James Cap, Paralyzed Man, Can Have Guns: Judge
SOMERVILLE, N.J. — A New Jersey judge says a quadriplegic blocked from buying a gun to go hunting has the right to bear arms even though he will...
SOMERVILLE, N.J. — A New Jersey judge says a quadriplegic blocked from buying a gun to go hunting has the right to bear arms even though he will...
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"?
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...
Michael R. Bloomberg | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
New York City sent investigators with hidden cameras to seven gun shows across Ohio, Tennessee and Nevada, and we found out just how easy it is for criminals and the mentally ill to walk in and buy guns -- no questions asked.
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.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Households with guns are 11 times more likely to use those guns to commit suicide than for self defense. But to be fair, we don't just kill ourselves, we kill others, a lot.
Mike Quigley | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago
The Supreme Court has agreed to review McDonald vs. City of Chicago, a case that challenges whether or not our local handgun ban is legal. It is a development that deeply concerns me.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says it will take up a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns, opening the way for a ruling that could set off a ...
AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A candidate to be South Carolina's next National Guard leader skipped the fiery speeches for firepower, launching his campaig...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to permit passengers on the Amtrak passenger railroad to transport handguns in their checked baggage. T...
Minnesota Independent | Chris Steller | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
Packing two pistols, a Rogers man with a Twin Towers tattoo on his arm spent seven hours Saturday among protesters outside Target Center, where Presid...
Josh Horwitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
Those who hold the belief that the 2nd Amendment gives them an individual right to take violent action have isolated Jefferson's "tree of liberty" quote in order to justify a radical ideology.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Here's the bottom line: there are only two reasons for carrying a gun in America -- to protect yourself or go hunting. There is no valid reason for carrying a gun to these town hall meetings.
David Sirota | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
The rise of gun-toting protesters at town hall meetings has put citizens' right to bear arms in direct conflict with their right to attend public political meetings without fear of physical retribution.
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
It is important not to treat these incidents of public gun-carrying as merely the misguided behavior of a few. It is more than that; the acting out of central tenets of the extremist "gun rights" ideology.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Assault rifles haven't replaced placards yet outside presidential townhalls on healthcare reform, but their emergence serves as another disturbing symbol of where political discourse is heading.
Robert Koehler | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
We must check our weapons, but not our ideas, as we enter the debate.
The Hill | Jordy Yager | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restriction...
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The Second Amendment granted the right to bear arms -- not to be idiots.
Josh Horwitz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Armed protesters have made it clear that individual safety is not their primary concern -- instead their show of force at public events reminds elected officials that, in their view, armed citizens have the final say.
The Washington Independent | DAPHNE EVIATAR | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
We now know that there were two men who openly carried assault rifles -- CNN reports they were AR-15s -- outside the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in ...
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
So is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they adopted the Second Amendment---that anyone or everyone (with few exceptions) could stand along a presidential parade route armed with a handgun!
Josh Horwitz | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Exhortations to take armed political action against Obama reflect a deeply developed ideology that has been actively promoted by gun lobby groups for 30 years.
AP | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York