Tag: Second Amendment

Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have made it clear they want more than the Fix NICS bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Partisan showdown on gun control stalls Senate background check bill

Susan Ferrechio · February 27, 2018 10:30 pm

David Hogg, a student survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. addresses a community rally for gun control legislation. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

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Parkland teens David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are squandering their moment

Becket Adams · February 27, 2018 9:00 pm

The National Rifle Association's strength comes not from monetary clout or electoral influence but from the dedication of its supporters. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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The NRA isn’t influential because of money, it’s because of its members

Daniel Payne · February 27, 2018 8:28 pm

Elizabeth Warren asks Wall Street to remind gunmakers how loudly money talks

James Langford · February 27, 2018 5:44 pm

Speaking to the National Association of Attorneys General, Sessions said he believes bump stocks — an attachment that enables a semi-automatic rifle to fire at a rate similar to an automatic firearm — can be effectively banned through regulation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jeff Sessions: Bump stocks announcement ‘soon’

Kelly Cohen · February 27, 2018 4:38 pm

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives began the process of deciphering what constitutes a "machine gun" nowadays after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas last year. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Bump stock regulations hang on a simple question: What is a machine gun?

Pete Kasperowicz · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, (pictured center) is cosponsoring a bill with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and more than a dozen other senators from both parties. The bill would improve the nation's background check system used for scrutinizing most firearms purchases. However, House Republicans are likely to oppose it unless they can add language allowing concealed carry permit holders to legally bring their weapons to other states. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Trump and Congress move on guns after Florida

Susan Ferrechio · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

Unlike the crystal-powered plasma blades of "Star Wars," a team of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists was able to bind photons by shining a laser through a cloud of rubidium, the metallic element below potassium on the periodic table. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)

Will lightsabers be protected by the Second Amendment?

Steven Nelson · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Monday said President Trump deserves some credit for his swift action on gun control after the mass shooting at a Florida high school earlier this month. (screenshot)

John Kasich: Trump ‘deserves credit’ for wanting to ban bump stocks

Naomi Lim · February 27, 2018 4:31 am

One of the students killed in the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school was buried Sunday in a jersey bearing Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade's name and number. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Dwyane Wade after Florida school shooting victim was buried in his jersey: ‘This is why we will not just SHUT up and dribble!’

Diana Stancy Correll · February 27, 2018 2:10 am

A vast majority of gun murders are committed with hand guns, the type a mother might keep in her bedroom to defend against intruders. The most popular single weapon in the U.S. is the AR-15, and an overwhelming majority of them are never used in a crime. (iStock)

The right of self-defense is fundamental

Washington Examiner · February 27, 2018 2:02 am

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that new local legislation would forbid those in the district from possessing, using, or selling bump stocks, which modify guns to fire bullets more rapidly. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

DC mayor reveals she plans to introduce legislation to prohibit bump stocks

Diana Stancy Correll · February 27, 2018 1:44 am