Tag: Gun Control

"Any member of Congress who hasn't announced support for a bill to ban all assault weapons by Friday should be removed from Congress," said Michael Moore. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

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Michael Moore: Lawmakers against an assault weapons ban should be ‘removed’

Daniel Chaitin · June 15, 2016 4:26 am

"Here's what it boils down to: The presumption, I believe, should be in favor of keeping guns out of a person's hand if they're on the list," Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin told the Examiner. (AP Photo)

Dems abandon ‘innocent until proven guilty’ to push gun ban

Joel Gehrke · June 15, 2016 4:01 am

CNN's Anderson Cooper is not the only member of the press to put this theory into practice. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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New media trend: Don’t name the killer

Becket Adams · June 14, 2016 11:31 pm

"I do recognize that at the time the Orlando shooter bought his gun he was not on the watch list, so it's not an immediate question," said Rep. Alan Grayson. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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House Dem: Watch list gun ban irrelevant to Orlando attack

Joel Gehrke · June 14, 2016 10:43 pm

Former President Bill Clinton believes if more people at the Pulse nightclub had legally been carrying guns, more innocent people would have been shot. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Bill Clinton: More people carrying guns in Orlando would only have killed more people

Anna Giaritelli · June 14, 2016 9:21 pm

"It feels like a bazooka — and sounds like a cannon," the New York Daily News' Gersh Kuntzman said in an article published Tuesday. "The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable." (Bloomberg News/George Frey, File)

New York Daily News journalist: Firing an AR-15 gave me PTSD

Becket Adams · June 14, 2016 9:20 pm

"We want to have an up or down vote on the basics," said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, R-Ill. "[Sen. Dianne] Feinstein's bill is the right starting point because of Orlando, but for many of us there are still so may gaps in coverage." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Senate Dems plan gun control blitz

Susan Ferrechio · June 14, 2016 8:38 pm

The Amarillo Police Department said the suspect is apparently dead and that, —œhostages inside are safe.—£ (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)

Gunman killed after hostage situation in Texas

Kelly Cohen · June 14, 2016 6:42 pm

Beltway Confidential

Did the Orlando tragedy change Obama at all?

Jason Russell · June 14, 2016 6:14 pm

Obama: Gun Control Now or More Terrorism Later

Chris Deaton · June 14, 2016 5:46 pm

No credible gun seller in America is selling these weapons for the specific purpose of murder. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,file)

Tenn. lawmaker defends AR-15 giveaway

Kelly Cohen · June 14, 2016 5:14 pm

Army Reserve Capt. Antonio Davon Brown, 29, was a Florida native. He is among the 49 killed and 53 injured when a gunman stormed Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday. (Screenshot: Florida A&M news site)

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Army reservist among those killed at Orlando nightclub

David Wilkes · June 14, 2016 3:15 pm