A new poll shows an up-tick in public support for some gun control measures, but gun control advocates can’t ignore the political reality that says those restrictions are unlikely to ever become law.
In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Oregon, President Obama took the airwaves to offer the same empty rhetoric he has on this issue in the past, and to make the false claim that there are simple solutions to what is a very complex problem.
Up to 13 people are dead and as many 20 injured after another mass shooting on a college campus.
A reporter and cameraman for a local television station were killed, and a third person wounded, live on the air this morning.
New information in the Dylann Roof case shows that the background check system used for gun purchases is still prone to human error.
Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.
PolitiFact rates President Obama’s claim that other countries don’t have mass shootings at rates comparable to America”Mostly False.”
In a setback for the gun rights movement, the Supreme Court has let stand a San Francisco law that places tough restrictions on handgun ownership.
A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,
Legislators in Tennessee have taken the “gun rights” argument further than it was ever intended to go.
The families of many of the Sandy Hook victims are seeking to have the manufacturer of the AR-15 held legally responsible for what happened. While understandable, their lawsuit is misplaced and largely without legal merit.
As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.
After spiking in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, gun control has faded back into obscurity as an issue voters care about significantly.
New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.
In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.
Target is the latest business to ask customers to leave the guns at home when they go shopping.
There’s been far too much hysteria and hyperbole when it comes to ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws.
The Supreme Court, unsurprisingly, ruled that lying on a Federal form about a gun purchase is, in fact, a crime.
The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?
The Second Amendment isn’t broken, and you don’t fix things that aren’t broken.
Yesterday afternoon’s shooting spree at Fort Hood appears to be a related to post-traumatic stress.
Another Circuit Court finds that the Second Amendment protects a right to carry a weapon in public.
A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.
The likelihood of any action on gun control in 2014 is extremely limited
Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.
I’m happy that these incidents are so rare. But I can’t explain why it’s so.
Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.