Timing is everything. In recent weeks I have written articles about two highly popular 9mm semiautomatic pistols, the striker-fired Canik TP9 and the traditional double-action Smith & Wesson Model 3913 LadySmith.  Alas, at the time of those writings, I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to fire either weapon, so I instead went with the assessments

President Joe Biden could face a familial wrinkle in his gun control effort: Hunter Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris noted on Friday that gun control will be a major part of the Biden administration’s legislative agenda going into 2024. The administration plans to seek bans on semi-automatic rifles and red-flag laws that allow the confiscation of firearms

  Firearms have been a source of debate in the United States for decades due to the abnormally high amount of gun violence in the country. Recently, the New York Times reported guns surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children, with at least 145 mass shootings in 2023, as of April 11. Utah

Laws imposing minimum age requirements for the possession and purchase of firearms are intended to reduce access to firearms by young people. These laws are also on the books to lower the number of suicides, homicides, and unintentional shootings among America’s youth.  Young people are at serious risk of becoming involved in violent acts against

On Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley went on CNN to appear in another of the network’s now infamous “town halls.” The kind of town hall that promises the sort of kid glove treatment that can only be delivered by a network in free fall. It was the same town hall at which Haley spent

At the gleaming new Fruitport High School in Michigan, the entrance opens to a spacious atrium, with floating rows of lockers arrayed diagonally from the front door. They are noticeably short so students can peer over them. Overlooking the atrium is a walkway fenced with metal sheets and pockmarked with slits through which you can

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. From the movie theater to the shopping mall, inside a church and a synagogue, through the grocery aisle and into the classroom, gun violence has invaded every corner of American life. It is

Kinsey Akers  |  Deputy News Editor On March 23, 2023, March for Our Lives, the student-based organization founded in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, hosted a rally at the Florida Capitol in protest of several of Florida’s firearm policies, particularly a recent bill, House Bill 543, which allows permitless concealed carry.

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This tweet: DeSantis signed a permit-less carry bill in April that removes requirements for:-background checks-instruction-training+oversight Until our leaders have the courage to stop bowing down to the NRA and enact common sense gun safety this kind of senseless violence will continue. https://t.co/iX6ryxsPwv — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 30,

North Jersey residents explain what brought them to the polls These North Jersey residents share their Election Day 2022 motivations. Miguel Fernandez, NorthJersey.com New Jersey’s 24th District is guaranteed to have two new Assembly representatives next year after neither incumbent chose to run in this year’s election. That wide-open race has attracted five candidates to

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) tried on Monday to blame Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for a mass shooting that happened in the Sunshine State. But the attempt immediately fell flat. What did Newsom say? Nine people were injured when gunfire erupted on the Hollywood Oceanfront Boardwalk in south Florida on Memorial Day. Police believe

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A proposal dealing with concealed carry passed out of a Senate committee on Tuesday, May 30. The bill would allow Louisiana residents ages 21 and older to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. The bill also eliminates all training and background check requirements to carry a concealed weapon in

State Rep. Danny McCormick’s House Bill 131 to allow concealed carry of firearms without a permit or training fails the commonsense test. It would accelerate the presence of hidden guns even deeper into our daily lives. The proliferation of guns must be checked and balanced with permitting and training. States with weak gun laws have

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A bill that would allow people to conceal carry a firearm without a permit or training is advancing in the legislature. State Rep. Danny McCormick has brought his so-called ‘constitutional carry’ bill for the last few years and was previously vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards in 2021. Now the

Louisiana lawmakers took another step Tuesday toward allowing adults to carry hidden handguns without permits or training. Members of the Senate Judiciary B Committee voted 4-1 to advance Republican Oil City state Rep. Danny McCormick’s House Bill 131, though they did amend the measure to raise the age from 18 to 21. Committee Chairman Gary

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom tried to blame Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the Monday shooting in the Sunshine State, but was immediately corrected. Gunfire broke out at the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk on Monday, injuring at least nine people, including minors. Newsom wasted no time trying to pin the blame on DeSantis’ recent constitutional

Guns killed 1,315 Alabamians in 2021. The state, with a population of 5 million, had 26.4 firearm deaths per 100,000 people that year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That same year, New York State, with about 20 million people, reported 1,078 firearms deaths, a rate of 5.4 gun deaths per 100,000.

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By Rosaland TylerAssociate EditorNew Journal and Guide Maryland’s first Black governor, Wes Moore, continued to make history after he recently signed 175 new laws, including gun restriction laws that determine who can carry guns and where they can carry them. The newly-inked legislation bans firearms in public spaces like schools, bars, restaurants, performance venues, polling

Blaine Walker has multiple guns. The Williamson County conservative has a handgun permit. He hunts, primarily duck and goose. Walker doesn’t consider firearms evil.  He’s one of the millions of Americans that believe guns don’t kill people; people kill people. Millions of others disagree. However, he also believes divisiveness on firearms issues has reached an

Florida’s six-week abortion ban In April, DeSantis signed into law a ban on abortions after six weeks. The six-week ban will only take effect only if the state’s current 15-week ban is upheld before the state Supreme Court. The ban allows for exceptions for victims of rape and incest if they provide evidence such as

Local political and civil rights leaders gathered in Severn Wednesday morning to condemn the young man whose neighborhood walks with a semiautomatic rifle have garnered national attention this past week. Together, they called for the armed demonstrations to stop, saying they’re inciting fear in the community, and suggested his actions may inspire further gun control

Maine legislative committees are scheduled to consider bills LD 1557, to allow concealed weapons on school property, and LD 1696, which would allow lawsuits against the gun industry from persons harmed by “abnormally dangerous” firearms. While he supports one bill but not the other, John Merrill, president of the Pine Tree State Rifle and Pistol

As a Louisiana grandmother, I am so confused. I was surprised to read that proposed House Bill 131 would enact a right of citizens to carry concealed weapons without a permit. Here in Louisiana, we need a permit to drive a car because cars can be dangerous, especially without operator training. The Legislature even requires

In response to the letter from Rich Wieland (“Delaware needs to do more about gun safety”), May 2), I offer the following. Mark Twain, in 1907, is often attributed with the following: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The numbers used by Mr. Wieland are just statistics that don’t show

New You can now listen to Insurance Journal articles! The National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm sued to block Maryland from enforcing new gun-control measures that enhance requirements for obtaining concealed-carry permits and restrict firearms in sensitive areas including school grounds and hospitals. The suit was filed in federal court in Baltimore on Tuesday, hours after

The wife of Anne Arundel County Del. Nic Kipke has joined a gun rights organization suing Gov. Wes Moore, challenging Maryland’s new laws that will restrict where licensed gun owners can carry firearms. The case filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore has as plaintiffs the Maryland State Rifle and Pistol Association Inc. —

The National Rifle Association (NRA) promptly sued Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Tuesday, after he signed into law several new gun control measures. The state arm of the NRA, the Maryland State Rifle & Pistol Association, alleged in the suit that the new laws violate the Second and Fourteenth Amendments by placing “unconstitutional restrictions”

Rep. Danny McCormick, R-Oil City, brought what he said was a “constitutional carry” bill before the committee Tuesday. BATON ROUGE, La. — A House committee on crime advanced a bill 8-1 that would allow permitless concealed carry for individuals 18 and older. Rep. Danny McCormick, R-Oil City, brought what he said was a “constitutional carry”