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Virginia Democrats’ push for new gun controls is having a major ripple effect hundreds of miles south in Florida, where at least 10 counties, fearing their state could be next, have declared themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries.”
FBI agents on Thursday arrested a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who are linked to a violent white supremacist group and were believed to be heading to a pro-gun rally next week in Virginia’s capital.
The National Rifle Association, after shedding its president and top lobbyist this year amid a string of internal disputes and legal battles, finds itself at a crossroads with Republican politicos wondering whether the group is still high powered or a campaign dud.
The National Rifle Association, after shedding its president and top lobbyist this year amid a string of internal disputes and legal battles, finds itself at a 2020 crossroads with Republican politicos wondering if the group is still high powered or a campaign dud.
USA Today felt the wrath of the Twitter ratio Wednesday after tweeting an op-ed that declared it’s “terrifying” that multiple people were able to respond to Sunday’s Texas church shooting with their own firearms.
President Trump on Tuesday applauded the volunteer security guards who stopped a gunman attacking the congregation at a Texas church.
A man accused of storming into a rabbi’s home and stabbing five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City was raised to embrace tolerance but has a history of mental illness, his family said.
A gunman who killed two people during a Texas church service was fatally shot within seconds by armed congregants, said Texas officials, who hailed the state’s gun laws that allow weapons in places of worship.
A stalker shot and killed her husband in a so-called gun-free zone. Now Nikki Goeser is worried that another gun control measure widely gaining popularity will result in other firearms owners being victimized.
Baltimore could wrap up 2019 with its highest per-capita homicide rate on record as killings of adults and minors alike for drugs, retribution, money or no clear reason continue to add up and city officials appear unable to stop the violence.
Police say two shooters opened fire on a crowd outside a hookah lounge in Baltimore, wounding seven people.
A Florida homeowner killed a masked intruder during a gunfight inside his home, police said.
A shooting at a house party early Sunday on Chicago’s South Side wounded 13 people, four of them critically, Chicago police said.
A man convicted of kidnapping a Wisconsin girl and killing her parents told police after his arrest that he never thought Jayme Closs would escape because she was petrified, and that after holding her captive for two weeks, he believed he’d get away with his crimes, according to a transcript of a police interview.
A deadly shooting at a city building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was an act of “workplace violence” by one city employee who targeted a co-worker he’d disliked for a long time, police said Friday.
A shooting that wounded one person in a mall food court sent suburban Atlanta shoppers fleeing in panic Saturday.
Newtown marked the seventh anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School with vigils, church services and a moment of joy when the community’s high school football team - with a shooting victim’s brother as linebacker - won the state championship Saturday in a last-minute thrill.
Officials from states with strong gun restrictions have called for stricter firearm control in places with weaker laws to thwart traffickers, but the fatal attack on a Jewish market in New Jersey shows how fruitless those efforts can be.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib deleted a tweet Thursday morning that blamed “white supremacy” for the mass shooting this week at a kosher supermarket in New Jersey.
Fears that a deadly shooting at a Jewish market in Jersey City was an anti-Semitic attack mounted on Wednesday as authorities recounted how a man and a woman deliberately pulled up to the place in a rental van with at least one rifle and got out firing.
The mayor of a New Jersey city said Wednesday that authorities believe gunmen targeted a kosher market during a furious shooting that killed six people and filled the streets with the sounds of heavy gunfire for hours just across the Hudson River from New York City.
Police officers were shot Tuesday in the Jersey City standoff that left a neighborhood, including a school, on lockdown, authorities said.
The Saudi Royal Air Force lieutenant who shot to death three U.S. sailors Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola is believed to have accused the U.S. of being anti-Muslim on Twitter before the attack, which the FBI says is being investigated as an “act of terrorism.”
A Saudi Arabian aviation student killed three people and wounded at least seven others at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning, officials said, and the assailant was later shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies who responded to the scene.
A U.S. sailor shot three civilians with his service weapon, killing two of them, before taking his own life at Pearl Harbor, just days before thousands descend on the storied military base to mark the 78th anniversary of the Japanese bombing that propelled the United States into World War II.
Former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made his pet issue of gun control a priority for his presidential campaign Thursday, building off more than a decade worth of work since leaving office in what was his campaign’s first major policy rollout since announcing his candidacy last week.
A Democratic Senate candidate looking to unseat Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst unveiled a bizarre campaign ad Thursday that appeared to show Ms. Ernst shooting a gun at him.
A Florida woman bought her friends what she thought was a baby bouncer at Goodwill as a baby shower gift, but when her friends opened the sealed box, they found a semi-automatic rifle instead.
