Broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said it was a "form of psychosis" that caused him to believe certain events --- like the Sandy Hook massacre -- were staged.

...in order to win public-relations battles after gun massacres.

An October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 prompted action on bump stocks by President Donald Trump

“On 15 March, our history changed forever. Now, our laws will, too”

Ardern: ‘every semiautomatic weapon used in Friday attack to be banned’

Trump’s White House counselor promotes a white nationalist’s manifesto live on Fox News.

The suspect, it turned out, was a Turkish immigrant described by acquaintances as a sometimes-religious man with a criminal record who may have been entangled in a dispute with his ex-wife.

“I wanted the media and the other side to jump on it, to show that our Second Amendment rights are under attack”

In a manifesto [...] the accused gunman praised the US president as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose”

We have lectured other countries that the best way to limit violent radicalism is to attack its funding. It's time to take our own advice.

The country’s prime minister and attorney general have mentioned banning semiautomatic firearms, but it’s far from a done deal.

“I don’t. I don’t really. It’s a small group of people...But it is a terrible thing”

He appeared to be steeped in the culture of the extreme-right internet.

German officials allege Sig Sauer manufactured at least 38,000 pistols [...] before shipping the weapons to its U.S. entity's headquarters [...] which then completed the transaction with Colombia.

...a bizarre and telling tweak.

"Melania and I join all Americans in praying for the continued healing of those in the Parkland community and all communities where lives have been lost to gun violence."

Both students and editors said that the victims were mostly African-American or Latino, and that many of their deaths had not been publicized.

House Democrats will pass a gun control bill this week — amazingly, Senate Republicans may go along. It's a new day

...she joked that she would perform an abortion “with a gun” the next time she heard something she didn’t like from “those gender studies people.”

‘Impressing the NRA’s Russian hosts is the quickest way to secure a private interview with President Putin’

But now the N.R.A. is seeking to distance itself from the trip, after revelations that a Russian woman who helped arrange it, Maria Butina, was conspiring to infiltrate the organization.

The victims were not immediately identified.

"When I was interviewed by the special counsel's office, I was asked about the Trump campaign and our dealings with the NRA"

...a challenge to New York City’s prohibition on carrying a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun outside the city limits.

Legislative defeats, financial problems, and a surprisingly difficult ally in the White House.

"From the beginning, we have alleged that Alex Jones and his financial network trafficked in lies and hate in order to profit from the grief of Sandy Hook families."

The new measure, which was approved by voters in November, is being challenged in court by gun-rights advocates.

Employees at a Mexican restaurant [...] became alarmed after Albert came in with a gun Sunday morning and asked where the nearest Baptist church was.

States passed a flurry of gun-control measures in 2018, but the future of the push for greater regulation is tied to the much larger political drama playing out in America.

Americans who own bump stocks would have 90 days to destroy their devices or to turn them in

Five years. More than 150,000 shootings. How has gun violence marked your corner of the country?

Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns last year

In all, the NRA reported just under $312 million in total income, down from nearly $367 million the year before.

“I have told countless mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands, sons and daughters that their loved one is dead,” he added. “It never, ever gets easier. But honestly, I don’t want it to get easier – I want to not have to do it any more.”

Earlier this month, the NRA wrote that physicians with a “collective hobby” of “opining on firearms” should “stay in their lane”

In a tweet this month, the NRA told "anti-gun" doctors to "stay in their lane" after a series of research papers about firearm injuries and deaths was published

The gun lobby reportedly cut out free coffee at its headquarters as money runs tight.

A black security guard subdued an active shooter in an Illinois bar. When the police arrived, they shot him

The gunman [...] was also found dead on Wednesday night in the office of the Borderline Bar and Grill [...] apparently having shot himself.

–National Rifle Association of America

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a man who the authorities say killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue while spewing anti-Semitic slurs on 44 counts, including hate crimes. He could face the death penalty.

The man accused in the attack — the deadliest on Jews in American history, with 11 people killed — made his first court appearance Monday, two days after the massacre.

Wednesday, a white man with a history of violence shot and killed two African-Americans, seemingly at random, at a Kentucky Kroger store following a failed attempt to barge into a black church.

Armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning

A Texas judge denied the motion by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his Infowars operation by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim

4Chan has a brand-new imaginary girlfriend, and she might look a little bit familiar to you.

In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one.

Another mass shooting was unfolding in Florida, this time at a tournament for competitive players of the football video game, Madden, in Jacksonville.

The Education Department could face a legal challenge if it moves forward with a plan allowing states to spend federal funds on guns for school employees.

Such a move would reverse a longstanding position taken by the federal government that it should not pay to outfit schools with weaponry.

...her attempts at connecting with prominent American conservatives extended beyond making inroads with the gun-rights group.

The National Rifle Association says it's suffering grave financial harm that's threatening the group's ability to pursue its advocacy mission because of actions by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York regulators.

The National Rifle Association typically portrays itself as an indomitable force. But an ongoing court case has the gun group taking inventory of its wounds.

...the CLC claims that ... the NRA’s campaign and lobbying arms conspired ... to access valuable and electorally-sensitive information in order to strategically benefit four GOP Senate campaigns.

The scheme includes a fake instructional video featuring children’s songs and “gunimals” — weapons adorned with soft toys — that would purportedly help kids confront the school shootings that have plagued the United States for the past decade.

With a gun tucked into the waistband of his pants, Shane Ryan Sealy shouted “womp womp” and carried a sign that said “ICE ICE baby” as he walked in front of protesters

The NRA’s nonprofit status allows it to shield those donors’ names from the public, but not the IRS.

North said the “disease” causing such rampages is not firearms but “youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence” and who have “been drugged in many cases.”

Most residents here didn’t blame any gun for the tragedy down the street. Many of them pointed to a lack of religion in schools.

The expression of grief — and the promise of action — has become as familiar for Mr. Trump as it was for his recent predecessors.

In what has become a national rite, the authorities arrived en masse at a campus, this time at Santa Fe High School, 35 miles from Houston, as students fled in tears.

North was convicted in 1989 of charges including obstructing Congress, unlawfully mutilating government documents and taking an illegal gratuity.

Trump managed to stoke outrage and anger in both London and Paris this weekend — and he did so with a single speech.

“Knives, knives, knives, knives,” he said, mimicking a stabbing motion as he defended gun ownership in the United States.

But any streak of independence from the NRA was gone Friday, as Trump allied himself with some of the gun group’s biggest priorities in a rambling, 45-minute speech that focused as much on his foreign policy agenda, approval ratings and the latest in the Russia investigation as it did on gun policy.

The mismatch between Trump's rhetoric on gun laws and the legislative actions he ultimately ended up backing fits a larger pattern for Trump.

"I thought giving everyone a gun was to enhance safety. Am I missing something?"

The idea is simple but powerful: a federally issued license for simple possession of all semi-automatic firearms.

...he bought the shotgun without a background check from a private seller online a week after the Parkland massacre. Shooting, he said, was his only way out of a violent home life.

How do Americans kill themselves when they want to get attention? Just look at gun-related massacre after massacre, in which legally armed monsters take the lives of innocents, ensuring they get every front page and top-of-the-hour story, before turning the guns on themselves.

One person was injured in a shooting at Forest High School in Ocala, Fla., Friday morning, a short time before a planned student walkout to protest school violence.

Simpson placed the gun on the handrail of the bathroom stall, then left it behind as he went to wash his hands at a sink inside the stall

“I think a bat could disarm a pistol with a nice swing”

...the gun rights group reported receiving $2,512.85 in contributions and membership dues “from people associated with Russian addresses” or known Russian nationals living in the United States from 2015 to the present.

Investigators want to know whether Russia may have tried to use the NRA or other political organizations to influence the information environment inside the United States as part of the attack on the 2016 election.

