Trump urges ban on gun devices like bump stocks
As a grieving Florida community demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in last year’s Las Vegas massacre.
Students head to Florida capital to press for gun law change
A hundred Stoneman Douglas High School students are busing 400 miles to Florida’s capital Tuesday to urge lawmakers to act to prevent a repeat of the massacre that killed 17 students and faculty last week.
Shootings put semi-automatic rifles ads under new scrutiny
The ads leap out from the pages of almost any gun magazine: Soldiers wearing greasepaint and camouflage wield military-style rifles depicted as essential to the American way of life.
GOP, Democratic senators back bill to bolster FBI gun checks
Republican and Democratic senators have joined forces on legislation to strengthen the FBI database of prohibited gun buyers after the Air Force failed to report the criminal history of the gunman who slaughtered more than two dozen people at a Texas church.
Texas massacre is seized on by both sides in gun debate
Gun-rights supporters have seized on the Texas church massacre as proof of the well-worn saying that the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Trump says tougher gun laws not answer after Texas shooting
President Donald Trump says tougher gun laws would not have prevented a mass shooting at a south Texas church, arguing that more restrictions might have led to more casualties.
Cub Scout kicked out after asking lawmaker about gun control
A Cub Scout was kicked out of his den after he questioned a Colorado state lawmaker about her position on gun control and previous comments she made about African-Americans’ health and eating fried chicken.
Effort to restrict ‘bump stock’ draws unlikely supporters
The National Rifle Association have joined the Trump administration and top congressional Republicans in a swift and surprising embrace of a restriction on Americans’ guns, though a narrow one: to regulate the “bump stock” devices the Las Vegas shooter apparently used to horrifically lethal effect.
Some Republicans open to banning ‘bump stocks’ used in Vegas
Senior congressional Republicans said Wednesday they are open to considering legislation banning “bump stocks” like the shooter in Las Vegas apparently used to make semi-automatic rifles perform more like fully automatic weapons.
GOP leaders say no action on gun legislation
Republican leaders made clear Tuesday that Congress will take no action on gun legislation in the wake of the massacre in Las Vegas.
Rule on guns and mentally ill people faces a GOP rollback
In a sign of the new climate taking hold on gun issues under a Trump administration with a Republican-led Congress, a rule to keep guns out of the hands of certain mentally disabled people is on its way to being scrapped.
Marijuana, gun control win at polls
Filling a void created by congressional inaction, voters in a scattering of states tightened gun control laws and approved increases in the minimum wage.
Trump, on defense, blames media for Second Amendment flap
On the defensive once again, Donald Trump is blaming faulty interpretations and media bias for an uproar over his comments about the Second Amendment.
Poll: Young adults support new efforts to curb gun violence
LaShun Roy supports a ban on semi-automatic weapons and more comprehensive background checks.
Clinton, Democrats put gun control at center of convention stage
With mothers of police violence victims on the stage and anti-gun protesters in the streets, Hillary Clinton and Democrats are giving gun control and efforts to curb police violence a starring role at their summer convention.
Poll: Support grows among Americans for stricter gun laws
Americans increasingly favor tougher gun laws by margins that have grown wider after a steady drumbeat of shootings in recent months, but they also are pessimistic that change will happen anytime soon, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
Conservative opposition endangers House GOP gun bill
Conservative opposition put a House Republican gun and anti-terrorism bill in jeopardy Wednesday, delivering an embarrassing slap to Speaker Paul Ryan and his effort to mount a legislative response to last month’s Orlando mass shooting.
Democrats, GOP seem on collision course over gun, terror bills
House Democrats and Republicans seem just as destined for an election-season clash over guns as they did before a Democratic sit-in on the chamber’s floor ushered in lawmakers’ July 4 recess two weeks ago.
Fla. Democrats pushing to toughen gun laws
Florida House and Senate Democrats have submitted enough letters to the Secretary of State’s Office to trigger a poll of members on whether to have a special session related to toughening gun laws following the massacre of 49 club patrons.
Owners of AR-style firearms defend their weapon of choice
Karen Butler still remembers the first time she picked up an AR-15-style rifle a decade ago.
“Quite honestly, I was scared of it,” she recalls.
But as soon as she fired it, she became a fan.