New law helps victims deal with gun violence
August 31, 2022
The law signed by the President provides needed help for victims after an unending stream of violence.
NRA: A limping, but armed, has-been?
April 26, 2019
The nation’s largest gun-rights organization played a pivotal role in President Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. Three years later, the National Rifle Association is limping
Time to ban assault weapons and, perhaps, the NRA
February 28, 2018
As a lifelong hunter and gun owner, I flirted with possession of assault-style weapons. I once had an AR-15, a AK-47 and other assault-style variations
Trump moves to ban ‘bump stocks,’ wants ‘more protections’ of children
February 21, 2018
As a grieving Florida community demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the
Beginnings of a real movement to stop assault-style weapons
February 18, 2018
A major donor to Republican political action committees, campaign organizations and candidates said Saturday he will no longer write checks to those anyone who does
NRA buys GOP votes to stop gun control
June 21, 2016
Among the Senate’s most vulnerable Republicans, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey stood firmly with the powerful National Rifle Association on the latest ill-fated attempts at gun
Gun control changes? Not likely
June 20, 2016
Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but election-year politics and the powerful National Rifle Association
Obama now says NRA is lying
January 8, 2016
President Barack Obama mocked conspiracy theorists and tore into the National Rifle Association for pushing “imaginary fiction,” as he described his plans to tighten gun
GOP presidential wannabes chase NRA endorsement
April 26, 2014
Several potential Republican presidential candidates courted gun-rights supporters Friday at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, talking up their pro-gun credentials while imploring the crowd
NRA forces Obama to delay push on surgeon general
March 16, 2014
The White House is backing off its push for quick confirmation of President Barack Obama’s pick to be surgeon general in the face of opposition