Musician and NRA board member Ted Nugent likened Democrats, members of the media and others to “rabid coyotes” on Friday and suggested people should not wait to “get” their guns and “shoot” them on sight.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) placed the gun on a table for “several minutes” while arguing that the presence of the weapon in the room made his constituents safer

David Hogg is not an actor. He was indeed at school that day. Emma González did not tear up a copy of the Constitution.

The NRA acknowledged that it allows for the transfer of funds in between its various entities, making it difficult to track its funding entirely.

Stevens, who retired from the high court in 2010 as one of the longest-serving justices in history, argued the Second Amendment had been warped by gun lobbyists at the National Rifle Association to extend beyond its original intent.

At least 1.2 million people marched for gun control over the weekend at events across the US

Remington Outdoor, one of the oldest firearm manufacturers in the United States, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday amid mounting debt and declining sales.

"How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that"

“When you take 3,140,167—the number of students enrolled in Florida schools—and divide by $3,303,355—the amount of money Marco Rubio has received from the National Rifle Association, it comes out to a dollar and five cents. Is that all we’re worth to these politicians? A dollar and five cents? Was $17.85 all it cost you that day, Mr. Rubio? Well I say, one life is worth more than all the guns in America.”

On Thursday evening, NRA TV posted a clip on its YouTube channel entitled "A march for their lies" where the host addressed the Parkland students and said that if their friends hadn't died, "no one would know your names."

Hundreds of thousands of people from across the country descended on Washington Saturday to demand action on gun control in a mass demonstration

Sessions said on Friday that the Justice Department was proposing to ban so-called bump stocks through regulations rather than wait for Congress to act

The spending bill contains a modest measure to improve reporting to the national background check registry. That was expected in recent days, but on top of it the committee report contains language that will allow the Centers for Disease Control the authority to research gun violence.

Cameron said the school resource officer exchanged gunfire with the shooter.

The Federal Election Commission has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Russian entities gave illegal contributions to the National Rifle Association that were intended to benefit the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election

The STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn’t address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407-10 Wednesday.

Tuesday’s incidents, in which two trained individuals accidentally fired their weapons, highlight the dangers of putting more guns in schools.

The nationally organized walkouts, most of which were expected to last 17 minutes in symbolic tribute to the Florida victims, are unprecedented in recent American history.

...during a class devoted to public safety.

Trump on Monday abandoned his promise to work for gun control measures opposed by the National Rifle Association, bowing to the gun group and embracing its agenda of armed teachers and incremental improvements to the background check system.

A tense standoff ... came to a grim end Friday night when officers entered the room the gunman was in to find him and the hostages dead.

... saying it violates the Second Amendment by raising

“I am going to do what I think are common-sense solutions,” Scott said after the signing. “I think this is the beginning. There is now going to be a real conversation about how we make our schools safe.”

After weeks of debate, lawmakers approved a bill that would impose a three-day waiting period for most purchases of long guns and raise the minimum age for purchasing those weapons to 21. The legislation also includes millions of dollars to improve school security and train and arm school employees.

...in what police described as an accidental shooting.

Organizers halted an advertised raffle that would have awarded an AR-15 to the winner, and vendors were told they would not be allowed to sell the weapon at the monthly show.

Over the past 24 hours, Florida lawmakers, borrowing from counterparts in Georgia, have targeted an aviation fuel tax reduction benefiting Delta and proposed late night budget language to rebid a state rental car contract held by Enterprise.

But the twin tweets suggest that it may have taken the gun rights group only a little over a day to persuade the president to back away from his apparent embrace of gun control during a remarkable, televised meeting on Wednesday with members of Congress.

The $50 million sales tax exemption on jet fuel that was sought by Delta, one of Georgia’s biggest employers, had been included in a broader tax-relief bill.

Russian politician Alexander Torshin claimed his ties to the National Rifle Association provided him access to Donald Trump

“After the recent tragedies, lawmakers have shown a great deal of interest in a proposal that’s been circulating to sit back and do jack shit until the next entirely preventable massacre goes down on U.S. soil,”

Trump suggested that law enforcement authorities should have the power to seize guns from mentally ill people or others who could present a danger without first going to court. “I like taking the guns early,” he said, adding, “Take the guns first, go through due process second.”

