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A Kentucky school district where two students were fatally shot last year has been awarded a second federal grant to help recover from the tragedy.
Add the brief but tragic odyssey of Sol Pais to the story of Columbine High School as Colorado prepares to mark the 20th anniversary of the infamous school shooting.
In the days after a teenager shot and killed three fellow students at Ohio’s Chardon High School in 2012, then-Principal Andy Fetchik remembers getting a call from someone who knew just what he was experiencing.
New Zealand’s Parliament on Wednesday passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military-style weapons, less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded.
A Texas gun company that destroyed more than 73,000 bump stocks when a federal ban on the rapid-fire devices took effect has sued the U.S. government claiming millions of dollars in losses.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, who became the latest Democrat to join the crowded 2020 presidential race on Monday, said he intends to make gun violence his top campaign issue, proposing a mandatory federal ban and buyback on all semiautomatic rifles.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday denied an application from gun-rights advocates to delay the Trump administration’s ban on bump stock-type devices, which took effect on March 26.
Naval Air Station Oceana says one person has been wounded in a shooting at its facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Florida sheriff whom Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended after accusing him of failing to prevent the Parkland school shooting.
The House passed Democrats’ new version of the Violence Against Women Act on Thursday, rejecting Republicans’ pleas to restore quickly the old law which expired earlier this year.
The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will retire at the end of April, handing the long-beleaguered agency some fresh uncertainty after nearly four years as its acting director.
A judge delayed the trial of a man charged with killing five people at a Maryland newspaper office until November on Thursday. Also, a deadline for attorneys to change his plea to not criminally responsible by reason of insanity was extended again, as the defense evaluates what an attorney described as his client’s “bizarre behavior” and a “history of mental illness.”
Police say a man was trying to abduct a child at a mall when the mother stopped him by pulling out a gun.
New Zealand lawmakers on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of new gun restrictions during the first stage of a bill they hope to rush into law by the end of next week.
A federal appeals court in D.C. on Monday ruled that a lower court was correct in denying a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the Trump administration’s ban on bump stock-type devices.
U.S. Army soldiers will soon have a harder time qualifying on the branch’s M16 rifle and M4 carbine qualification courses.
Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted Sunday that Grammy-nominated and widely respected West Coast rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed outside his Los Angeles clothing store.
Democrats will insist on new gun controls as part of their push to renew the Violence Against Women Act, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
The Supreme Court left in place the Trump administration’s new ban on bump-stock firearms devices, moving Thursday to reject attempts to halt the policy by gun-rights groups who said their Second Amendment rights were being prematurely stripped.
Sen. Cory Booker has promised to “bring a fight” to the National Rifle Association if he’s elected president in 2020.
Longtime schoolteacher Deborah Judd has grown accustomed to active-shooter drills in her second-grade classroom. She was less prepared to see a gunman in the street on her way home.
New Hampshire’s attorney general’s office says a man has been killed in an officer-involved shooting with police and Drug Enforcement Agency agents at a hotel. Two people remain barricaded in a first-floor room.
Key senators on Tuesday voiced support for legislation that would incentivize states to develop “red flag” laws that allow courts to suspend the gun rights of potentially dangerous people.
Australia’s prime minister on Tuesday accused an influential minor political party of trying to “sell Australia’s gun laws to the highest bidders” by asking the U.S. gun lobby for donations.
The community of Parkland, Florida, is focusing attention on its suicide prevention programs after two survivors of the Florida high school massacre killed themselves in a week. Also Monday, police in Connecticut said the father of one of the 20 children slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2002 was found dead in an apparent suicide.
Gun-rights advocates mounted a last-ditch effort Monday to block a federal ban on bump stock-type devices from going into effect Tuesday, saying owners of the devices should be given a temporary reprieve to avoid waking up in violation of federal law.
One of the pioneers of bump stock devices is warning owners not to turn them over to the federal government thoughtlessly ahead of this week’s deadline for doing so under new rules outlawing them.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said Thursday that Democrats are pushing for gun restrictions to “control every aspect of people’s lives.”
The number of federal gun background checks fell 12 percent in February to their lowest level for the month in four years, surprising industry analysts who said the numbers indicate the market hasn’t completely shaken its “Trump slump.”
The New Zealand government on Thursday banned the sale of “military-style semi-automatic rifles,” six days after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch.
Gun-rights advocates are mounting a last-gasp push to block the Trump administration’s bump-stock ban from taking effect Tuesday, saying hundreds of thousands of Americans could suddenly find themselves violating federal law absent action from the courts.
States where rural communities are embracing Second Amendment protection measures include New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, raising the hackles of Democrats who champion sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants but draw the line when it comes to firearms owners.
Conservative commentator and National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch ripped CNN in a series of tweets Tuesday after the network announced it won a Walter Cronkite award for its town hall last year that featured Ms. Loesch and survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case Monday involving one of the D.C. snipers, who is challenging his sentence of life without parole.
