January 19, 2022 7:09 PM Posted: January 19, 2022 7:09 PM OLYMPIA, Wash. — Guns and their safety are up for debate once again in Washington — a state that already has some of the toughest control laws in the country. The Senate and Justice Committee heard multiple bill proposals and public comments on Monday

(The Hill) – Harry Reid, one of the Senate’s longest-serving majority leaders and a Democrat who played a central role in enacting President Obama’s biggest legislative accomplishments, died Tuesday at 82.  The death was announced by longtime political reporter Jon Ralston, who called Reid “probably the most important elected official in Nevada history.” Reid served as majority

The great divergence is rapidly expanding—and President Joe Biden’s window to reverse it is narrowing. Since the 1960s, Congress and federal courts have acted mostly to strengthen the floor of basic civil rights available to citizens in all 50 states, a pattern visible on issues from the dismantling of Jim Crow racial segregation to the

The holiday season is known for its celebration of life, togetherness, and giving. But for some US politicians, spreading Christmas cheer has come to mean promoting an increasingly dangerous gun culture. In what appears to be the latest GOP trend, Republican leaders have been posting their Christmas greetings with portraits of their families posing with

Americans who try to keep track of what’s going on in Congress frequently fall back on a cry of Why don’t they just. … It comes up when there’s an apparently endless string of crises that appear to have simple, at least partial solutions. So why don’t they just. … The answer is almost never satisfactory.

Americans who try to keep track of what’s going on in Congress frequently fall back on a cry of Why don’t they just. … It comes up when there’s an apparently endless string of crises that appear to have simple, at least partial solutions. So why don’t they just. … The answer is almost never

By inserting California into a battle with national stakes, Gov. Gavin Newsom is reprising his Trump-era role as a leader of the liberal resistance. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images OAKLAND — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is back with a progressive fury after defeating a conservative-led recall attempt in September. On the talk-show circuit last week, Newsom

From afar, it looks like any playground. Kids are playing after school on a cold fall day, as the temperature drops and a family of deer appears briefly. Similarly, a blonde-haired woman in jeans resting for a moment on one of the swings could be any mom.But the playground is a memorial to Dylan Hockley,

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN Photographs by Bryan Anselm/Redux for CNN From afar, it looks like any playground. Kids are playing after school on a cold fall day, as the temperature drops and a family of deer appears briefly. Similarly, a blonde-haired woman in jeans resting for a moment on one of the swings could be

Earlier this year, the gun control group Everytown launched a new program to train its volunteers to run for office. More than 100 people are participating in Demand A Seat this year. Among them is Mia Livas Porter, who is running for a California Assembly seat, and whose brother, Junior, took his own life with

HARTFORD — Joining gun-safety advocates before Tuesday’s ninth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy on Monday voiced rare optimism over the possibility of national legislation finally emerging from a Congress where the influence of the National Rifle Association appears to be waning. Noting that more state

When Manuel Oliver watched President Joe Biden deliver a generic, nondescript statement about the latest in a string of mass shootings tearing apart American families, he decided that enough was enough. It was 30 November and a teenage gunman had opened fire inside a high school in Oxford, Michigan, with a gun it later emerged

Our nation’s political divide was on stark display this week, following yet another senseless school shooting — the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since 2018 — that stole the lives of four Michigan teenagers and traumatized hundreds of other Oxford High School students forced to “run, hide or fight” a 15-year-old attacker armed with

Young voters have a chance to change that for the next generation of students I was six years old in 2007. I remember when my mom picked me up from kindergarten and told me to be quiet while the reporter on the radio described the scene on the Virginia Tech University campus. She wouldn’t tell

As the country awaits a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a New York state case that may create a federal constitutional right to carry guns outside the home, what lessons can the nation draw from the recent acquittal in Wisconsin of Kyle Rittenhouse and the convictions in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia? The

That stance drew the dissent of a trio of judges appointed by former President Donald Trump: Lawrence VanDyke, Ryan Nelson and Patrick Bumatay. They underscored the national stakes by arguing “these magazines are lawfully owned by millions of people nationwide” and warning California’s law applying across America would “require confiscating half of all existing firearms

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The modern American gun debate began in 1967, when 30 protesting members of the Black Panther Party marched into the California Capitol with loaded handguns, shotguns and rifles. In California there were few restrictions on carrying loaded weapons in public. That soon changed. The Panthers’ efforts to “police the police” already had led Republican Assemblyman

The outcome of Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial seemed pre-ordained from the beginning when Judge Bruce Schroeder said lawyers couldn’t refer to the two men Rittenhouse killed and a third he permanently disabled as “victims” because that was up to the jury to decide, but they might call them “rioters” or “looters” even though no jury had

Four days before Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of murder, the judge in his case tossed out a charge: illegal possession of the military-style semi-automatic rifle he used to kill two people. The withdrawal of the misdemeanor charge, which carried a maximum sentence of less than a year, was a footnote in a much bigger drama.

Police say that John Hurley, 40, confronted Ronald Troyke after he shot and killed Officer Gordon Beesley in the west Denver suburb of Arvada. Investigators recovered a document written by Troyke with statements revealing his intent to kill police officers, including, “Today I will kill as many Arvada officers as I possibly can.” In a

Wayne LaPierre, the longtime head of the National Rifle Association, is one of the most successful lobbyists in American history, one of the central hubs of the conservative movement, and quite possibly a complete and utter buffoon. “Wayne is a clumsy, meek, spastic man with a weak handshake,” the journalist Tim Mak writes in his

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Four years ago, a little-known Democratic congressman from El Paso named Beto O’Rourke announced he was running for U.S. Senate, challenging Republican incumbent Ted Cruz. O’Rourke got started early, launching more than a year and

For years, the National Rifle Association has abetted death and mayhem on America’s streets, empowered by its iron grip on the Republican Party. A new lawsuit alleges an unlawful component of that dark symbiotic relationship. It claims the NRA has circumvented campaign finance laws to illegally funnel tens of millions of dollars in campaign resources

For years, the National Rifle Association has abetted death and mayhem on America’s streets, empowered by its iron grip on the Republican Party. A new lawsuit alleges an unlawful component of that dark symbiotic relationship. It claims the NRA has circumvented campaign finance laws to illegally funnel tens of millions of dollars in campaign resources

The ad was another example of the tension between the NRA’s messaging strategists at Ackerman McQueen, and the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), the NRA’s lobbying arm. While the lobbyists were on the Hill trying to make deals, Ack-Mac and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre were cooking up this divisive advertisement. Good for the base, bad

“Those successes would not have been possible without leaders like Mark who worked to correct the failure of the movement in the wake of the Newtown votes,” Igor Volsky, the executive director of Guns Down, said in a phone interview. Mark Charles Glaze was born on Oct. 21, 1970, in Pueblo, Colo. His father, Charles

This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments over a potential blockbuster Second Amendment case, one in which the conservative majority appeared poised to overturn New York’s (and other states) restrictions on who can get a concealed carry permit. But if that happens, don’t expect the network newscasts to celebrate this as a “historic” decision. Those

On the Docket: Where Do Americans Have a Right to Bear Arms? Updated: 6:26 PM PDT Nov 5, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WELCOME TO “MATTER OF FACT.” IT’S A BLOCKBUSTER TERM FOR THE SUPREME COT. THE NINEUS JTICES ARE HEARING A CRUCIAL GUN RIGHTS CASE. IT COULD CHANGE THE WAY CITIZENS CARRY FIREARMS IN