Intermittently for the past 25 years, the NRA has run a series of ads under the headline "I'm the NRA." Included are celebrities (like Washington Redskins legend John Riggins, cowboy entertainer Roy Rogers, and actor Tom Selleck), politicians, and ordinary members. Each ad profiles the NRA member, quoting the reasons...

When last heard from, Smith & Wesson was gaining public attention from their marketing of a high-powered revolver that could penetrate the body armor most commonly worn by America's law enforcement personnel.

Now the company is working to wheedle its way back into the news cycle with...

Even though the U.S. Supreme Court found that Washington, DC's more than 30-year-old handgun ban violated the Second Amendment, that doesn't mean our nation's capital will soon turn into the handgun Valhalla envisioned by pro-gun advocates.

Is it bad for DC residents? Yes. Is it as bad as it could...

Fifteen months after receiving the "Sport Shooting Ambassador Award" from the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities (WFSA), Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has done his part to make sure that, at least in the U.S., the future for his gun industry friends and their...

When talking to the news media and policymakers, the National Rifle Association never misses a chance to boast of its membership of four million. From news releases to statements by its leadership, this number, virtually by its very utterance, is offered as validation of the organization's mission.

The stunned response -- which through the repetition of cable news has now reached the standard of cliche -- of those in denial about the breadth and depth of gun violence in America is some variant of the statement, "I can't believe it happened here." This is often followed by...

One might think that a cardinal safety rule for gun manufacturers is, "Don't sell loaded guns."

Well, apparently one might be mistaken.

According to an "Urgent Notice" for gun dealers that until today was posted on the web site of firearms distributor Sports South, Inc., and which recently...

That's the conclusion of Second Amendment scholar and Roger Williams School of Law Professor Carl T. Bogus writing on the American Constitution Society's blog on this week's Supreme Court oral arguments on whether the District of Columbia's ban on handguns violates the Second Amendment. Observing the "individual rights" tenor...

As early as next week, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is expected to offer an amendment to S. 2483, the "National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act of 2007," that would stop the enforcement of park service regulations requiring gun owners to keep their guns unloaded and...

Last night Congress passed the "NICS Improvement Act," a bill that in prior incarnations was designed to improve the records available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)--the national system used to screen gun buyers.

Much has been made of the bill's bi-partisan, triangulating support: Democrats! Republicans!...

If the pro-gun Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership has its way, parents across America will soon be sending their kids off to school with the advice "eat your Goody Gun from the back end; never point the muzzle at yourself or...

In June, in the wake of the Virginia Tech mass shooting, newspapers across the country hailed a "compromise" bill that would supposedly increase the number of records submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the database utilized by the Brady background check system when guns are purchased...

The results are in. Everybody agrees violent crime is up, and that gun crime, especially among young Americans, is a driving factor. When even Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is forced to talk about stopping gun violence, you know that things are bad.

Yet while gun crime has gone up...

It's no secret that the Bush administration -- its strings pulled by the National Rifle Association -- has decided that there is no nexus between the easy availability of military style weaponry in the U.S. and the potential for terrorists to obtain military style weaponry in the U.S. Or that...

It's an unbelievably sad commentary that high-profile shootings occur frequently enough that we know the National Rifle Association's rote four-step crisis management response.

One. Don't talk to the press. You don't want the NRA's name associated in the public's mind with mass shootings and the inevitable carnage that results...

Sometimes someone writes about an issue with such simplicity and eloquence that it stops you cold. Adam Gopnik's recent piece in the April 30th New Yorker on the Virginia Tech shooting, excerpted below, is such a piece. I urge all Huffington Post readers to follow the link to the

Contrary to the familiar chatter of the gun industry and the gun lobby, firearms ownership has declined dramatically over the past 35 years. From 1972 to 2006, the percentage of American households that reported having any guns in the home has dropped nearly 20 percentage points: from a high of...

Interested in how cynical the National Rifle Association is in stoking its members' fears? A script reportedly for a video to be played by the organization at its Annual Meeting of Members coming to St. Louis this April offers a rare, if not unpredictable, insight. According to www.hoffmania.com,...

This morning the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in the case of Parker, et al v. the District of Columbia, overturned the District of Columbia's handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds. Under the decision, which is contrary to the overwhelming weight of legal...

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