A sailor killed two people Wednesday afternoon at the iconic Pearl Harbor base before fatally turning his gun upon himself.
Jackson State University’s campus was placed on lockdown Wednesday after an active shooter was reported there.
George Zimmerman, the man acquitted for the 2012 fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin while he was on neighborhood watch, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the boy’s family, their attorneys and prosecutors for damages of more than $100 million.
The Supreme Court heard the first challenge to the Second Amendment in nearly a decade Monday, raising party-line concerns about New York City’s restrictive ban on transporting firearms.
The Supreme Court on Monday is set to hear its first major Second Amendment case in nearly a decade, weighing a challenge against a regulation in New York City that prevented licensed firearm owners from taking their weapons into and out of the city.
Detroit area gun owners say a new ordinance putting them at risk for jail time has the practical effect of “totally absolving the criminals” who steal firearms from vehicles.
A woman who was fatally shot by her estranged husband in an elementary school parking lot had been sitting in the minivan with her mother and her three young children, the woman’s family said in a post on a fundraising website.
Authorities say a man shot two people in a Vancouver, Washington, elementary school parking lot and then shot himself after a police chase.
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Police are looking for an attacker who opened fire at a Central California mall, slightly wounding two people.
Deputies arrested a 13-year-old boy and seized a semi-automatic rifle after he threatened to shoot other students and staff at a Los Angeles-area middle school, authorities said Friday.
Federal agents Friday arrested a former San Diego sheriff’s captain accused of running a gun trafficking business and charged a deputy who had access to weapons restricted for law enforcement.
A California woman who was severely injured in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting died Friday, possibly making her the 59th victim of the attack depending on the final autopsy report.
Two men and a woman were fatally shot Monday outside a Walmart store in southwestern Oklahoma, the chief of police said.
Four people were killed and six more wounded when “unknown suspects” sneaked into a backyard filled with people at a party in central California and fired into the crowd, police said.
Six men have been charged after a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that critically wounded a 10-year-old boy and sent players and the packed crowd fleeing in panic.
Filmmaker Michael Moore says he has “no prayers” to offer for “strangely frightened” Americans in the wake of the Saugus High School shooting.
A Wisconsin county declared itself a Second Amendment sanctuary this week, sending a message to “keep your hands off our guns.”
People who knew the 16-year-old boy suspected of killing two students in a burst of gunfire at a high school outside Los Angeles described him as a quiet, smart kid who they’d never expect to turn violent.
The city of Baltimore has reached 300 homicides in a year for the fifth year in a row.
Two people were killed and several others were injured Thursday during a shooting at a Southern California high school and the student gunman was in custody, authorities said.
Walmart has quietly hired off-duty officers at its stores in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman police say targeted Mexicans opened fire in a store in August and killed 22 people.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday a new initiative aimed at combatting gun violence that emphasizes stepping up gun-related prosecutions, cracking down on banned buyers and strengthening federal record-sharing.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a lawsuit against Remington Arms Co. brought by victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting who want the gunmaker held responsible for the deadly attack.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday slammed proposed mandatory gun buybacks as “essentially confiscation.”
New Zealand’s government on Monday proposed legislation to ban certain criminals from being anywhere near guns even if they don’t own them, a measure that politicians acknowledge has significant human rights implications.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC) has announced a survey to gather information from the public relating to Sunday hunting on public lands.
On Thursday, January 23, NRA’s State Association, The Rhode Island 2nd Amendment Coalition, will be hosting a pro-gun rally at the State House in the Rotunda.
On Thursday, January 16th, the Virginia Senate voted to pass three of the anti-gun bills that the Senate Judiciary Committee approved on Monday. The fight is far from over! Dozens of other gun control bills from Michael Bloomberg’s wish-list have still not been taken up by a committee. Second Amendment supporters have demonstrated an unprecedented showing in support for our rights. It is critical that law-abiding citizens not back down and remain ready to oppose this agenda at every turn.
This week, Assembly Bill 503 failed to pass out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee on a party line vote. AB 503, sponsored by Assembly Member Heath Flora (R-12) would have allowed an individual with a valid concealed carry weapons license to carry to, from, or in a church, synagogue, or other place of worship on the grounds of a public or private K-12 school when the individual has the written permission of the school authority.
On Tuesday, January 21st, at 10AM, the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee will consider several anti-gun bills that would severely restrict the Constitutional Rights of law-abiding Washingtonian citizens. This hearing comes just one day after the Senate Law & Justice Committee will hear testimony on numerous other gun bills. Testimony will be limited to 90 seconds per person and House Bills 2240 and 2241 will be heard together.
