Numerous media outlets are reporting on shortages of ammunition. Paired with a recent Homeland Security procurement request, rumormongers have claimed the government is buying up ammo. That's not true. And the numbers make that clear.
The attorney general of D.C. has received the complete police investigation into David Gregory's apparently illegal use of a high-capacity magazine clip as a prop on Meet the Press, and will soon decide whether or not it actually has a case.
Christie's media blitz this morning — including the cover of Time — could signal a shift in tone (and policy) for the New Jersey governor and his ever-growing national profile.
Less than a day after Walmart said it was too busy to meet with Vice President Joe Biden and his commission on gun-legislation proposals, the nation's largest gun seller has had a change of heart.
Because, as anyone with half a functioning brain knows, the real threat in our midst is the secret rise of sharia law.
Joe Biden is getting his task force on gun violence off the ground this week and inviting folks to White House for some informational meetings. It's hard to imagine anyone would say no, right?
You do not need to know the physics of how armor-piercing bullets work to have an opinion about whether they should be legal for civilians to buy. But having a basic knowledge about how these guns work is a good thing.
Emerging details and unexpected endorsements have ratcheted up both sides of the debate for what looks to be a major fight over the future of gun legislation. The questions now: What might the new laws look like? And how soon can anything really happen, if at all?
Giffords and her husband have announced a new lobbying effort to fight for more gun control — and this time gun-rights advocates might listen.
After screaming to the Internet that former Rep. Gabby Giffords's visit to Newtown on Friday was some kind of an underhanded political move, Newtown's State Representative DebraLee Hovey is apologizing — and there are a couple big "if"s involved.
According to gun groups who feel threatened by the Obama administration's newfound push for gun-control legislation, January 19 has now been designated "Gun Appreciation Day."
Behind the scenes, Vice President Joe Biden has been working diligently to come up with recommendations for gun reform by later this week, and in a move that will make many gun-control advocates happy, he's been listening to the New York mayor.
If even the cops can realize gun shows near Newtown are a bad idea right now, why are people still holding them there? Or anywhere, for that matter.
The students of Sandy Hook Elementary returned to school Thursday morning, and someone at one of the most prominent nearby newspapers let an advertisement for a local gun show slip by... on the same page as an article about that.
Jeff Flake has become the first GOP Senator to break ranks publicly with the NRA's plan to put armed guards in every school in America. And with Congress set to take up new gun legislation any day now, that could end up being a very big deal.
The Putnam County Clerk says the Journal News's feature on where gun permit owners live is "clearly wrong," and won't release more records without a fight.
A House Democrat will introduce a bill next Thursday limiting high-capacity magazines that lacks GOP support right now, but that supporters hope "would be a smaller concession for gun-rights advocates than a broader assault weapons ban."
The apparent post-Newtown craze for gun-rights activists to transform teachers into gun-class students has arrived, despite the fact that no armed civilian has killed a mass shooter in the past three decades. Here's evidence from around the country.
An inmate in New Jersey managed to shoot three officers early this morning, and details remain unclear, but the incident has already steered the ongoing gun conversation on Twitter today.
The Meet the Press host is actually under investigation for showing a 30-round magazine to the NRA's Wayne LaPierre this weekend, and the prospect of Gregory going to prison is actually making a lot of conservatives very happy.
A newspaper plotted everything on Google Maps, and the reaction over Christmas was swift and national, as the local story was swept up by the already powerful voice of gun owners on social media. Here were their main complaints about getting outed.
On Sunday morning, Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, told the world that armed guards stopped school shootings in Israel. Israel begs to differ.
The proposals and opinions offered by the NRA's Wayne LaPierre at a briefing Friday have been roundly criticized by gun control opponents already, but is he also wrong about the bare facts?
Almost line-by-line, what the NRA chief said at his press conference Friday was posted all over Facebook by anonymous gun lovers since the Newtown shootings. Just look how closely they match up.
On the same day the NRA blamed out-of-date movies and video games as the root cause of mass shootings like Newtown, Bloomberg-backed Demand a Plan released this video.
