracy—and the physics are bulletproof.

TTAG · 2026-05-25

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HOA Tried to Ban Carry. Cops Said No. The Fight Isn't Over.

A Florida HOA declared itself powerful enough to strip residents of their carry rights — and local police just reminded them they're a clipboard committee, not a government.

TTAG · 2026-05-25

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8,000 Rounds Later: The 1911 Still Wins

Critics keep burying the 1911. Eight thousand rounds of hard testing just proved them wrong.

TTAG · 2026-05-25

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SCOTUS Petition Filed: Kill Maryland's 'Sensitive Places' Scam

Maryland couldn't ban your carry permit after Bruen, so it banned carry in so many places that the permit became a prop—and now SAF and FPC are asking the Supreme Court to end the act.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Feds Charge GunTube Legend Dugan Ashley—Community Fires Back

The federal government just charged one of the most beloved veterans in the firearms community—and every gun owner, educator, and creator should be paying attention right now.

TTAG · 2026-05-25

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Massie's 2A Record: Unbreakable — Know It Cold

Thomas Massie is fighting for his political life in a contentious Kentucky primary — and every gun-control donor in America is praying he loses.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Trump Pulls the Trigger on Cornyn: Paxton Gets the Nod

John Cornyn gave Joe Biden the gun-control bill he'd been dreaming about for decades — and now Donald Trump just endorsed the man running to take his Senate seat.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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They're Not Catching Criminals—They're Hunting YOU

Every major 'ghost gun' prosecution keeps landing on convicted felons who were already banned from owning any firearm—serialized, unserialized, or carved from a stick—yet the gun-control lobby is using those arrests to come after *you*.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Ghost Gun Bans Trap Hobbyists, Not Criminals

The gun-control lobby's ghost gun crusade just got caught admitting it doesn't work — and they're doubling down anyway.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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They're Trying to Kill Massie's Primary—His 2A Record Says No

They can buy attack ads, flood mailboxes, and flood the airwaves—but they can't delete a congressional voting record, and Thomas Massie's is the one every Kentucky gun owner needs to read before they touch that ballot.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Ghost Gun Bans' Dirty Secret: Criminals Don't Care

Here's what the gun-control lobby will never say out loud: making unserialized firearms is already a federal felony for prohibited persons, and criminals don't file ATF paperwork. The latest "ghost gun" crackdown doesn't stop shooters — it turns law-abiding builders into targets.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Clock Hits Zero July 1: GOA & VCDL Race to Kill VA's AR Ban

At midnight on July 1, Virginia AR owners become criminals—unless GOA, VCDL, plaintiff John Crump, and their co-plaintiffs can get a judge to pull the emergency brake first.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Lose Massie, Lose the Floor: What's Really at Stake May 20

If Bloomberg's machine could hand-pick one congressman to destroy, it would be Thomas Massie — and right now, a Kentucky primary is giving them the shot.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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They're Spending Big to Make You Forget Massie's 2A Record

Thomas Massie's political enemies are dropping real money right now to make Kentucky gun owners forget more than a decade of the most uncompromising Second Amendment votes in the entire U.S. House.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Ghost Gun Bans Target Builders, Not Criminals

Anti-gun politicians have a dirty secret: their "ghost gun" crackdowns were never aimed at criminals. They were aimed at you.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Their Own Data Blows Up the Ghost Gun Lie

The gun-control lobby's ghost gun enforcement data is a confession—and they're praying you never read it.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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They Want to Kill the Best 2A Vote in Congress

There is one member of Congress who never flinches on the Second Amendment — and a primary election is being engineered to erase him.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Trump Backs Paxton: Texas Senate Is a 2A Litmus Test

President Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate runoff — and for every gun owner in the Lone Star State, the choice couldn't be starker: the man who fought federal gun grabs, or the Republican who wrote the left's biggest gun-control win in a generation.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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They're Trying to Primary Away the Best 2A Vote in Congress

You don't replace the best Second Amendment vote in the House of Representatives without a very good reason—and Massie's primary challengers don't have one.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Trump Backs Paxton: Texas Runoff Is a 2A Reckoning

President Trump endorsed Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate runoff — and John Cornyn's 2022 gun-control betrayal is now on the ballot.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Their Own Data Proves Ghost Gun Bans Miss Every Criminal

The enforcers' own numbers just torched their story: ghost gun crackdowns aren't touching criminals—they're hunting the hobbyist in his garage.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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The GOP Keeps Folding on Guns. Massie Never Has.

While fellow Republicans were cutting deals and calling it compromise, Thomas Massie was voting no—every time, on every gun-control push that crossed his desk.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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GOA & VCDL Just Filed Emergency Suit to Stop VA's July 1 Gun Ban

Virginia gun owners have a hard deadline: July 1, when Gov. Abigail Spanberger's 'assault firearm' ban turns commonly owned, legally purchased semi-automatic rifles and standard-capacity magazines into criminal contraband—unless Gun Owners of America and the Virginia Citizens Defense League can stop it in court first.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25

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Massie's 2A Voting Record Stands — Know It Before You Vote

Kentucky gun owners have a primary coming and a clear choice: a candidate with a bulletproof Second Amendment voting record, or someone whose tough talk has never been tested inside the Beltway.

Ammoland · 2026-05-25