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The Hill reports: Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson expressed his willingness for a “conversation” on raising the minimum age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21 and “AR-15-style weapons” amid fresh talks on gun reform following a deadly mass shooting in Texas last week. Hutchinson told CNN’s John Berman on Tuesday that he supported an ongoing bipartisan dialogue …

“One thing that people don’t know is, President Trump never asked me. And I need to tell him that. He never asked me. I heard it all on television. “President Trump never came out and asked, ‘Herschel, will you run for that Senate?’ He never asked. I ain’t mad at him because he never asked, but he’s taking credit that …

“They just want you to think that all of a sudden the entire population is steadily turning gay or turning trans. Just generation, generation. Probably in about four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore. Everyone will be either gay or trans or non-conforming or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are.” – Noted …

Raw Story reports: Embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made an attempt to answer why anyone not serving in the military would have a need for an AR-15 capable of quickly spewing 300 bullets, as President Joe Biden noted in a speech over the weekend and received a speedy response from a mass shooting survivor. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Gaetz …

The New York Times reports: In the days after the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell was among a cadre of Republican lawyers who frantically compiled unsubstantiated accusations, debunked claims and an array of confusing and inconclusive eyewitness reports to build the case that the election was marred by fraud. Courts rejected the cases and election officials were unconvinced, thwarting a stunning …

The Wrap reports: First there was “gazpacho” police. On the far-right Georgia congresswoman’s most recent broadcast of “MTG Live,” Greene claimed that the government wants “surveillance on every part of your life,” including on when people are eating a cheeseburger. “Which is very bad because Bill Gates wants you to eat this fake meat that grows in a peach tree …

Yahoo News reports: President Joe Biden was warmly greeted when he visited Uvalde Sunday, but Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott was loudly booed as he approached the makeshift memorial at the elementary school where 19 children and two teachers were killed last week in a mass shooting. “Shame on you, Abbott!” a voice could be heard amid the boos and …

“You have to have multiple layers of security to protect the children. And there’s also the factor of human error. And that’s the reason that you’ve got to have different layers, you can’t rely upon just one technique. “School Safety is something that we all have to focus on coming out of the incredible tragedy that we see in Uvalde, …

The Hill reports: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on Sunday that he is “open to” an assault weapons ban after a gunman killed 21 people in Uvalde, Texas with an AR-15-style rifle. “I have opposed a ban fairly recently, I think I’m open to a ban now,” Kinzinger told co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It’s going …

“The Second Amendment is designed to help ensure that we, the citizenry, always have the right to take back our government should it become dictatorial. “That was a great fear of the Founding Fathers and, quite frankly, it’s a fear today. And as long as we enjoy infringed Second Amendment rights then we don’t really have to worry that much …

“We’re supposed to see something, say something, but we all know that if you actually see something and say something, you’ll get labeled. “They’ll say, ‘You’re a bigot, I can’t believe you’d do that.’ Maybe you misgendered that person. They’ll go after you for hate crimes, you’ll get sued for stating the obvious. “It’s the gun, it’s not the sociopath …

The Huffington Post reports: Going beyond even the GOP’s own platform, Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance told a Catholic magazine last year that pornography should be banned because it’s stopping Americans from getting married and starting families. “I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and …

The Buffalo News reports: Rep. Chris Jacobs of Orchard Park on Friday made a surprising about-face on gun control issues, becoming perhaps the first congressional Republican to call for an assault weapons ban in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas. At a news conference in Lancaster and in a later interview with The Buffalo …

The Insider reports: Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy this week said that he thought people still needed assault weapons to kill “feral pigs.” Vice News asked Cassidy whether he believed there was any room to ban assault weapons in the country. The lawmaker was also asked why someone would ever need an AR-15 — the weapon used by the gunman in …

Colorado Newsline reports: State Sen. Don Coram tried to paint himself as a moderate, experienced alternative to incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert during the first debate between the candidates ahead of the Republican primary elections. Though Coram’s campaign claimed that the candidates agreed on a “paper and pencil” policy — meaning they could have paper on stage to take realtime …

From the gunmaker’s Instagram page:  The NEW “Rally Cry” custom 1911 is the latest gun in @auto_ordnance series commemorating President Donald Trump’s administration. Each one of these special pistols are engraved by the artists at @outlawordnance with detailed imagery paying tribute to President Trump. The slide contains illustrations depicting the President’s “MAGA” rallies, his signature, and title as “45th President …

The Associated Press reports: Speakers at the National Rifle Association annual meeting assailed a Chicago gun ban that doesn’t exist, ignored security upgrades at the Texas school where children were slaughtered and roundly distorted national gun and crime statistics as they pushed back against any tightening of gun laws. TEXAS SEN. TED CRUZ: “Gun bans do not work. Look at …

CNBC reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Friday belatedly disclosed suspected cryptocurrency transactions that earlier this month led the House Ethics Committee to open an investigation into the North Carolina Republican’s possible promotion of an asset he secretly owned. Cawthorn, 26, revealed Friday that he bought between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of “Let’s Go Brandon” cryptocurrency on Dec. 21. The transaction …

Via press release from Indivisible Houston: Indivisible Houston Board Member Benjamin Hernandez challenged Ted Cruz to support background checks and other measures during a break in dinner at Uptown Sushi on Westheimer. “He needs to be held accountable,” said Hernandez. “For him to attend the NRA Convention today after the murder of 19 kids and two teachers in Uvalde three …

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told NRA members gathered at its national convention Friday that Texas has seen “face of evil” repeatedly — shootings in Dallas, Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe, the Midland-Odessa area and now Uvalde. “The entire state, the entire country, is horrified and grieving,” Cruz said. “And it’s an evil that has happened …