Despite a recent shift in the national conversation around mass shootings, and tentative signals of support for an assault weapons ban from several Republican lawmakers, no GOP lawmakers have yet offered a full-throated endorsement of a specific piece of legislation on assault weapons.

One of the nation’s largest sports retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.

Glenn Haab ... has admitted that he altered words in an email sent by a CNN producer, ultimately producing the illusion the news network had demanded his son only ask their pre-written questions at a televised forum on guns last week.

The state House Appropriations Committee passed a stripped-down gun control bill, but the meatier Senate bill is scheduled to be taken up by the Senate Appropriations Committee later Tuesday.

"I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back."

"You know, I really believe — you don't know until you test it, but I think — I really believe I'd run into — even if I didn't have a weapon."

“I want highly trained people that have a natural talent, like hitting a baseball, or hitting a golf ball, or putting. How come some people always make the four-footer and some people under pressure can’t even take their club back, right? They can’t even take their club back.”

Several sellers said they were on track to double their normal sales for a weekend. “It’s sad to say, but whenever there’s a shooting, business only goes up because people are afraid of losing their right to own a certain weapon”

Two of the nation's biggest airlines on Saturday joined a growing list of companies that have publicly distanced themselves from the National Rifle Association amid a social media backlash in the wake of a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.

Democrats even made a point of running candidates in the 2006 midterms who could pick up NRA support.

"The strategic logic of the gun lobby's response to these massacres is generally to deflect, delay, and wait for public attention to turn elsewhere. (hence "thoughts and prayers/now is not the time.")"

Two major companies, Enterprise Holdings Inc. and First National Bank of Omaha ended co-branding partnerships with the National Rifle Association Thursday

@ArmMeWith school supplies. Literally. I should not be single-handedly keeping Target in business.

“You give them a little bit of a bonus, so practically for free, you have now made the school into a hardened target,” Mr. Trump said. The president estimated that 10 percent to 40 percent of school employees would be qualified to handle a weapon — he offered no data for the claim — and said he would devote federal money to training them.

—Sarah Chadwick, student survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Security videos showed School Resource Deputy Scot Peterson was armed and in uniform on the school campus when the shooting started... But he stood by as the violence unfolded.

“Watching a teenager fundamentally challenge Rubio’s talking points feels like watching a generation call B.S. on a whole form of politics”

Tenney, who is running for reelection in a hotly contested congressional district in Central New York, did not provide any evidence to back up her claim.

In fact, no federal appeals court has ever held that assault weapons are protected.

In subsequent tweets, the president doubled down on his support for concealed carry in schools.

He said he would favor raising the minimum age to purchase an assault rifle from 18 to 21. And he said he would consider restricting the size of magazines for firearms.

At issue is an annual provision in appropriations bills that states, "None of the funds made available in this title may be used, in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun control.”

In Tuesday's session, which opened with prayer for the community of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff were killed last week, Florida House lawmakers declined to open debate on a bill that would ban assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines.

Such displays have given gun-safety advocates fresh hope that the violence in Parkland — and the widespread response to it among youths — could create new momentum across the country to enact firearms restrictions.

Trump on Tuesday signaled an openness to modest gun-control measures following what he called an “evil massacre” at a South Florida high school last week that left 17 dead

Students who survived the Florida school shooting began a journey Tuesday to the state Capitol to urge lawmakers to prevent another massacre, but within hours the gun-friendly Legislature had effectively halted any possibility of banning assault rifles like the one used in the attack.

A Florida legislator’s aide was fired Tuesday after claiming two survivors of the Parkland high school shooting were not students, but instead “actors that travel to various crisis when they happen.”

In these baseless accounts, which by Tuesday had spread rapidly on social media, the students are described as “crisis actors,” who travel to the sites of shootings to instigate fury against guns.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a request from gun rights activists to examine California’s 10-day waiting period for firearm sales, prompting Justice Clarence Thomas to say his colleagues are turning the Second Amendment into a “disfavored right.”

