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.
Just as an investigation went to print Monday afternoon — about how the chain is selling in large numbers the same .223-calibre Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six adults in Newtown — the big-box chain removed its big seller.
The latest ABC News-Washington Post poll finds a five-year high in Americans who want stricter gun laws. But how high is that, really?
As the gun debate reaches a fevered pitch, from Washington to Twitter to Newtown and back again, in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings, here is some much needed context.
John Yarmuth joined a long list of Democrats to speak out against gun advocates in the wake of the Newtown shooting, but Yarmuth isn't just any Democrat: he's from Kentucky, he used to be a Republican, and he took on the NRA, head-on.
In a mysterious, confusing case, there are so far very few surprises, but there are already lessons worth learning.
Politicians are more willing to talk about gun control after the Connecticut massacre of 20 first graders and six of their teachers, but is there any chance legislation could pass the House?
Gun control and gun rights have instantly come to dominate the American conversation, but the biggest gun lobby in America has decided to sit this one out — at least on the Internet.
Patrick Radden Keefe on gun control, Molly Redden on Michigan Republicans, Paul Krugman on the deficit, L. Gordon Crovitz on Internet freedom, and Hannah Beech on Japanese elections.
With a nation still mourning the Sandy Hook school shooting, Americans across the country continue to deal with even more public gunfire this weekend, including another shooting at a late night moving screening.
With each passing minute, more heart-breaking details about last week's school shooting pour out of Newtown. Few are as frustrating to read as the story of the town's struggle with gun laws.
Discovered: Recent research findings about gun control, autism, mass violence, and PTSD to help put the Newtown shootings in context.
Illinois was the only state where it was illegal for Average (Licensed) Joes to carry a covered-up weapon in public — until Tuesday, when a federal appeals court struck down the last of America's concealed weapons bans.
As Jon Stewart sees it, the only thing worse than Bob Costas's awkward sermon on Jevon Belcher and gun control are Fox News talking heads talking about how terrible Bob Costas is.
During the halftime segment of Sunday Night Football this week, Bob Costas went long on gun control and the weekend murder-suicide by Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher. Shortly thereafter, #BobCostasLogic was born.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
While gun control and gay rights are very different things, there are a couple of key directives that apply to both: Play political hardball, put your money where your mouth is and reframe the debate to deprive the opposition of fuel.
In all the talk of gun control recently, people like to throw around about America's heavy arms trade. Want to know what it actually looks like? Google has an in-depth interactive showing a history of the legal small arms trade.
Bad news for reformists in wake of the killings in Aurora, Colorado: Most Americans see the massacre as an isolated incident, not emblematic of larger societal problems.
Mitt Romney looks to have committed another gaffe, telling NBC News' Brian Williams in a Wednesday night interview that the Aurora shooting suspect obtained "many of" his weapons illegally, but when you parse his words he's technically correct.
Obama spoke out about gun control for the first time since the Aurora shootings at a National Urban League convention on Wednesday night, and it seems like he's going to lobby for the ban on assault weapons to return.
By now, you can set your watch to a phenomenon that follows nearly every mass shooting in America: A sharp uptick in gun sales.
Hours after the tragic shooting deaths in Aurora, Colorado advocates on both sides of the gun control debate began reciting the same talking points they've reiterated for years.
Bummer. You won't be able "super soaker" water gun to Democratic and Republican National Convention this year, but hey, that concealed 9mm pistol in your jacket is totally fine in the states hosting the conventions, North Carolina and Florida.
If you really want to deeply understand the role guns play in American life, you'll have to read more than just Jill Lepore's "Battleground America" in The New Yorker, but that's still an excellent starting point.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presses on with his crusade for gun law reform, an issue he hopes to bring to a wider audience than ever this Super Bowl Sunday.
The Early Show speaks with a gun dealer who agreed to sell guns undercover
That's about 18 guns lost daily, on average
A closer look at the reassignments following the embarrassing scandal
She disputes the details that she pointed her rasperry-pink handgun at a reporters chest
The proposed pet sales ban is the latest in an alternately noble and ridiculous tradition
A new Senate report claims that 70 percent of guns used in Mexico come from the U.S.
247 people in the government's secretive database bought guns in 2010
Campus safety laws are a slapdash of anti-bullying measures and armed teachers
A six-year old brought a loaded gun to a Houston, Texas school
Apparently they didn't like Hillary Clinton's speech last week
On the Syrian president, government shutdown, and preventing gun violence
White House extends an olive branch; gun rights activists sniff
A look at the issues dividing the two countries and some potential solutions.
Police officials had initially denied an Associated Press request for the list, which has always been private
Other DC bloggers upset they didn't figure it out first
Are firearms too much a part of American life ever to be challenged?
The shooter was apparently quite ill, and yet managed to get an extended magazine. Are new rules to come, or will gun industry lobbyists control the debate?
Four more states allow firearms where alcohol is served
Concealed-weapons permit holders may take their guns to church in August
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