If you think the real America means guns and motorcycles, snowmobiles and beauty contests, this pistol-packin' Momma's for you.
AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
PHILADELPHIA — A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is su...
Paul Helmke | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
When the National Rifle Association asks its members for their next contribution, they might want to disclose how much of that money will be spent to spy on gun violence victims and their families.
Mother Jones | James Ridgeway, Daniel Schulman and David Corn | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist. Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection. They are the same person. A Mother Jones...
Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
The Second Amendment has always put me in a quandary, but Scalia's opinion was not an honest attempt at sorting it out. It was a sophistical, political decision of just the type that he rails against.
Orlando Sentinel | Scott Powers and Jason Garcia | Posted 07.12.2008 | Business
Walt Disney World employees won't be packing any heat in the company parking lots anytime soon. The giant resort has declared that much of its sprawl...
Paul Helmke | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Now that gun confiscation is off the table, maybe we can start finding some areas of agreement that will help make us all safer.
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year's presidential campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying B...
Adam Freedman | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
So much for Scalia's much-vaunted "originalism," which advocates reading the Constitution as it would have been understood at the time of the Founding.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.06.2008 | Home
If you think the California wild fires have been intense, stay tuned as the Second Amendment posse works to strike down, and undo, every piece of gun control legislation, and as many restrictions, rightful or otherwise, on handguns, and firearms, as they can, and rest assured with support from John McCain.
Diane Dimond | Posted 07.06.2008 | Home
Earlier this month the ATF quietly revealed that the owners admitted a substantial part of their inventory was either "missing, lost or stolen." After adding it all up the ATF concluded that, collectively, those registered gun dealers "lost" 82 firearms every single day!
Paul Helmke | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
When the dust settles, most Americans -- and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement -- will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.
The Hill | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Republicans believe Thursday's Supreme Court ruling striking down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban has revived gun rights as a campaign issue, benefiting...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
While the gun lobby may crack open that bottle of champagne, this is a victory that thrives in theory, but one that, in practice, can only be condemned.
Joyce Lee Malcolm | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
A government that cannot protect people should not deprive them of the right to protect themselves -- and the the D.C. gun ban did just that.
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
In its ruling, the Court brushed away our nation's history of mass shootings, assassinations, and unparalleled gun violence and accepted an abstract academic argument with dangerous real-world results.
James Jacobs | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Today's Heller decision marks the biggest triumph so far for gun rights advocates. It establishes what was for so long denied, and the the gun control debate will never be the same.
Sanford Levinson | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
If Scalia and Stevens were competent historians, then it might be worth reading what they write. But they are not. Both offer selective readings of history to support what seem to be pre-determined positions.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
In the wake of today's Supreme Court ruling, the Bush administration has announced that it's ordering all citizens of voting age to possess firearms as a preventive measure against terrorist attacks.
Adam Winkler | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
There are some striking similarities between the Heller decision and Bush v. Gore. In both cases, the Court articulates a "new" right to be recognized by the Courts.
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Does the right to keep and bear arms apply directly to the People or to the States? How you answer this question ultimately determines whether or not you believe in an individual's right to own a gun.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming th...
Paul Helmke | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
The gun lobby made "guns-on-campus" bills a big priority across America this year, and what do they have to show for it? A goose egg.
Los Angeles Times | Noam Levey | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
Eight years after a national debate over gun control helped keep Democrat Al Gore out of the White House, the National Rifle Assn. and its Republican ...
Paul Helmke | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
As an ordained minister, Rev. Smith also founded a project to to encourage congreagations to see gun violence prevention as a ministry in their communities.
Erica Jong | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics