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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday said she supports a ban and buyback of military-style, semi-automatic firearms, but also suggested that “assault” weapons aren’t really doing any harm if people are simply allowed to keep the ones they currently own at their homes.
Mental health advocates chastised President Trump for saying the U.S. could fight gun violence by reopening institutions to keep “mentally deranged and dangerous” people off the streets, saying it could stigmatize patients who thrive in their communities, while allowing hateful shooters to hide behind the banner of mental illness.
A police spokesman says a Sept. 6 football game between an El Paso high school and the school attended by the suspect in the El Paso mass shooting was cancelled because of fear of it becoming a platform for extremists.
President Trump said Thursday in response to mass shootings that the U.S. needs to build more mental institutions to keep sick, dangerous people off the streets and away from access to guns.
Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday that this month’s shooting rampage in El Paso was “racist domestic terrorism,” and said he would back legislation to try to prevent similar attacks in the future.
Americans support banning assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons by a margin of two-to-one, according to the results of a recent Fox News poll released Wednesday.
Several Democratic lawmakers in the Philadelphia area have called for action on gun control after an intense police standoff Wednesday that left six cops wounded.
As he mulls proposals on gun control, President Trump said Thursday that the gunman who shot six Philadelphia police officers should have already been in prison due to his “long and very dangerous criminal record.”
The Philadelphia police standoff was still ongoing Wednesday night, but the city’s mayor and several national Democrats immediately issued calls for more gun control.
Multiple police officers were injured in a gunfight in a North Philadelphia neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala D. Harris on Wednesday proposed expanding background checks to internet guns sales as part of a plan to crack down on white supremacists and other domestic terrorists.
Sen. Mazie Hirono said Wednesday she’s skeptical whether President Trump’s push for gun background checks will develop into actual legislation.
A Senate Democrat warned the Supreme Court this week not to hear a case involving a New York City gun control law, saying the GOP-appointed majority is too tainted to deliver a valid ruling.
A gunman opened fire early Tuesday morning on San Antonio buildings where ICE and its contractors have offices, in the latest incident that appears to target the law enforcement agency that handles deportations.
The mayor of San Jose has proposed requiring gun owners in the nation’s 10th largest city to carry liability insurance to cover taxpayer costs associated with firearm violence
Democrats took new steps Tuesday to try to keep political momentum on gun control, as they fear short summer attention spans might sap their strength before Congress returns in September.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley said during Monday’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the “common enemy” in the gun violence “epidemic” plaguing the country.
President Trump renewed his call for “meaningful background checks” for gun purchases on Tuesday, but suggested Democrats could be the hurdle to getting any bill done.
Prosecutors in Virginia say a man shot his wife to death, then shot himself and placed the gun in her hands to cover up the crime.
Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against Ethan Kollie and accused him of buying weaponry used by Connor Betts in last week’s mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Monday provided some more details on his idea to personalize guns so only the owner would be able to operate them as a potential way to cut down on gun violence.
Rep. Katie Hill on Monday criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s calls for gun reform despite so far having ignored several bipartisan House-passed bills for months that would provide background checks and research.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, who was shot by a supporter of Sen. Bernard Sanders as he yelled “this is for health care,” cautioned against pointing political fingers after mass shootings over the attacker’s motivations, warning it can be a “slippery slope.”
Mourners gathered across the country Saturday to remember the lives of a graduate student beloved by friends, a man who died in his son’s arms and a mother who shielded her infant from gunfire.
Rush Limbaugh says President Trump is risking the same electoral fate as George H.W. Bush if he deals with Democrats on new gun control legislation.
An armed man who was arrested after sparking fear at a Missouri Walmart by carrying a loaded rifle Thursday has been identified by police.
An anti-gun activist who walked into a Walmart in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Wednesday and asked to purchase a gun that could “kill 200 people” is now admitting that the stunt was in “poor taste.”
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said Friday it will examine the role of licensed gun dealers who sell a large number of firearms used in a crime.
President Trump on Friday reiterated his support for new gun control measures, telling reporters on the South Lawn that he has consulted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and National Rifle Association Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre on how to move forward.
When it comes to who or what is most to blame for recent mass shootings in the U.S., a new poll ranked President Trump as number six, with the nation’s mental health system ranked as the most important factor.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday called on Walmart to stop selling guns, after more than 20 people were killed in a shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, last weekend.
President Trump on Friday assured that discussions are taking place to pass “meaningful background checks” in the wake of two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead.
In response to last weekend’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro unveiled a plan on Friday that would bolster federal efforts to combat extremism and domestic terrorism and institute new gun policies such as a national licensing system and a federal buyback program.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday passing some type of gun reform will be a “front and center” issue in September after two mass shootings over the weekend.
