Health Care Costs and Gun Violence
Congress could save billions of dollars in preventable health care costs by reducing gun violence simply by requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales in the US.
Congress could save billions of dollars in preventable health care costs by reducing gun violence simply by requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales in the US.
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 12.13.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A machine pistol used by a street hustler and aspiring rapper shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased from a Virginia gun ...
AP | ERIK SCHELZIG | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their wea...
Paul Helmke | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
it is time for Congress to start listening to the American people -- including NRA members and gun owners -- instead of responding to the dictates of NRA bosses.
LiveScience | Posted 12.11.2009 | Technology
A new technology may make it easier for gun owners to improve their marksmanship. Opti-sight, a new pistol-aiming device, was developed to reduce t...
Paul Helmke | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
We want security not only for the president and our top officials, but also for ourselves and our families. Yet as a nation we make it very easy for dangerous people to arm themselves.
Tom Dunkel | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
With health care legislation on the road to nowhere, President Obama might be better off focusing his attention on the possibility of a nuclear-powered Goldman Sachs.
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
It seems apparent that, at least as to Lethal Logic, the Amazon customer views function more as a forum for the gun control debate than a forum for a debate about the book.
nytimes.com | KAREEM FAHIM | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York
At City Hall, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other officials announced they had broken up an illegal gun-sales operation in Brooklyn, while in Times S...
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...
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.
AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home
DRIGGS, Idaho — An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at ...
Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...
Louis Klarevas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
I no longer wonder "if" a Mumbai-style attack will occur in the U.S. Absent the implementation of serious gun control measures, I now ask "when"?
Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
America leads the developed world for murders committed using firearms, with a rate of 0.0279271 per 1,000 people, according to UN reports from 2000. ...
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media
With unwitting but impeccable timing, the sole banner advertisement prominently emblazoned on Drudge Thursday was the image of a discharged member of the military brandishing his M16 rifle.
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 ...
AP | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Two New York City men have been charged with trying to provide weapons, ammunition and vehicles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbol...
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.
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...
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.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
The United States is one of the few industrialized countries without common-sense controls on gun sales. We regulate toy guns but not the real ones that kill tens of thousands every year.
John Rosenthal | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics