Obama Guns

Mitt Romney At NRA: Beware Of Obama 'Unrestrained By The Demands of Re-Election'

The Huffington Post | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.13.2012

Speaking at the NRA national convention in St. Louis on Friday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney warned that re-electing President Barack O...

Sam Stein

Romney And The NRA: A 'Diss' Before Embrace

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.12.2012

WASHINGTON -- Two hours before then-Gov. Mitt Romney was to sign a bill outlawing assault weapons and small handguns in Massachusetts, John Rosenthal,...

Obama Virtually Silent On Key Issue

AP | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 11.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- They are fuzzy about some issues but the Republican presidential candidates leave little doubt about where they stand on gun rights. Ri...

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 ...

No Action From Obama On Gun Control In Wake Of Giffords Shooting

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 08.20.2011

WASHINGTON — More than five months after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, the White House has yet to take any new steps on gun viol...

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...

God Not Guns: Tucson Argues For Gun Limits To Reduce Violence

Rev. Chuck Currie | Posted 05.25.2011

Rev. Chuck Currie

The question for people of faith is where we place our trust: with God or guns?

Amanda Terkel

Obama Will Be Jumping Into Gun Control Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Although President Obama avoided talking about the contentious issue of gun control in Tuesday's State of the Union address, his top adv...

What Obama Should Have Said in Tucson but Lacked the Courage to

Niall O'Dowd | Posted 05.25.2011

Niall O'Dowd

If we hire a gardener or nanny we make background checks. If we hire a new employee we seek references. The act of buying a gun, a lethal weapon, should not be open to any less scrutiny.

Sam Stein

Gibbs Noncommittal On Post-Shooting Gun Control Measures

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, briefing reporters for the first time since the Tucson shootings, was noncommittal when asked ...

Sam Stein

Gun Control Advocates Push To Counteract Second Amendment Activists

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Gun control advocates, including relatives of individuals killed in two of the most notorious incidents of school-related gun violence, are making a m...

Sam Stein

Obama And Congress Pressured By Mayors To Take Action On Guns

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

A new ad campaign from a coalition of mayors who support gun control cites the shootings at Fort Hood as a reason for President Barack Obama and cong...

The Emerging Obama Doctrine

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011

Christine Pelosi

At Obama's press conference at the Summit of the Americas, the president discussed economics, narco-terrorism, and guns -- and showcased a new direction in American regional partnerships.

A Nation Clinging to Guns

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Stephen Herrington

Why exactly do we need firearms? A gun will not insure that you do not lose your job to an international merger or international competition. A gun will not get you a raise.

Obama: Don't Stock Up On Guns

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

As gun sales shoot up around the country, President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and stock up befo...

Safety Through Guns: Are You Crazy... Or Am I?

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.17.2011

Sharon Glassman

if a bad guy had wandered hrough the street, pillowcase over shoulder at high noon, a host of adults would have called the local precinct for action. This was, clearly, what a concerned citizen should do. Taking the law into your own hands made as much sense as performing your own tonsillectomy.

Did Gun Sales Really Spike Because of the Election? Not Really, it Turns Out.

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 05.25.2011

Joshuah Bearman

I thought all those stories about the bang up business at gun stores after Obama's win sounded hokey. And they are.

What President Obama Can Do to Reduce Gun Violence

John Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

John Rosenthal

Obama should implement seven initiatives that will have an immediate impact on reducing gun violence without having any negative impact on responsible and law abiding gun owners.

Sam Stein

McCain Camp Raises Bittergate In Latest Robocall

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

The McCain campaign is out with yet another scathing anti-Obama robocall, this time attacking the Illinois Senator for his notorious "bitter" comments...

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.

Sam Stein

AFL-CIO Mailer Touts Obama On Guns, Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

The AFL-CIO is blasting out a new mailer to its members, trumpeting Barack Obama's credentials on a key issue of the day -- job creation -- and a pote...

Biden: Obama "Ain't Taking My Shotguns... If He Tries To Fool With My Beretta, He's Got A Problem"

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. Barack Obama better not mess with his running mate Joe Biden's guns...or else. In an out-of-nowhere attempt to re-assure a southwestern Virginia...

Why the Left Doesn't "Get" Obama

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Clothier

Flexibility and openness is Obama's way forward, and it's the kind of politics he has been championing from the beginning -- the kind of politics, let's remember, that had us all chanting, "Yes, we can!"