Obama Gun Policy

Obama Called The 'Greatest Gun Salesman In America'

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 02.21.2012

The election of President Barack Obama in 2008 has apparently led to a dramatic increase in the sale of guns and applications for concealed handgun pe...

Sam Stein

Obama To Unveil Gun Control Reforms

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.06.2011

WASHINGTON -- Half a year after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the Obama administration is set to release a series of reforms to ...

Sam Stein

Obama Looking For Ways Around Congress On Gun Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

With Reporting By Lucia Graves WASHINGTON -- Faced with a Congress hostile to even slight restrictions of Second Amendment rights, the Obama admini...

Sam Stein

Obama Administration To Hold Gun Policy Meetings With Goal Of Policy Changes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has conducted informal discussions with groups from both ends of the gun-policy spectrum, including law enforce...

Sam Stein

Two Months After Tucson, Obama Wades Into Gun Control Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.11.2012

WASHINGTON -- Two months after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Tucson, Arizona, President Barack Obama finally wade...

"Pop" Poplawski, the High-Def Hucksters, and the Downward Spiral of Violence

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

Will Bunch

This is how hate talk is increasingly viral in America in 2010. At the bottom of the chain, a cop-killer like Richard Poplawski becomes a hero to a clearly deranged man like Hardy Lloyd. But who were Richard "Pop" Poplawski's heroes?

Sam Stein

Bloomberg Sends Stern Letter To Obama Demanding Gun-Control Action

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- who at one point was considered an Independent ally of the White House but has proven to be a somewhat reliab...

Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Mayhill Fowler

Obama tells Californians it's natural that the economically disenfranchised heartland turns to guns, religion, and xenophobia.

Was Obama Wrong to Veer Right?

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Clothier

Let's acknowledge, bitter though it may be, a majority of Americans would not cast a vote for anyone who did not make public avowals like those Obama made about gun control and the death penalty.

The Obama Problem

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Jason Rosenbaum

The harsh reality is, Barack Obama can and will tack towards the center on issues that are important to progressives during the general election.

Sam Stein

Before Bitter-Gate: What Obama Said Hours Earlier About Guns

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

It is a quintessential example of political irony. Just hours before Sen. Barack Obama uttered his now famous "bitter" comments, suggesting that sma...

Obama Exclusive (Audio): On V.P And Foreign Policy, Courting the Working Class, and Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Mayhill Fowler

Here is the full audio from Senator Barack Obama's fundraiser hosted at a home in Pacific Heights, San Francisco on Sunday, April 6, 2008.