Democratic presidential hopeful Tim Ryan on Friday said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was doing a Washington, D.C.-style rhetorical dance with his stated approach on gun legislation in the wake of last weekend’s shootings in Ohio and Texas.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Thursday accused President Trump of being “afraid” of the National Rifle Association, as both parties weigh a potential legislative response to last weekend’s shootings in Texas and Ohio that left more than 30 people dead.
Police in Springfield, Missouri, say they have arrested an armed man who showed up a Walmart store wearing body armor, sending panicked shoppers fleeing the store.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Trump on Thursday telling him to use his constitutional powers to call Congress into session to and demand it quickly pass new gun controls.
Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday that President Trump should reinstate his assault weapons ban following shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that killed 31 people combined over the weekend.
Nearly 30 firearms were lost or stolen from the Drug Enforcement Administration over a four-year span, according to a watchdog report released Thursday.
A new poll released Wednesday found a majority of Republicans support a potential assault weapons ban following two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
Some conservatives are parting ways with President Trump over his support of “red flag” laws to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed high-risk or mentally unstable.
Democratic presidential hopeful Steve Bullock on Wednesday said he believes a 2008 Supreme Court decision that said Americans have a constitutional right to have a gun for self-protection should stand.
An attorney for the family of the man charged in the El Paso Walmart shooting rampage says the man’s mother contacted police weeks before the rampage out of concern that her son had a rifle.
President Trump traveled to hospitals in Texas and Ohio Wednesday to console victims recovering from mass shootings that left 31 dead, and he pledged to advance gun control legislation, declaring himself “all in favor” of expanded background checks.
Sen. Bernie Sanders says any new gun laws that come in the wake of last weekend’s mass shootings should be accepted by the “99.9% of gun owners [who] would never in a million, billion years think of doing these horrible things.”
A major National Rifle Association donor sued the gun-rights organization this week for fraud, saying its leaders have misspent money over the last four years, ignoring the group’s core mission while paying for expensive clothing and trips for CEO Wayne LaPierre.
Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday President Donald Trump “introduced the idea” of red flag laws, despite the fact 17 states and Washington D.C. already have laws on the books, some dating back to 1999.
Walmart employees are reportedly planning to walk out Wednesday afternoon to protest the company’s continued gun sales in the wake of Saturday’s mass shooting at a Texas Walmart that left 22 people dead.
Fox Business’ Trish Regan says it’s time for President Trump to push for a ban on “assault weapons” in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
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A Florida sheriff is responding to mass shootings by offering advanced firearms training to concealed weapons permit holders.
Congress cannot duck the issue of expanded background checks in the wake of last weekend’s shootings, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday, rejecting what he said were GOP plans to pass more limited legislation encouraging states to confiscate guns from dangerous individuals.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday said President Trump’s rhetoric tracks closely with words in an anti-immigrant manifesto that authorities have linked to the accused El Paso shooter, and that Mr. Trump can’t be counted on to rise to the occasion and unite the country after last weekend’s shootings in Texas and Ohio.
This season’s crop of Democratic hopefuls is tacking far to the left on gun control after mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend. They have called for national licensing and firearm buybacks and suggested sending federal agents into people’s homes to confiscate weapons.d
I used to be passionately anti-gun. I gave money to anti-gun organizations. So, I know full well the emotional drive to promote “common-sense gun laws.”
Acrid gun smoke clouded the sunny entrance of a Texas church on a recent Sunday. Seven men wearing heavy vests and carrying pistols loaded with blanks ran toward the sound of the shots, stopping at the end of a long hallway. As one peeked into the foyer, the "bad guy" raised the muzzle of an AR-15, took aim and squeezed the trigger.
The so-called "assault weapons" ban that is proposed for a constitutional amendment to be on the 2020 Election Ballot bans the possession of: “any semiautomatic rifle or shotgun CAPABLE of holding more than ten (10) rounds of ammunition at once, either in a fixed or detachable magazine or other ammunition feeding device.”
The Christian Science Monitor describes itself as “an independent international news organization” that wants to “help you to see news events as starting points for constructive conversations.” Its editorial board recently published an article, A seed for society’s safety: Gun buybacks, discussing why New Zealand’s “gun buyback” program could serve as a useful model on how the government can engage with gun owners in this country. According to the piece, the “voluntary nature of gun buybacks – along with the incentive of being compensated – gives them a special place in the worldwide debate over gun regulations.” In the case of the New Zealand program, it is neither a “buyback” nor voluntary. Apart from the quibble that the privately-owned guns have not been owned or sold by the government such that any later relinquishment is, in fact, a “buy back,” there’s nothing optional about the program, unless the decision between surrendering your property or facing hard jail time can be said to represent a real and honest choice.
There are some odd dynamics in international relations. Countries in which people are not free serve on the UN Human Rights Council. Political considerations guide every action. Of course, the NRA is a single-issue organization so international relations are not usually front and center for us. We’re focused on protecting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. The horrific attacks in El Paso and Dayton gave opportunistic foreign regimes an opening to offer clumsy critiques of the United States regarding our level of violent crime.
