On Mother's Day, May 14, 2000, approximately 750,000 individuals, led by mothers concerned about gun violence, gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC to demand sensible gun laws. Across the country, an additional 150,000 to 200,000 people marched in their own communities.

Marsha McCartney and her family,...

When we talk about making it harder for dangerous people to get guns, we usually focus on felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill. Less often do we think about children in this context.

There are obvious reasons for this, yet a child with a gun poses its own...

The one-year anniversary of a tragic killing from South Bend, Indiana, illustrates many of the weaknesses in our gun laws: in a single incident, we have law enforcement officers being shot and killed, by someone who never should have been allowed to purchase a firearm in the first place, but...

Forcing employers to allow guns at work? This is an idea only the gun lobby could like. Yet it is one they are trying to push into every state and workplace in America at the expense of your safety.

For several years, the NRA had been losing this...

On the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Andy Goddard, the father of one of those injured on April 16, 2007, spoke in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

I felt that Andy's comments were very eloquent and needed to be heard...

Wednesday, April 16, marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, where 32 people were murdered and 17 wounded by an individual who never should have gained access to guns.

Survivors and family members of those killed and injured in that shooting joined students, parents, and concerned...

A couple nights ago we honored several amazing individuals who have stepped forward in the last year to advocate for common-sense gun laws in this country.

The Brady Center awarded Col. Gerald Massengill the James S. Brady Law Enforcement Award for his work as chair of the Virginia...

Robert Novak has an interesting piece in today's Washington Post about Sen. Barack Obama and the Second Amendment case from DC.

If Senator Obama is "doing the gun dance," then he's in step with most of the American people. A recent poll by the Washington Post...

Forty years ago today, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was felled by an assassin's bullet. He was 39.

Robert F. Kennedy, campaigning for president in 1968, was in Indianapolis on the evening of April 4, 1968. The first to tell the crowd the terrible news, he

In the late 1970's, Saturday Night Live ran sketches called "Consumer Probe" or "On The Spot" featuring Dan Aykroyd as the sleazy Irwin Mainway, President of Mainway Toys, Mainway Novelties, or Mainway's Kiddie Funworld, usually being interviewed by consumer reporters played by Candace Bergen or Jane Curtin (as Joan Face).

Twenty-seven years ago, yesterday, on March 30, 1981, a mentally disturbed gunman attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. In the process the shooter wounded a Secret Serviceman, a Washington, DC police officer, and the President's press secretary, James S. Brady.

As we remember that horrible day - and...

The U.S. Department of Justice just released Brady background check figures for 2006, and they show continued success for this life-saving law:

In the three days since oral arguments were held in District of Columbia v. Heller, I've had the chance to reflect on the day's events and develop some perspective.

I was in the courtroom on Tuesday, and counted myself fortunate to have had a ringside seat...

The Brady Law went into effect 14 years ago today, February 28, 1994.

On anniversaries like this, it is important to remember what the Brady Law has accomplished, how effective the law has been at helping reduce gun crime, and how bitterly the NRA fought to kill it...

I wanted to take a moment to let you know about a new addition to the Brady Campaign Web site: the Brady Research Update. The Update will be a regular web feature providing updates on recently published research articles, fact sheets, and other resources.

This new feature now...

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and families touched by the recent gun violence at Northern Illinois University. At a time when the country confronts one mass shooting after another -- six separate multiple murders across the country in just the first two weeks of February -- the...

On Thursday, an individual who had "serious grievances with the city government" in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri brought his gun to the police station and then a City Council meeting and killed five people - first two police officers, then two council members and the public works...

I often hear the argument that we should just "enforce the laws on the books" in order to reduce gun violence. That's important, but we also need to be aware how few laws we "have on the books" and figure out how to make what laws we do have more...

More evidence emerged this month that the gun debate is turning a corner in America.

Only days after signing the first gun control legislation in over a decade, the Bush Administration has now disavowed the most extreme outcomes implicit in the gun lobby's view of the Second Amendment.

Almost everyone agrees that we should make it harder for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons.

As I said in my last blog, we should be willing to put up with a little "red tape" if it helps us avoid more "yellow tape" at crime scenes.

Most Americans believe this,...