Tag: Gun Control

"Ask politicians, ask people who represent their constituents if they support school safety, if they support public safety, if they support talking action to prevent more slaughters like the one that happened in Parkland from happening anyplace else," said Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla. "That's the way this debate has to go, and because of these kids I think that's the way it's going to start being addressed." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Florida Democrat: We need to focus on ‘school safety,’ not ‘gun control’

Katelyn Caralle · February 21, 2018 1:01 pm

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has argued that even the Obama administration couldn't find a way to regulate bump stocks, which are an accessory that lets a semi-automatic weapon fire at a similar rate to an automatic weapon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump’s gun plan is ‘disappointing,’ says Second Amendment Caucus leader

Pete Kasperowicz · February 21, 2018 12:27 pm

White House Watch: The Pivot to ‘Bump Stocks’?

Michael Warren · February 21, 2018 10:15 am

Hundreds of Americans have taken to the streets to campaign for stricter gun laws over the past week after a deadly school shooting in Florida took 17 lives. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Gun control is a fantasy. Start a realistic conversation about preventing school massacres

Washington Examiner · February 21, 2018 5:01 am

After the school shooting in Florida last week, President Trump instructed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to outline regulations that would outlaw bump stock devices that modify semi-automatic guns to fire at a higher rate akin to automatic firearms. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

NRA says it will wait until it sees Trump regulation on bump stocks before commenting

Diana Stancy Correll, Daniel Chaitin · February 21, 2018 3:49 am

Benjamin Kelly, an aide to Republican Florida state Rep. Shawn Harrison, told the Tampa Bay Times that Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., "are not students here but actors that travel to various crises when they happen." (screenshot)

Florida state lawmaker aide fired after claiming school shooting survivors were actors

Daniel Chaitin · February 21, 2018 12:19 am

Director Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, announced Tuesday they have donated a half-million dollars to the March For Our Lives campaign advocating for stricter gun control laws. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw match Clooneys’ $500,000 donation to March for our Lives rally

Diana Stancy Correll · February 20, 2018 11:39 pm

Feinstein said if Trump thinks he can fire Rosenstein "and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Despite Trump order, Dianne Feinstein wants ‘bump stock’ legislation

Susan Ferrechio · February 20, 2018 11:03 pm

In this 2016 photo, a Smith & Wesson manufacturer display of AR-15 rifles is pictured during Summer Expo at H&H Shooting Sports in Oklahoma City. Now referred to as American Outdoors Brands Corporation, the company manufactured the AR-15 that was used in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Florida teachers’ pension plan held 41,000 shares in company that made AR-15 used in Stoneman Douglas shooting

Anna Giaritelli · February 20, 2018 10:55 pm

In this 2013 photo, the Florida State Capitol and Florida House Office are shown in Tallahassee, Fla. On Tuesday, the state House voted down the motion to to consider a bill to ban assault rifles, 36-71. (Michael Rivera / Wikimedia Commons)

Florida House votes down motion to consider bill banning assault rifles

Melissa Quinn · February 20, 2018 10:43 pm

Hundreds of teenage students marched to the White House Monday to stage a "lie-in" for three minutes, the amount of time a gunman spent roaming the halls of a Parkland, Fla., high school last week, killing 17. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to meet with gun victims, backs safety measures amid pressure to act

Gabby Morrongiello · February 20, 2018 10:40 pm

In this Jan. 11 photo, a semi-automatic rifle at right that has been fitted with a so-called 'bump stock' device to make it fire faster sits on a table at the Washington State Patrol crime laboratory in Seattle. President Trump said on Tuesday shortly after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders discussed the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead: "Just a few moments ago, I signed a memorandum directing the Attorney General to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns." (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Beltway Confidential

Trump is right to ban ‘bump stocks,’ which turn semi-automatic rifles into machine guns

Philip Wegmann · February 20, 2018 10:11 pm