A shooting on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday left “multiple” people wounded, police said, adding that they are considering the possibility of a “terrorist motive.” A manhunt was launched for the shooter.
The New Zealand government’s vow to pass stiffer gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosques massacre has produced a run on gun stores, especially benefiting military-style semi-automatic weapons, before any new bans or restrictions can pass.
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday said a lawsuit challenging how Remington marketed the rifle used in the December 2012 Newtown school shooting can proceed, overturning a lower court’s outright dismissal of the case.
Legislation allowing adults to carry a concealed handgun without a permit or training has been signed into law by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin.
A woman was escorted from the Connecticut State Capitol building after someone spotted her writing a text that said she wanted to “blow away” a Republican lawmaker and National Rifle Association members during a public hearing on gun control Monday.
A Democratic Party leader in Maryland is facing calls to resign after he encouraged online trolls to post the personal information of gun rights activists who attended a recent hearing on gun control.
Prosecutors say Coast Guard Lt. Christopher P. Hasson was poised to become one of the worst mass murderers in U.S. history — yet all they have charged him with is possessing a synthetic opioid and owning an illegal gun-silencer.
Two rural Nevada sheriffs are citing the Second Amendment and one is invoking the specter of Nazi Germany in vowing not to enforce a strict new gun background check law just approved by the state Legislature.
The Florida sheriff who was suspended by the governor and accused of failing to prevent the Parkland school shooting filed suit Thursday seeking his job back and alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis improperly ousted him for political reasons.
States that have fewer restrictive gun laws on average see more mass shootings, according to a new study published Wednesday from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
President Trump has failed to convince Americans of the need for his border wall emergency declaration, according to a new poll Wednesday that found they oppose his move by two-to-one.
Legislators sent a bill to expand background checks on private gun sales in New Mexico to the governor’s desk Monday for certain approval after a bruising series of debates and objections from county sheriffs across much of the state.
Police departments across the country increasingly are turning to simulators as training tools to replicate real-world scenarios without real-world costs.
Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, told conservative activists on Saturday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “hates” the gun-rights group and vowed to continue pushing back against the state’s treatment of the NRA.
Rep. Debbie Dingell told colleagues Thursday her father had a mental illness and a gun — and said the combination made her fear for her life when she was a child.
Republicans scored a rare victory in the Democrat-controlled House Wednesday, winning a vote to have authorities notify deportation officers any time an illegal immigrant tries to buy a gun.
The House on Wednesday passed legislation to expand gun-purchase background check requirements to cover virtually all gun sales and most firearms transfers, taking its most far-reaching steps in years on gun control.
More than 75 percent of the people who received gun license revocations last year in Illinois ignored the notices, Illinois State Police said.
Colorado Democrats launched another campaign Thursday to pass a “red flag” gun law - an effort backed by many top law enforcement officials to allow weapons to be seized from people who are determined by a court to pose significant risk.
A Coast Guard officer suspected of drawing up a hit list of top Democrats and network TV journalists spent hours on his work computer researching the words and deeds of infamous bombers and mass shooters while also stockpiling weapons, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will address NRA members at the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) Leadership Forum on Friday, April 26, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is the second consecutive year that the president and vice president will speak at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum.
Proving there is no statute of limitations on political opportunism, this week former President Bill Clinton used the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the tragic school shooting in Littleton, Colo. to pen an op-ed pushing the modern gun control agenda. In doing so, Clinton adopted several of the tired falsehoods that have become attendant to this debate.In recalling a White House conference on school violence that touched upon school shootings in 1999, Clinton noted, “This was a year before Columbine, when our nation did not foresee how increasingly frequent such attacks would become…” This passage is intended to give the impression that school violence and school shootings are common occurrences that have increased since the 1990s. This is not true.
The New York Times – the “paper of record” – reports that “Gun Research is Suddenly Hot.” While we’re happy to see the Times has finally acknowledged that “gun research” can survive federal restrictions on taxpayer funded gun control advocacy, there are necessary caveats here.The volume of “gun violence research” may be increasing, but the field has not been as neglected as the media would have you believe. The Arnold Foundation and the Rand Corporation have partnered on a research venture into firearm-related violence that to date has reviewed thousands of studies published between 2003 and 2016.
When it comes to the wellbeing of today’s youth, one would think that all could agree that provoking unnecessary fear should be avoided. That apparently is not the case, however, when it comes to pushing the narrative that changes are urgently needed to America’s gun control laws to keep schoolchildren safe from an “epidemic” of “gun violence” that is spiraling out of control. The truth is that schools are as safe as they’ve been in the last two decades, yet polls show the public believing the opposite to be true.
Sitting across from him in the Hayden Panera Bread on Prairie Avenue, watching him smile and sip his coffee as he tells his genial backstory in a friendly, mild-mannered voice, it’s easy to forget that Dwight Van Horn is one of the most powerful people you’ll likely ever meet.
