gun control

With control of the Senate at stake, gun rights groups are pouring millions of dollars in outside spending into the Jan. 5 runoff election in Georgia.

Efforts to impose restrictions on firearms will soon have a supporter in the White House.

NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports on the city’s homicide total already exceeding last year. They are, however, making some progress in preventing future crime, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.

Ten Philadelphia residents filed a lawsuit against the Republican-controlled state Legislature demanding municipalities like Philadelphia be given the right to enact local gun control measures.

Marcel McClinton, who survived a mass shooting outside his church as a teenager, helped organize the March for Our Lives Houston rally when he was 16. And when he was just 17, he launched a bid for a seat on the Houston City Council. While it was unsuccessful, he forced the race to a runoff. Now this gun control activist...

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines

Is the American Dream losing its shine? The New York Times interviewed Europeans about everything from our parental leave policies to our health care to our diets. They weren’t always impressed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is banning the use and trade of assault-style weapons immediately

Background checks required to buy firearms have spiked to record numbers in the past month, fueled by a run on guns from Americans panicked about their safety during the coronavirus crisis.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to fire rapidly like machine guns

The Democratic presidential candidates are universally in favor of some form of gun control

An unprecedented show of force by gun-rights activists is expected on Monday in Virginia. Thousands of gun activists are expected to turn out. Second Amendment groups have identified the state as a rallying point for the fight against what they see as a national erosion of gun rights. Authorities in Virginia are taking precautions since extremist groups have blanketed social...

Chief Justice John Roberts appeared Monday to be the key vote in whether the Supreme Court considers expanding gun rights or sidesteps its first case on the issue in nearly 10 years. The court’s dismissal of the case would be a disappointment to gun-rights advocates and a huge relief to gun-control groups. Both sides thought a conservative Supreme Court majority...

Democrats from Virginia’s House of Delegates have nominated Eileen Filler-Corn to be the first female Speaker of the House in state history.

Following recent mass shootings across the country and citing gun deaths closer to home, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order meant to curb gun violence. State representatives Chris Quinn, R–Delaware County, and Jordan Harris, D–Philadelphia, discuss the governor’s plan and examine bipartisan avenues to reduce gun violence.

Former Montgomery County District Attorney Bradford Richman has spent more than 30 years enforcing the law. As he sees it, both sides of the aisle largely agree on a host of gun control measures, but they need to actually work together to pass legislation. He also says legislators should take a holistic approach to gun violence.

Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday placed responsibility for inaction on gun violence in the hands of President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, in the face of broad national support for some gun control measures. “If most Americans insist that something be done and it doesn’t happen, it means we need fundamental reform,” Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South...

The Democratic-controlled House on Wednesday approved a measure requiring federal background checks for all firearms sales and transfers, the first major gun control legislation considered by Congress in nearly 25 years. Democrats called the 240-190 vote a major step to end the gun lobby’s grip on Washington and begin to address an epidemic of gun violence that kills thousands of...