Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court has declined to hear yet another Second Amendment case.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

Stephen Paddock’s crime was clearly terrorizing, and will impact the lives of survivors, families, first responders in many ways for a long time. Based on the currently available evidence, though, the Las Vegas shooting was not “terrorism.”

A Federal Appeals Court has declined to review a panel decision striking down the District of Columbia’s restrictive concealed-carry law.

Not surprisingly, the District of Columbia is seeking review of last month’s decision on its concealed-carry law by the full Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

“Why the hell would we do that?” — White House official.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the District of Columbia’s restrictive concealed-carry law.

The Supreme Court has once again declined to hear an appeal in a Second Amendment case.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Maryland’s ban on certain so-called “assault weapons,” but it’s unclear if the Supreme Court will even take up the case.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

Continuing a pattern that began six years ago, the Supreme Court has again declined to hear an appeal in a case involving a challenge to state gun control laws.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

A Connecticut Judge has allowed a lawsuit against the manufacturer and seller of the weapons used in the Sandy Hook Shootings to go forward, but a Federal Law appears to make dismissal inevitable.

Just days before a high stakes primary in New York, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed over familiar themes in their latest debate.

The gun control regulations to be announced later today by President Obama later today amount to far less than the hype would lead you to believe.

The Supreme Court has declined to accept an appeal challenging a law barring certain types of so-called ‘assault weapons’ in a Chicago suburb.

The probability that the shootings in San Bernardino were at least inspired by ISIS and/or other Jihadist terror networks is increasing.

No, there really haven’t been 355 ‘mass shootings’ since January 1st. Not unless you’re relying on completely unreliable data.

Virginia Democrats tried to capture control of the Virginia State Senate by, in part, emphasizing gun control issues. The fact that they failed is instructive.

Two new polls show that political efforts to enact more stringent gun control at the national level are not likely to succeed.

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.

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.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

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.

Just over one year ago, Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds was attacked by his son, revealing problems with our mental health system that have yet to be adequately addressed.

The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?

Cowardice. There really isn’t any other word for it.

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.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

A gun rights victory at the ballot box in Colorado.

Time to “pivot to the economy” again.

Low voter priorities and the natural tendency of the media to move on to the next big story meant that gun control was not going to be a top political issue for long.

Gabby Giffords writes an emotional diatribe filled with non sequiturs that does nothing to advance the debate.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Boston, so maybe it’s time to stop speculating.

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.