Perhaps the most talked-about moment from the NRA's already eventful press conference came when Wayne LaPierre called out the "corrupting shadow industry" of video games — then cited 10 year old titles like they were good evidence.
The National Rifle Association broke its post-Newtown massacre silence Friday with a riveting, unflinching press conference in which the NRA Executive Vice President outlined a program to place "armed police officers in every single school in the nation."
The "We the People" section of the administration web site has been flooded with 32 separate petitions since the Newtown shootings, and early Friday the president released a video response as another vehicle for pushing new legislation.
After Newtown, public figures have called not just for more gun control but to find a way to stop glamorizing violence. But some of the most prominent, most serious public figures in America — national politicians — have been glamorizing guns for decades.
Membership is up, they tell us. People are giving more than usual, they say. We'll be back on Friday, they promised. But what's the truth about America's most powerful interest group after the massacre in Newtown?
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Jeffrey Rosen on Robert Bork's legacy, Ezra Klein on what would make a good fiscal cliff deal, Adam Gopnik on gun control, Andres Oppenheimer on Latin America and the Senate, and Timothy Garton Ash on Britain and the EU.
Those following the gun control legislation bubbling up on Capitol Hill must be getting a lot of déjà vu, since similar legislation made its way through Congress 20 years ago.
Obama was right. On the same day the president said at a press conference that a "majority of Americans support banning the sale of military-style assault weapons" and "high-capacity ammunition clips" a new CNN/ORC International poll finds just that.
You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20 first-graders, that the National Rifle Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong.
President Obama's highly anticipated press conference — in which he offered his strongest remarks about new gun legislation since the Newtown shootings, and officially announced a commission to be led by Vice President Biden — wasn't very interesting to the White House press pool. They wanted to talk about the fiscal cliff. Here's an anatomy of the insiders' priority shift.
In a press conference at the White House, the president formally announced a commission led by Vice President Joe Biden to draft a set of "concrete proposals no later than January" — a strong pledge that acknowledged a countrywide debate over the past week.
It may be difficult to look at this many firearms at once after the Newtown shooting, but just think about it: They were all returned, in what's being called an instant gun-buyback boom, and in one of the most dangerous places in America.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Michael Bloomberg on gun control, Matt Miller on gun buyback programs, Lydia DePillis on Instagram, Chris McDermott on the Keystone XL pipeline, and Scott A. Snyder on South Korea's first female president.
On the same day that Obama backed a new ban on assault weapons, the NRA promised to offer "meaningful contributions" after 20 children were gunned down in their elementary school. So, what, you expect a wave of pro-gun control Republicans to suddenly appear?
Four and a half days after a 20-year-old man carried legal guns into a Connecticut elementary school and killed 20 small children, the National Rifle Association spoke out on the Newtown massacre with a brief statement late Tuesday afternoon.
America's favorite data geek has brought his trademark analysis to the newfound gun control discussion today, breaking down what gun ownership in the country looks like numerically.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Obama is "actively supportive" of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bill to reinstate the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004. Will it be enough?
Well here's some more depressing news: adults are stocking up on backpacks lined with "carbon nanotube armor" in the wake of the Newtown massacre, and there's an entire sad micro-industry.
The gun lobby will soon break its public silence on the school shooting, Fox News reports. Here's an early indication of its plan.
There comes a point in every gun control debate when certain people feel the need to establish their Real American bona fides. The funny thing is, these certain people are also from New York City, or worse, Washington, D.C.
Even as reports surface that he has asked his cabinet to look into an assault-weapons ban and that an old Justice Department report may be back on the table, the president could use executive orders to impose some gun restrictions — today.
Jonathan Cohn on the emerging fiscal cliff deal, Frank Bruni on a shooting's aftermath, Jeffrey Toobin on the Second Amendment, Haytham Manna on Syria, and Josh Kraushaar on Tim Scott.
Cerberus Capital Management, which helped created one the nation's largest gun manufacturing conglomerates, has announced it is selling off its investment in the group in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.
The New York Times reported on Newtown residents' thwarted efforts to regulate guns earlier this year. One of our commenters wondered if she should take a firmer stance on gunfire in her neighborhood.
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