Tag: Gun Control

FILE--In this April 1, 2014 file photo, gun rights activists rally outside the State Museum at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. Polls have shown majority support for the law spearheaded by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by lawmakers after the 2012 school shooting in Connecticut. But the law is intensely disliked in parts of upstate New York with strong hunting and gun cultures. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Ire over gun control lingers in upstate New York

Michael Hill · June 15, 2014 5:20 pm

The group Everytown for Gun Safety has published a list of 74 school shootings it says have taken place since Sandy Hook.

Beltway Confidential

Everytown report on school shootings is off-target

Spencer Brown · June 12, 2014 5:26 pm

Lincoln may change retailers’ rule on ammo display

Washington Examiner · June 12, 2014 9:01 am

President Obama on Tuesday said the âbiggest frustrationâ of his presidency is the countryâs unwillingness to enact gun control laws. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Obama: Inability to pass gun control ‘biggest frustration,’ cites Australian gun crackdown as success story

Blake Seitz · June 11, 2014 1:00 pm

Voters in the California secretary of state election had eight candidates to choose from, and 287,590 cast their vote for Leland Yee. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Nearly 300,000 people in California voted for a Democrat charged with bribery, gun trafficking

Ashe Schow · June 4, 2014 6:10 pm

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Texas gun-rights group blasts NRA for criticism of ‘open carry’ protests

Becket Adams · June 2, 2014 9:38 pm

Richard Martinez talks about his son Christopher Michael-Martineza during a memorial service for the victims and families of Friday's rampage at Harder Stadium on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, on May 27 in the Isla Vista area near Goleta, Calif. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Evil murderers can be stopped, but doing the impossible takes a little longer

Richard Vatz · June 2, 2014 2:46 pm

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the T&C Philanthropy Summit with screening of 'Generosity Of Eye' at Lincoln Center with Town & Country on May 28, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Town & Country)

Michael Bloomberg: ‘Kids should just not have guns on campus’

Brian Hughes · June 1, 2014 4:58 pm

Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., right, who represents Santa Barbara, Calif., where a mentally unstable man fatally shot and stabbed six people last week, joins members of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force to announce a bill they say is designed to allow police to remove guns from the hands of the mentally ill and reduce gun violence. From left are Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.; Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa.; Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo.; Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y.; and Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrats introduce gun-control bill targeting the mentally ill in wake of Isla Vista shootings

Sean Lengell · May 31, 2014 9:00 am

Brady Campaign endorses Frosh for attorney general

Washington Examiner · May 30, 2014 7:09 pm

Gun rights group sues over printed material ban

Emily Schmall · May 29, 2014 9:13 pm

Students cry during a memorial service for the victims and families of Friday's rampage at Harder Stadium on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 in the Isla Vista area near Goleta, Calif.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Shooting raises issue of chaos on campuses

R. Emmett Tyrrell · May 29, 2014 3:10 pm