Tag: Gun Control

Washington Secrets

15% of Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun mayors leave

Paul Bedard · February 7, 2014 5:00 am

Rising Democratic star and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has joined her top Republican rival in supporting a proposed "open carry" law. It would allow people with concealed handgun licenses to wear a pistol on their hip, in full view, while in public. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Wendy Davis supports open carry law for guns

Jim Vertuno · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

Colorado has seen some of the most horrific incidents of gun violence in the country, including a fatal shooting at Arapahoe High School on Dec. 15, 2013. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

In Colorado, poll shows support for armed teachers over stricter gun laws

Charlie Spiering · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

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Beltway Confidential

Chicago-area school officials don’t like ‘no guns’ stickers that picture guns

Ashe Schow · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

School shootings continue despite safety emphasis

Kimberly Hefling · February 3, 2014 8:34 am

Washington Secrets

NRA calls 2014 elections do-or-die; vows war with Michael Bloomberg, Obama

Paul Bedard · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

Clark Aposhian, president of the Utah Shooting Sport Council, uses a plastic gun during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in December 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Maine bill would ban replica guns in schools

Associated Press · February 1, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Rand Paul leads the 2016 pack. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Rand Paul pushing to end gun ban in U.S. Post Offices

Paul Bedard · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Women embrace at the site of a makeshift memorial for school shooting victims at the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Obama vows to ‘keep trying’ to end gun violence

Meghashyam Mali · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Washington Secrets

NRA brings back nation’s largest outdoor show killed by AR-15 gun ban

Paul Bedard · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Gun-safety training can be a life-saver. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Gun-safety training should start early

Diane Dimond · January 24, 2014 5:00 am

Dennis Roberts loads a magazine into the grip of a model 9VE pistol, which was manufactured for the U.S. Military for use by the Afghanistan National Police and Border Patrol, while test firing prior to shipping at the Smith & Wesson factory in Springfield, on Dec. 19, 2006. Smith & Wesson said it will stop selling new versions of semiautomatic pistols in California because of a law requiring the weapons to stamp identifying information onto bullet casings when the guns are fired. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Smith & Wesson to halt sale of some handguns in California over ‘microstamping’ law

Bloomberg News · January 23, 2014 5:00 am