It is hard to find a federal judge more friendly to "gun rights" than Judge Sam Cummings of Lubbock, Texas. Yet even Judge Cummings refuses to follow the NRA off the cliff of Second Amendment extremism.

Judge Cummings achieved iconic status in the "gun rights" community in 1999 when, in...

Last week, a federal judge in Washington handed the gun industry a painful legal setback in its efforts to prevent the Obama Administration from attacking the highly-profitable trafficking of assault rifles to the Mexican drug cartels.

Judge Rosemary Collyer -- who, incidentally, was appointed by George W. Bush --

For most Americans, the holiday season is about the peaceful enjoyment of family and friends, those who mean the most to us in our daily lives. But even this season of peace knows no respite from the plague of gun violence. For too many Americans, this holiday season will be...

It is now almost one year since Tucson and the nation were traumatized by a gunman outside a Safeway. Six dead, including a nine-year-old girl. Thirteen wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whose courageous steps toward recovery inspire us all. Yet the gunfire continues, in...

The first piece of gun-related legislation to reach a vote in Congress since the Tucson massacre has passed the House and may be taken up soon by the Senate.

Is it a bill to ban the high-capacity assault...

"This kind of pain -- there's no medicine," said the grandmother of Major Heath Kelly, who, along with Christian Riege, Miranda McElhiney, and Florence Donovan-Gunderson, lost his life in the mass shooting at the Carson City IHOP last month.

It's been nine months since the Tucson shooting, in which the U.S. Congress almost lost one of its own -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- to gunfire. And how has the Congress responded to the shooting that so gravely wounded Rep. Giffords, while ending six innocent lives, including that of a...

For the NRA, it was not supposed to be this way. After the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment granted a limited right to have a gun in the home, the NRA bragged that it was just the "opening salvo" in a...

It's no secret that Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry likes guns. What has not been known is how steeped he is in a radical pro-gun ideology that most Americans, and most gun owners, would find puzzling and dangerous.

In the midst of memorial preparations for 9/11 victims, the FBI made public a "credible" threat that appeared timed to further wound our nation.

The information, gleaned from the daring takedown of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, indicates that at least two people may already be in the...

It's back to school time again and college kids are heading to campuses across the country. If the National Rifle Association has its way, "packing" for college will have a whole new meaning....

All Americans join the world community in mourning the horrific loss of life from the Norway terrorist attacks. We can only imagine the void left in the lives of the victims' families. The staggering toll of young lives taken by a gunman at the Utoya youth camp reminds...

The Obama administration has taken a modest, though useful, step toward curbing the torrent of assault rifles flowing from U.S. gun shops into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. Hopefully, it reflects a new willingness by the president to take on the gun lobby.

The Justice Department announced it...

When the Supreme Court, three years ago, issued its landmark Second Amendment ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association said it was only the "opening salvo" in a long legal war to use the courts to dismantle the nation's gun laws....

Do you want your pediatrician to assess existing risks to your child's health, based on the latest scientific knowledge? Do you want your doctor to tell you the truth about those risks, based on the...

Last week, the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a loud and clear message that pandering to gun lobby insanity is far more important to them than national security. A political gift is now dangling in front of the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats. Will they grab it?

From all reports, at its annual convention last weekend in Pittsburgh, the National Rifle Association, as usual, cloaked itself in patriotic themes, claimed special kinship with the Founders, and portrayed itself as the true protector of American values. There was much talk of "freedom". More than anything else, however, the...

Thirty years ago, a disturbed young man with a $22 revolver almost ended the lives of President Ronald Reagan and his press secretary, James Brady. Like other anniversaries of historic events, this one is cause for reflection, particularly about the impact of the shooting on our nation's continuing struggle to...

President Obama has broken his silence on the gun issue. His opinion piece in Sunday's Arizona Daily Star is a meticulously worded effort to define a middle ground on the issue on the president's terms, and then to invite those serious about finding solutions to join him in that...