Tag: Florida

President Trump pauses during a meeting on Wednesday in the Cabinet Room of the White House with members of Congress to discuss school and community safety. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump sides with Democrats on background checks, upends fragile Senate gun talks

Susan Ferrechio · February 28, 2018 11:55 pm

On Wednesday, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., decried President Trump's recent remarks that the government should carry out a weapons ban first, then work out the matter in the courts. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ben Sasse rips Trump after he said, ‘take the guns first, go through due process second’

Daniel Chaitin · February 28, 2018 11:48 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Tuesday that the Justice Department's inspector general will investigate alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a move condemned by President Trump on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

13 Republicans ask Jeff Sessions to appoint second special counsel to investigate FBI, DOJ

Daniel Chaitin · February 28, 2018 11:13 pm

President Trump met with lawmakers from both sides in the White House as part of his ongoing effort to get a bill through the House and Senate, and was told from both sides that his participation is critical. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Lawmakers ask Trump to lead on guns: ‘It’s going to have to be you’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 28, 2018 9:13 pm

President Trump said lawmakers have been afraid to raise the age limit because of opposition from the NRA, but he said it needs to be considered anyway. (Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg)

Trump pressures lawmakers to raise minimum age for rifles to 21

Pete Kasperowicz · February 28, 2018 8:41 pm

Dick's Sporting Goods' CEO Edward Stack, himself a gun owner, has praised the retailer's decision to raise the minimum age for firearms sales.

Beltway Confidential

Dick’s Sporting Goods’ ‘new’ policy of not selling AR-15 rifles is just a stunt

Becket Adams · February 28, 2018 8:28 pm

If approved, teachers in Pike County, Ky., could be armed this fall, perhaps even sooner, after receiving training from the sheriff's office. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Parents and teachers scared of mass shootings should follow this example

Nicole Russell · February 28, 2018 8:17 pm

Volunteers hang banners around the perimeter of Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Fla., to welcome back students who will be returning to school Wednesday two weeks after the mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Students return to Florida high school two weeks after shooting

Katelyn Caralle · February 28, 2018 1:09 pm

Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack said the company's actions were in direct response to the mass shooting and students calling for stricter gun control laws. (Photo by Scott Dalton/Invision for Dick's Sporting Goods/AP Images)

National Security

Dick’s Sporting Goods ends sales of AR-15s and semi-automatic rifles, puts age limit on gun sales

Caitlin Yilek · February 28, 2018 12:39 pm

GOP bill would lower minimum age for buying a handgun

Pete Kasperowicz · February 28, 2018 12:06 pm

Since the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., young Americans have been taking to the streets, state capitols, and Washington, D.C., to protest gun violence and the lack of gun control in the U.S. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Right or wrong, young men and women finding their voice is a beautiful thing

Kristen Soltis Anderson · February 28, 2018 5:01 am

Suburban voters are pressuring Republican incumbents for legislative action to curtail firearms after a high school shooting massacre in Parkland, Fla., left 17 dead. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

After Parkland, vulnerable suburban Republicans under pressure on guns

David M. Drucker · February 28, 2018 5:01 am