One month later and an additional 22 bodies.

That's the latest tally from the Violence Policy Center's new on-line resource Concealed Carry Killers, which we launched last month to begin tracking killings by private citizens issued permits to carry concealed handguns resulting in murder-suicides, fatal accidents,...

"As we get more information about right-to-carry, our point is made again and again ... People who get permits in states which have fair right-to-carry laws are law-abiding, upstanding community leaders who merely seek to exercise their right to self-defense."

Tanya Metaksa, executive director
NRA Institute for...

How the FN Herstal Five-seveN pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting--originally designed as a military-only handgun/ammo combination capable of piercing the body armor worn by soldiers on the battlefield--came to be sold on the U.S. civilian market is a stark example of the increasing militarization of the U.S. civilian...

The murder-suicide involving Pennsylvania mother of three Meleanie Hain -- who gained national note and pro-gun fame as the result of a legal battle stemming from the revocation of her permit to carry a concealed handgun by local law enforcement after she openly carried a loaded Glock 9mm pistol to...

Louisiana, with a rate of 2.53 per 100,000, ranks first in the nation in the rate of women murdered by men according to a new report issued today by my organization, the Violence Policy Center (VPC). "When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2007 Homicide Data" details...

Is it beyond ironic when a gun company that's made its fortune marketing handguns to law enforcement finds itself and its one-time employees mired in a web of alleged criminal activity that includes money skimming, illegal campaign contributions, and even murder?

Well, yeah.

And the fact that the head...

Does the NRA support puppy mills?

That's the question asked earlier this year by Miami Herald general assignment reporter Ellie Brecher in the newspaper's blog Crazy for Critters citing the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS):

The Humane Society writes:

The...

George Sodini, the man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh LA Fitness health club on Tuesday killing three women and wounding nine others -- including the pregnant fitness instructor -- before turning a gun on himself, is at least the sixth person licensed to carry a concealed handgun to commit...

After more than two decades, at noon today the gun lobby's efforts to enact a national concealed handgun law will have its first chance at success when the U.S. Senate votes on an amendment sponsored by South Dakota Senator John Thune to the defense authorization bill (S. 1390) that would...

For more than two decades a top priority of the gun lobby has been establishing and expanding state laws that allow the carrying of concealed handguns by private citizens. These "shall issue" laws eliminate the discretion of local law enforcement and licensing agencies to determine eligibility for permits to carry...

According to Jan Libourel, the editor of Gun World magazine, "Nobody but a madman would oppose some sort of gun control laws."

Libourel is no gun grabber in disguise. The statement, in a column titled "Panic Attack," comes after his personal observation, "It is true that the Democratic Party has...

President Obama's signing of a bill granting the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over the tobacco industry now leaves the gun industry as the last American industry not regulated for health and safety.

Let me repeat. Guns are now the only consumer product manufactured in America not...

A new study released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that "Over 90 percent of the firearms seized in Mexico and traced over the last 3 years have come from the United States" and that "the firearms seized in Mexico have been increasingly more powerful and lethal...

James von Brunn is the most recent addition to the list, in the words of National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre, of "guys with the guns who make the rules."

Before him, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, arrested for shooting two soldiers, killing one, outside an Arkansas military recruitment center....

What do Scott Roeder, the alleged killer of abortion doctor George Tiller, Richard Poplawski, arrested in April for ambushing four police officers in Pittsburgh, killing three and injuring one, and Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association all have common?

They all believe that "

If the champagne being quaffed by consumer groups and others in the wake of House passage of a bill aimed at limiting deceptive and abusive credit card practices has a slightly bitter aftertaste, it's probably because they're sharing a magnum with the National Rifle Association. In its ongoing efforts to...

During the past 100 days, our nation has once again been shown the "price of freedom" as defined by the National Rifle Association.

Increasing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border -- much of it fueled by semiautomatic assault weapons purchased on the U.S. civilian market and trafficked into Mexico.

Washington Post, April 19, 2009

In a recent "commentary" posted on CNN.com, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre dismissed statements from U.S. and Mexican government officials that, based on firearms tracing data from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Mexico's drug cartels obtain 90 percent or more of...

According to National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, gun owners are uniting in "political spontaneous combustion."

Ouch.

In the most recent edition of the NRA's America's 1st Freedom magazine, LaPierre cites a "tsunami of Second Amendment consumerism" in the wake of the election of Barack Obama and...