Tag: Gun Control

In this Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, then-Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who was elected House Speaker later that day during the 112th Congress, walks out of his home on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

John Boehner dismisses idea of a House Freedom Caucus member replacing Paul Ryan

Melissa Quinn · April 11, 2018 6:33 pm

A crowd watches a television from the exhibition hall as President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Atlanta, Friday, April 28, 2017.

NRA acknowledges more than 20 Russian-linked contributors

Katelyn Caralle · April 11, 2018 6:03 pm

Rep. Jim Jordan, a top conservative lawmaker, disputed that there is any movement inside the Freedom Caucus to oust House Speaker Paul Ryan or seek a change in leadership. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Beltway Confidential

Jim Jordan suggests Paul Ryan is stepping down because tax reform was his ‘papal conversion’

Anna Giaritelli · April 11, 2018 2:02 pm

Florida Sen. Bill Nelson said he has asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to unanimously pass a Zika funding bill that is stalled in the Senate.

Beltway Confidential

Time to tune out Sen. Bill Nelson in the gun violence debate

Becket Adams · April 10, 2018 8:31 pm

A Glock 30SF .45 Auto semi-automatic pistol and thirteen rounds of hollow-point ammunition are seen with a Glock extended capacity magazine, in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016.

Beltway Confidential

A dead burglar’s friends are harassing a British neighborhood. Gun ownership would help counter them

Tom Rogan · April 10, 2018 5:01 pm

Conservative political commentator Laura Ingraham walks on stage during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Laura Ingraham vows to fight ‘Stalinist’ liberals in return to Fox

Tristan Justice · April 10, 2018 2:33 pm

Student David Hogg speaks to the media as he returns to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.

Commentator resigns after threatening to sexually assault gun control activist David Hogg

Katie Leach · April 10, 2018 1:16 am

View from the pew in a small church

Beltway Confidential

Citing the Second Commandment, North Carolina churches take aim at Second Amendment

Philip Wegmann · April 9, 2018 7:07 pm

The mayor of Columbia, S.C., said he is a gun owner and has "no interest in demonizing gun owners." However, he said it's "wrong in every sense" that devices such as bump stocks turn a "semi-automatic firearm into a mass murder machine." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Red Alert Politics

Student newspaper editor fired after tearing down pro-gun flyers

Kelsey Carroll · April 9, 2018 6:59 pm

Jason Aldean addresses the crowd about the shooting in Las Vegas during his concert in Tulsa, Okla., Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Country star Aldean is making an emotional return to the stage after cancelling tour dates following the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas.

Country singer Jason Aldean: ‘It’s too easy to get guns’

Melissa Quinn · April 9, 2018 5:50 pm

Rev. Al Sharpton will be attending the first day of confirmation hearings for Sen. Jeff Sessions. (Dale Gerhard/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)

Al Sharpton partnering with Parkland survivor to hold gun control rally outside Trump Tower

Katie Leach · April 7, 2018 9:12 pm

Rep. Ralph Norman.

GOP lawmaker pulls out loaded gun while meeting constituents: ‘I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords’

Mandy Mayfield · April 6, 2018 10:33 pm