Nebraska and 37 other states are supporting a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns....
AP | GEMMA CASAS | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gu...
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
The idealistic notion that the United States is not in perpetual conflict with Arabs and Islam, argued by President Obama in Cairo but belied by history, has been dealt a serious setback by Fort Hood.
Paul Helmke | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
At gun shows in 43 states, felons, gangsters, wife-beaters, and the dangerously mentally ill can buy assault weapons, semi-automatic pistols and other firearms with no questions asked.
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
In 1996, after completing his official "NRA Personal Protection Course," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was issued a permit in Virginia to carry a concealed weapon.
Ellen Gill | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
Many residents of Northbrook and the surrounding suburbs are upset about the gun giveaway because it will put more weapons in our neighborhood.
Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, thinks Americans are stockpiling handguns, assault weapons and ammunition because they are going to be "attacked by politicians"?
washingtonpost.com | David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious ...
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
The gun lobby insists that "the people should be trusted to have guns." But it is unwilling to trust the people with the truth about guns.
Paul Helmke | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Last week, Governor Schwarzenegger signed a law that requires handgun ammunition to be treated by retailers in much the same way that cigarettes, cold medicines and even spray paint are treated.
Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
The justices may want to keep this in mind as they weigh Chicago's handgun ban. If illegal handguns are being bought legally, then what really is the ban accomplishing?
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
The absolute she tried to personify -- that owning a handgun will guarantee your safety -- is false.
The Associated Press | Mark Scolforo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Home
LEBANON, Pa. - A soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her h...
Steven Weber | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
And therefore, I will be supporting the same policies which led directly to the current fiscal crisis and everything else related to Ronald Reagan's universally discredited theory of trickle-down economics.
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Although the Chicago handgun ban Supreme Court case involves interesting constitutional issues, even if Chicago loses, such a ruling is unlikely to prove a serious threat to state and local gun regulation across-the-board.
Paul Helmke | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Even if he didn't mean to, I want to thank Senator John Ensign of Nevada for speaking out about the importance of reducing gun violence as a means of addressing America's skyrocketing health care costs.
Cameron Sherber | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy
Tom Gregory | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment
Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.
AP | MARY FOSTER | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can't keep up with the nation's demand for ammunition.
Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages. Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress will pass antigun legislation – even though nothing specific has been proposed and the president last month signed a law allowing people to carry loaded guns in national parks.
Gun sales spiked when it became clear Obama would be elected a year ago and purchases continued to rise in his first few months of office. The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported that 6.1 million background checks for gun sales were issued from January to May, an increase of 25.6 percent from the same period the year before.
"That is going to cause an upswing in ammunition sales," said Larry Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association representing about 5,000 members. "Without bullets a gun is just a paper weight."
The shortage for sportsmen is different than the scarcity of ammo for some police forces earlier this year, a dearth fueled by an increase in ammo use by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Paul Helmke | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
If we want to do something about the 100,000 deaths and injuries from guns that occur every year in this country, we need to learn more about what guns are used in crime and where they come from.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to permit passengers on the Amtrak passenger railroad to transport handguns in their checked baggage. T...
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Is it a stretch to envision President Obama as the Neville Chamberlain of the gun issue? Consider the record so far.
Richard Aborn | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association urged its members yesterday to vote against me in the race for DA. And I couldn't be prouder.
Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
How long will it be before one of those pistol-packing town-hallers, driven to the brink by publicly aired hate-talk, pulls his gun, and then its trigger?
Josh Horwitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
Those who hold the belief that the 2nd Amendment gives them an individual right to take violent action have isolated Jefferson's "tree of liberty" quote in order to justify a radical ideology.
AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago