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Pro-Gun Event Seeks To Bring 10,000 People With Loaded Rifles To Washington

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

Pro-gun activists are planning to march from Virginia into Washington, D.C., on July 4 as part of an open carry demonstration that could bring thousan...

John Celock

Lawmakers Advance Statewide Open Carry Gun Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics

A Kansas legislative committee voted Friday morning to advance legislation permitting the open carry of guns statewide, which would nullify ordinances...

John Celock

Lawmaker Aims To Stop 'Pure Lunacy'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.05.2012 | Politics

A newly elected New Hampshire state legislator has proposed legislation to ban openly carrying guns in public buildings. State Rep.-elect Delmar B...

Officers Get A Lesson In Gun Laws

Posted 08.16.2012 | Denver

There is no law in Colorado that prohibits the open display of a gun in public city parks, Colorado Springs Police learned after a man was wrongfully ...

Denver Shootings Highlight Brady Campaign's Call for Stricter Gun Laws

Larry Bodine | Posted 07.22.2012 | Crime
Larry Bodine

Nearly half of all Americans -- 47 percent -- now own firearms. And the killer who gunned down moviegoers in Denver obtained all his weapons legally. Reasonable minds question if it's a good idea to introduce hundreds of millions of firearms into the general public.

Rifle-Toting Teen Found Not Guilty

Birmingham Patch | Laura Houser | Posted 07.12.2012 | Detroit

TROY, MI-- Sean Combs, the Troy 18-year-old arrested for carrying a rifle in downtown Birmingham, was found not guilty Thursday afternoon of brandishi...

Group Brings Guns To Applebee's To Support Open Carry Laws

Posted 03.13.2012 | Home

On Saturday night in Ridley Township, Penn., more than 30 gun owners entered Applebee's, all carrying their weapons. They weren't aiming to bother any...

Oklahoma House Approves Easing Gun Restriction

Posted 03.08.2012 | Politics

By Steve Olafson OKLAHOMA CITY--Law abiding citizens of Oklahoma who want to publicly carry a pistol on their hip or in a shoulder holster may ...

When Buying a Gun Becomes Easier Than Voting

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.05.2012 | Politics
Josh Horwitz

Does anyone seriously believe that the vision of our Founders was that guys who carry a gun on their hips 24/7 are "super-citizens" with greater political rights than senior citizens, minorities, the impoverished?

Fathers, Sons and Guns: An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner

Jackson Katz | Posted 12.31.2011 | Parents
Jackson Katz

"I end the book with a letter to my sons, posing this this sort of dilemma for them to ponder: perhaps the meaning of a son's relationship with his father is a sort of puzzle to be deciphered over a lifetime."

In Gun-Friendly Arizona, There's Still One Place Where You Can't Pack Heat

newyorker.com | Hendrik Hertzberg | Posted 11.20.2011 | Politics

Last Friday morning, in Arizona, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, near Tuscon, there was an unconfirmed report that someone had seen a man who possibl...

California Assembly Bans Open Carrying Of Unloaded Guns

AP | Posted 07.16.2011 | Los Angeles

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Assembly approved a bill Monday to prohibit openly carrying unloaded handguns in public after a debate that ...

NRA's Deadly Agenda Is Out

Paul Helmke | Posted 07.06.2011 | Politics
Paul Helmke

In yet another sign of how out of touch it is with how people interact in a civilized society, the National Rifle Association is apparently so wrapped...

Senate Dems Kill Bill To Make Concealed Carry Permits Optional

Bill to make conceal carry permit optional dies in committee | Tim Hoover | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

A bill that would have made conceal carry permits optional in Colorado died in a Senate committee today at the hands of Democrats. The Senate State...

Closing the "Open Carry" Loophole

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Hoyt Hilsman

In the wake of the Tucson shootings, efforts have begun to repeal "open carry" laws that have been exploited for political purposes by the more extreme elements of the gun rights community.

"Bring Your Gun To The Beach" Day Comes To Hermosa

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

More than a dozen people packing pistols on their hips strolled down the Hermosa Beach strand Saturday, picking up garbage and distributing fliers abo...

Lawmakers Reject Open-Carry Gun Ban

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have made it illegal to carry unloaded guns in public. The Senate nar...

NRA Instructor Shoots Student: What Can We Learn?

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dennis A. Henigan

An individual, who the NRA itself has decided is such an expert in safe gun handling that he can teach a class in it, has now accidentally discharged his weapon in a public place and wounded an innocent person.

Fewer Guns in Public Means More Freedom

Kaile Shilling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Kaile Shilling

Let's be honest: Guns are made for a purpose. People buy guns to have the option of killing someone should the desire or need arise.

Con Games: Sheriffs, Guns, and Whammo

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Michael Conniff

In the Wild West -- out here in Colorado, Arizona, and other homes where the buffaloes roam -- some of the Wyatt Burps in the region are turning a tempest into a Tea Party.

No Guns at Starbucks, at Least at Annual Meeting Today

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Paul Helmke

There won't be any guns carried by the shareholders attending today's annual meeting of the Starbucks Coffee Company. It's not allowed. But guns are still allowed in the company's stores.

Open Carry Equals Open Season?

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Helmke

Americans have for far too long settled minor disputes with lethal firepower, and it's one of the reasons that we continue to reject the vision of America, held by gun rights extremists, as a place where anybody can carry and display any gun.

Starbucks and Guns: Open Danger, Concealed Danger

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dennis A. Henigan

Starbucks' management seems to share the safety concerns of its many customers who feel threatened by the well-armed people now frequenting their stores. But they're too scared to ask them to leave.

NRA Annual Meeting: No Guns Allowed

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Josh Sugarmann

So why is the NRA allowing its leadership, membership, and special guests to be forced to undergo the indignity of being stripped of their guns with little more than a whimper? Well, because to do otherwise would frankly be nuts.

Palin Around with Terrorists' Pals: Sarah Speaks to the NRA

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Cliff Schecter

I was truly honored to have the former demi-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, contact me and ask me to write her speech for today's family-friendly NRA event. Here is an advanced copy of what I came up with.