Tag: Gun Control

For every justifiable homicide in the U.S., involving a gun, guns were used in 32 criminal homicides, the study said. (Getty)

Gun control group says guns are rarely used to kill criminals, stop crimes

Kelly Cohen · June 17, 2015 11:02 pm

Bloomberg turns to reporters to fight NRA with new media site

Paul Bedard · June 16, 2015 10:51 pm

Everyone else could still carry a gun, but only if they are unloaded and locked up in clearly marked, locked cases, according to Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., the bill's sponsor. (Getty Images)

Dems want to ban loaded guns at airports

Pete Kasperowicz · June 16, 2015 5:17 pm

Michael Bloomberg backs gun news website. AP Photo

Secret revealed: Bloomberg funds new gun news site, ‘The Trace’

Paul Bedard · June 15, 2015 7:00 pm

Stan Greenberg, chairman of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and co-founder of Democracy Corps.Â Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor.

New gun control demand: Photos, fingerprints, background check before handgun purchase

Paul Bedard · June 12, 2015 7:02 pm

The woman, identifying herself as "Ms. Dee," told WDIV TV, "I was able to get to my gun. They didn't know I had it. By that time, it was just gunfire." (Screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Armed woman fights off five attackers

Emily Leayman · June 12, 2015 4:49 pm

Many run-of-the-mill flyers may be raising red flags without knowing, according to the Transportation Security Administration's controversial Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program. (AP Photo)

National Security

TSA failures prompt new effort to ban plastic guns

Pete Kasperowicz · June 10, 2015 1:21 pm

The NRA lost its gun-rights argument against San Francisco Monday when the Supreme Court refused to take up the gun group's case against a city law that requires gun owners to keep their firearms in a locked container or use a trigger lock. (iStock)

Supreme Court refuses to take up NRA challenge to San Francisco gun law

Emilie Padgett · June 8, 2015 5:26 pm

A marksman sights in on a target during a class he was taking to qualify for an Illinois concealed carry permit on February 14, 2014 in Posen, Ill. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images File)

Beltway Confidential

Maine moves toward permitless concealed carry

Emily Leayman · June 8, 2015 5:06 pm

AP Photo

NRA: Gun blogs, videos, web forums threatened by new Obama regulation

Paul Bedard · June 7, 2015 2:10 pm

House votes to let nonviolent ex-felons restore gun rights

Paul Bedard · June 5, 2015 2:36 pm

Gun violence is up 60 percent in Baltimore so far this year compared to 2014. (AP Photo)

Are we in for another high-crime era after the response to Ferguson and Baltimore?

Michael Barone · June 3, 2015 9:00 pm