More than 6 in 10 Americans fault Congress and President Trump for not doing enough to prevent mass shootings ... with most Americans continuing to say these incidents are more reflective of problems identifying and addressing mental health issues than inadequate gun laws.

...it tied in the failure of the FBI in reacting to warnings about the Florida mass shooter, who killed at least 17 people, and used that to challenge the credibility of the Mueller investigation.

One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking up the gun control debate.

This is the latest push for gun legislation in Trump’s tenure. The first came after a shooter in Las Vegas killed 58 people in October. There was bipartisan outcry and calls to more stringently regulate bump stocks, which the shooter used to increase his rate of fire, but the effort went nowhere.

In a letter on Friday, all 17 Democrats on the House Education Committee urged Representative Virginia Foxx, the committee’s chairwoman, to convene hearings on school shootings, describing them as a “public health epidemic.”

The indictment ... only compounds fears in the White House that Trump will attack the FBI in the wake of a school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead, and revelations that the bureau mishandled a tip about the alleged shooter it received in January. Senior staffers are actively urging Trump to avoid attacking the FBI

"Those 35 thousand people aren't going to change their minds," wrote one member, mocking those who would read the press coverage he and his friends concocted. "They're lemmings. ... They will go to the grave convinced that the shooter was a white nationalist."

“I have a lot of memories of going back and forth on whether accepting all this money from the NRA made me complicit in all of these deaths. ... but nowadays, I just fire off my ‘thoughts and prayers’ tweet without thinking about it and just keep going about my day.”

A worldwide shortage of thoughts and prayers may leave us with no choice but to actually do something by as early as January 2019, researchers are warning, after a recent study revealed the popular refrain is now fueling 93% of government inaction globally.

This American ritual does not end with a sheriff’s announcement of the number of dead and wounded. Other parts are acted out in an ever-running play whose plot turns on the national paralysis over the Second Amendment.

The vote was part of a larger suite of Congressional Review Act measures that passed early in the Trump administration.

Everytown, the gun-control group backed by Michael Bloomberg, says this is the 18th school shooting of 2018. We are seven weeks into the year. That means there’s a school shooting every 2.5 days. There have been 30 mass shootings this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

A heavily armed young man barged into his former high school about an hour northwest of Miami on Wednesday, opening fire on terrified students and teachers and leaving a death toll of 17

The company’s fortunes took a hit after the election of Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed “true friend” of the gun industry, because Hillary Clinton’s defeat erased fears among gun enthusiasts about losing access to weapons. Sales plummeted, and retailers stopped re-ordering as they found themselves stuffed with unsold inventory.

We’re far from understanding what role, if any, the N.R.A. played in helping Russia help Trump. But a scandal that encompasses both the Trump campaign and the right’s most powerful lobby would be bigger than most people imagined before Thursday.

...the NRA reported spending a record $55 million on the 2016 elections, including $30 million to support Trump – triple what the group devoted to backing Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race. Most of that was money was spent by an arm of the NRA that is not required to disclose its donors.

Russia, he wrote, was “quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the U.S.” and would attempt to use the N.R.A.’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., to make “‘first contact.’”

Sutherland Springs, Texas, was the location of the Nov. 5 church shooting where 25 people and an unborn child were killed.

Japan counts gun deaths in single figures annually

“And, it is the right thing to do, is to pray in moments like this because you know what? Prayer works.”

“This was a very deranged individual,” Trump said, adding, “We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries. This isn’t a guns situation.”

Reports that the perpetrator carried an Antifa flag and told churchgoers “this is a communist revolution” are fake news.

A gunman clad in all black, with a ballistic vest strapped to his chest and a military-style rifle in his hands, opened fire on parishioners at a Sunday service at a small Baptist church in rural Texas

With each mass shooting, Congress reignites a longstanding debate on gun control. But it’s largely one that fizzles out in time, resulting in little to no legislative changes. This time Democrats might have found the narrowest version of gun control legislation that could conceivably bring Republicans on board.

