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