As Washington runs to-and-fro on firearm legislation, student gun enthusiasts at some universities are taking matters into their own hands by showing their desire for concealed weapons on campus. Here's how the gun lobby inside actual schools is trying — and failing — to set an example, one empty holster at a time.
Sen. Joe Manchin is a reasonable guy. He's not above speaking with local newspapers. Being a big man in Washington has not gone to his head, yet. But he does have one condition before any conversation, and it's kind of a big one: he won't talk if you wanna talk about guns.
The story about the gunman-on-MIT campus hoax called in to Cambridge police Saturday morning took a strange turn Wednesday afternoon. According to a school official, the hoax centered around someone seeking revenge for deceased hacker and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz.
After a big hoopla was made from gun rights advocates over media outlets requesting publicly available information on gun owners, a Gawker FOIA request turned up evidence that the people who request public records on gun owners the most often are the gun rights advocates. We would suggest for very different, selfish reasons, too.
Mike Leara may have finally figured out a way for gun-rights advocates to win the renewed fight on gun-control legislation: introduce a bill on gun-control bills that's too crazy to pass.
Virginia Beach pizza-shop owner Jay Laze is offering a 15 percent discount to anyone who brings in a gun — or concealed handgun permit — to his restaurant, which instantly grabbed the attention of gun-rights advocates across the country.
We've inched toward a bit of closure in what was one of the most heart-breaking stories coming out of this new year.
Attorney Jennifer Lubinski, ended up documenting pretty much the entire horrifying scene on Twitter, and in pretty unprecedented fashion.
In an attempt to spin forward his gun-violence proposals while on the road and away from the rancor of a fired-up Washington, President Obama said in a speech in Minneapolis that legislators need to adopt new measures in order to prevent further gun violence.
With Dianne Feinstein's assault-weapons ban on the table before Congress, Reid's team has chosen a curious time to delete a section of his semi-defunct campaign website touting just how much the NRA approved of his gun-policy beliefs.
Chris Kyle, a retired Navy SEAL who is recognized as the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, was shot and killed at a gun range in Texas on Saturday by a fellow former soldier who he was trying to help overcome post-traumatic stress disorder.
As the nation continues to confront the concept of "good guys with guns" in schools, two types of guards are coming to elementary schools in Newtown, Connecticut.
Arthur Douglas Harmon is the man Phoenix police are looking for as he's believed to have shot three people and killed one at an office complex yesterday—while the Senate hearing on gun violence carried on in Washington.
Maybe it's just another public coincidence since the Newtown massacre, or maybe shootings in safe places occur so frequently these days that it's impossible to hold a public meeting with the NRA without a bunch of people getting shot at the same time.
Showing the least amount of self-awareness on guns this side of the NRA, the West Fargo Hockey Association in North Dakota decided it would be a great idea to raffle off 200 guns to raise money.
It was cold in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, but that didn't stop thousands of people from participating in a gun control march on the Capital.
The vice president's key message was about "gun safety," but he also had some choice words for gun-rights advocates.
In the past few days, police have been able to piece together what happened early Saturday morning when Nehemiah Griego allegedly killed both his parents and his younger siblings with an AR-15 rifle
More details are emerging about Nehemiah Griego, and they add up to a gruesome picture of a teenager with a van packed with guns and a plan to shoot up his local Walmart in New Mexico.
A 15-year-old was arrested Sunday for allegedly killing a family Saturday evening just outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, after using the weapon that's dominated much of the gun control conversation -- the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
You would think a national "Gun Appreciation Day" would go off without a hitch and no one would get shot, right? Wrong.
Meanwhile, at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, emboldened gun owners and high-tech gun makers were watching, as frustrated and determined as ever.
On the day that Obama and Biden are set to reveal their proposals — including a renewed assault-weapons ban — for gun legislation, a rare, behind-the-scenes look at an NRA nominating committee implicates a CEO who made money off the Bushmaster assault rifle used in the Newtown shooting.
The New York governor's much anticipated speech did not outline his gun-control proposals in detail, but behind the scenes, the state legislature is reportedly "within 95 percent of a deal" and could agree on wide-reaching measures by the end of the week.
More than 100,000 people signed an official petition asking the Obama administration to consider deporting the CNN host after his focus on gun control after Newtown, and the White House had some bad news for those people on Wednesday afternoon.
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 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.
The final numbers from the one-day gun buyback in Los Angeles have arrived: 2,037 firearms, including 75 assault weapons and two anti-tank rocket launchers were traded in for supermarket gift cards — no questions asked. But we have so many questions.
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.
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.
When Paul Ryan bought his 10-year-old daughter hunting gear, some may have been shocked, but conservatives responded with pics-or-it-didn't-happen proof that they too have trained their daughters in the use of deadly weapons.
We learned today that the Aurora mass shooting is as big a story around the world as it is in the U.S., but the reaction is not. A headline in Norway's largest newspaper captured the disbelief in other industrialized countries in the wake of the tragedy: "Stricter Firearms Is a Non-Issue Even After Massacre."
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