[ad_1] Nearly eight years after a gunman murdered 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Florida House on Thursday passed a bill that would lower the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 21 to 18. The Republican-controlled House, which passed the bill (HB 133) in a 74-37 vote,

[ad_1] The yellow school bus has taken Manuel and Patricia Oliver far. They have driven it around the country, from coast to coast, three times in the past five years, advocating for an end to gun violence on behalf of their son, Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, who was among the 17 killed in the Feb. 14,

[ad_1] Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut introduced an amendment to an appropriations bill Monday seeking to impose a massive tax increase on suppressors and certain firearms. The reconciliation bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in July contained provisions that reduced the taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and guns described as

[ad_1] Governor Kathy Hochul wants to make it a crime in New York simply to possess, without a license, digital instructions on how to produce a gun or component parts. The proposal is part of her new agenda to further crack down on 3D printed guns “ghost guns.” Ms. Hochul claims that ghost guns are

[ad_1] Governor Kathy Hochul wants to make it a crime in New York to simply possess digital instructions on how to produce a gun or component parts without a license. The proposal is part of her new agenda to further crack down on 3D printed guns “ghost guns.” Ms. Hochul claims that ghost guns are

[ad_1] Congress is set to keep funding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) at levels similar to those the agency received during the Biden administration, according to the text of a government funding bill it is considering. The ATF, a federal agency long criticized by pro-Second Amendment groups, is expected to receive

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[ad_1] On November 18, 2025, Congress received President Trump’s nomination of Robert Cekada to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Congress.gov noted that Cekada’s nomination was received in the Senate and “referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.” Cekada has served as the Deputy Director of the ATF since April of

[ad_1] After nearly eight years, the victims’ families in Parkland apparently have still not suffered enough. Little else explains the stubborn persistence by Republican legislators, in the face of political and legal obstacles, to lower the age to buy rifles and shotguns from 21 to 18. For the fourth year, a bill to allow teens

[ad_1] Credit: Shutterstock The Florida House is again moving to pass a controversial bill that would lower the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 21 to 18, though the Senate has not given any public sign that it is on board. The Republican-controlled House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Tuesday voted 11-5

[ad_1] News Service of Florida — The Republican-controlled House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Tuesday voted 11-5 along party lines to approve the bill (HB 133), which now only needs to clear the House Judiciary Committee before it could go to the full House during the 2026 legislative session. The bill would reverse a decision made

[ad_1] TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House is again moving to pass a controversial bill that would lower the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 21 to 18, though the Senate has not given any public sign that it is on board. The Republican-controlled House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Tuesday voted 11-5

[ad_1] By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez’s mistaken arrival at the wrong Indiana address Wednesday cost her her life. As the house cleaner tried to enter the home she thought was scheduled for housekeeping that morning, the homeowner fatally shot her. The incident is renewing questions about so-called stand-your-ground

[ad_1] Testifying in favor of the National Firearms Act (NFA) in 1934, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings noted that the federal government “of course” had “no inherent police powers to go into certain localities and deal with local crime.” Rather, “it is only when we can reach those things under the interstate commerce provision, or

[ad_1] Since the start of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, Uncloseted Media has been checking in every 100 days to document each move in the administration’s ongoing and relentless attack on the LGBTQIA+ community. These last few months have continued the trend of each 100 days being worse than the last. Trump has weaponized the

[ad_1] The idea behind a 72-hour waiting period is that it allows people to “cool off,” supposedly. This has been reportedly linked to a drop in suicides, according to researchers. Those researchers have never looked at how many people tried to get a gun due to safety concerns, only to be killed before they could

[ad_1] On November 4, Virginia elected its first woman governor, Democrat Abigail Spanberger. It also got something else: another chance to pass comprehensive gun reform, something the majority-Democrat General Assembly had tried to do for the past two years, but was stymied by Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin. Youngkin has vetoed 42 gun reform bills since

[ad_1] The Myth of “No Liberals Who Hunt” — Quiet Support for the Tradition When someone quips, “There are no liberals who hunt,” it sounds like cultural shorthand — the sort of political caricature that sticks easily in a divided America. But like most sweeping generalizations, it collapses under even modest scrutiny. From New England

[ad_1] The Supreme Court has now started its next judicial session and will soon be ruling on several of President Trump’s challenges to years of established law – in some cases, challenging basic long held tenets of our Constitution. Trump has stacked our Supreme Court with extremist conservative ideologues focussing legal arguments on their perceived

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Houston, plans to introduce legislation Wednesday that would repeal a host of gun-related provisions in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, enacted in the wake of the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde. “The Constitution is crystal clear: our right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” Hunt

[ad_1] Bob Montel Bob D. Montel, 89, passed away unexpectedly in his home on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. Born in his family’s farmhouse in Wabash County, Bob was the son of Deveral and Ruby (Ayres) Montel. He graduated from Laketon High School in Laketon. Farming was a part of his upbringing, and he still helped