“Bin Laden — we knew who to hate. You saw Sandy Hook? We knew that mutant living in his basement. We don’t even know enough about him to hate him yet”

Below are the top 10 career recipients of N.R.A. funding – through donations or spending to benefit the candidate – among both current House and Senate members, along with their statements about the Las Vegas massacre.

For a generation, Republicans in Congress — often joined by conservative Democrats — have bottled up gun legislation, even as the carnage of mass shootings grew ever more gruesome and the weaponry ever more deadly.

“Once the nation has had time to properly grieve and the continents have completed millions of years of tectonic migration to collide into one supercontinent, then we can bring this issue to the table.”

Before he mowed down concertgoers from a perch high in a hotel tower, [he] created a ring of surveillance around him, with video cameras in his suite and in the hallway

Gun rights groups overwhelmingly support GOP candidates, contributing $5.9 million into Republican campaigns in the 2016 election cycle, compared with $106,000 to those of Democrats.

...the real culprit in these incidents is, and always has been, our country’s inadequate mental healthcare system that leaves troubled, potentially violent individuals without the support they need, and which my colleagues and I have spent most of our careers seeking, often successfully, to defund.

A gunman in a high-rise hotel opened fire on concertgoers at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip late Sunday

A gun researcher who says the federal gun background check system doesn't work has a new idea for preventing voter fraud at polling places: Make every voter pass a federal gun background check.

With Obama gone and Clinton back home in Chappaqua, that role is now filled by the “violent left” and the media. Since the violent left is a bit nebulous, it seems that the media will enjoy the majority of the NRA’s focus.

In previous tweets, the Wall Street financier called Hillary Clinton “incredibly competent” and appeared to be at odds with his new boss on issues such as gun control, climate change, Islam and illegal immigration.

Hodgkinson, who had been living in his van in Alexandria for the past few months, had posted anti-Trump rhetoric on his Facebook page and had written letters to his hometown newspaper blaming Republicans for what he considered an agenda favoring the wealthy.

—Rand Paul (who was present at the baseball shooting earlier today), US Senator for Kentucky, in a tweet from 23 June 2016

Scalise, 51, a representative from Louisiana, is the third-highest ranking House Republican and has a round-the-clock Capitol Police detail.

"Mr. President, every day we are having a gun debate because every day 90 people in our country die from gun violence. Many of them are kids"

Dr. Murthy has for years made headlines for calling gun violence a public health threat.

On the stump as a candidate, Trump often touted his commitment to gun rights and accused his general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, of wanting to get rid of the Second Amendment because of her support of gun control measures.

Sessions and Cook are preparing a plan to prosecute more drug and gun cases and pursue mandatory minimum sentences.

And it was those hallmarks of his Sikh faith that apparently led another man to confront him in his driveway, tell him to "go back to your country" and shoot him in the arm.

The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.

...while each act of hate is easily explained away as the work of a disturbed person, had these attacks been perpetrated by a Muslim or an undocumented immigrant, Trump would surely have claimed that he was right all along.

Ronald Reagan was the last president to skip the dinner ... because he was recovering from a gunshot wound in a failed assassination attempt on his life less than a month earlier.

Mr. Kuchibhotla was killed, and Mr. Madasani was wounded, along with a 24-year-old man who had tried to apprehend the gunman

A witness said he yelled “get out of my country” to two of the victims, reportedly saying the men, believed to originally be from India, were “Middle Eastern.”

Mr. Jones, in case you aren’t aware, is the conspiracy-theorizing, flame-throwing nationalistic radio and internet star who’s best known for suggesting that Sept. 11 was an inside job, that the Sandy Hook school shooting was “completely fake”

It also doesn’t include the mass shooting of African American churchgoers by Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist, at a Charleston church in June 2015, or a mass shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in November 2015.

The National Rifle Association had pushed for the repeal, and Republicans argued it infringed upon Second Amendment rights by denying due process.

Six men died in the shooting during evening prayers at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec (Islamic cultural centre of Quebec). Nineteen people were also wounded.