Shares in Smith & Wesson, the world’s biggest gun company, rose by more than 11 percent on Tuesday to $25.86, their highest level in more than a decade, the Guardian reports. Earlier in the day, President Obama announced a plan expanding background checks for gun sellers.

On Tuesday, the New York Times reports, President Obama will announce executive actions requiring anyone who makes a living selling guns—at gun shows, for example, or online—to register as a licensed gun dealer and conduct background checks.

Nine months ago, Ted Cruz was railing in support of the Second Amendment as the “the ultimate check against governmental tyranny—for the protection of liberty.” Now, as a group of armed men occupies a federal building in Oregon, Cruz says no one should use force to protest the government. What gives, Ted?

A total of 965 people fell dead this year after hearing the blast of a gun that belonged to a police officer.

By the numbers.

While pro-gun demonstrators staged an ill-advised and disturbing fake shooting to call for the need for guns on a campus full of people whose brains aren’t fully developed yet, on another side of the University of Texas at Austin campus, that protest was met with farts.

A man carrying two handguns and what appeared to be a machete was shot and killed inside a Walmart store in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, late Saturday night.

Back in October, 46-year-old Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez fired her handgun at two men fleeing a Home Depot in Michigan, hitting a tire in the car they were escaping in. But after being charged herself with reckless use of a firearm and sentenced to 18 months probation she announced that she has chosen to spite America... by never shooting wildly at random people ever again.

Multiple gun rights groups will be joining together this weekend for a mock mass shooting on the University of Texas campus, an event complete with cardboard guns, crisis actors, and fake blood. Now, what could this possibly accomplish?, a reasonable person might be wondering. But as one of the protestors told Statesman.com: “We love freedom, and we’re trying to make more freedom.”

Liberty University’s president this week raised some secular eyebrows when he urged his Christian students to start carrying guns. Now there’s a reasonable explanation: haters “lacking knowledge about the true character of God.”

Liberty University’s president decided that an arena full of people whose frontal lobes have not yet finished developing was the perfect place to denounce Islam and promote carrying dangerous weapons, all in the same breath.

Conservative blogger, unrepentant sexist, Twinkie opponent and fat man who hates fat lesbians Erick Erickson has a strong opinion about The New York Times’ front-page editorial calling for tighter gun laws in the wake of a spate of mass shootings in the U.S.

As the number of mass shootings in 2015 continues to climb and, by some counts even outpaces the number of days so far in the year, The New York Times issued a desperate plea for an end to the violence brought on by too-lax gun control laws in the U.S.

Why isn’t ISIS massacring people in the United States every day? Even after the FBI declared the San Bernardino massacre an “act of terrorism” today, the 14 bodies added to the jihadist column on the murder scoreboard still left Islamic radicals trailing right-wing extremists, 48 to 45.

According to the Los Angeles Times, reporters inside the recently re-opened home of the suspected terrorists behind Wednesday’s mass shooting came across receipts from CheaperThanDirt.com and BudsGunShop.com, legal online stores that are exactly what they sound like.

Here are today’s front pages of New York City’s two tabloid newspapers. Which one is “better?”

I hate to spoil the thrill of opening presents for all of you, but you are probably getting a gun for Christmas this year.

Humans invented weapons in part to equalize the physical differences between us. That’s perfectly understandable. But does your weapon have to be a gun? Chill out. Jesus.

Today, your future president Donald Trump doubled down on his assertion that the Paris terror attacks could have been stopped by armed civilians, telling Boston-area radio host Jeff Kuhner the following (via Buzzfeed):

A Chesapeake, Virginia woman has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering her mother and then sending a photo of the body to her father’s cell phone, reports the Associated Press.