A raucous celebration in Wisconsin for the Milwaukee Buck’s NBA championship win. A group of teenagers fooling around in a church parking lot in Utah. A crowded store in West Philadelphia. A woman escaping domestic violence with her young child in Kansas. A 15-year-old playing video games with a cousin in his bedroom in San

By Manu Raju, Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House and Democratic Senate leaders are trying to salvage President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but it’s not clear whether enough senators will get behind a nominee who has faced intense opposition from gun rights activists.

Supposedly nonpartisan fact-checking org Politifact ran interference for the Biden administration this week, falsely claiming that Biden did not say he wants to ban handguns during a recent town hall. What’s the background? During a Wednesday town hall event with far-left television network CNN, Biden was asked a question from a member of the audience

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the nation’s gun regulator is heading toward a bitterly close vote in the Senate after facing fierce opposition from a leading firearms trade group, sources watching the nomination said. Gun control advocates have long been optimistic about the nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

US 00:42 GMT 16.07.2021(updated 00:50 GMT 16.07.2021) Get short URL David Chipman, a gun control advocate nominated by US President Joe Biden to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), has faced doubts from several Democratic senators whose votes are needed for his confirmation – particularly due to Chipman’s tough stance on guns.

By Josh Campbell and Jason Kravarik, CNN As Americans across the country celebrated the nation’s independence and its freedom from the apparent worst of the coronavirus pandemic, an epidemic of a different kind remained on familiar display: the surge in shootings. It was an incredibly violent weekend across the country. According to the Gun Violence

Exclusive: The National Rifle Association (NRA) has set its sights on West Virginia in a $250,000 ad buy to counter President Biden’s pick to lead the gun control arm of the federal government.  The NRA will run a $250,000 TV ad buy in the traditionally red state in an attempt to convince West Virginians to

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez’s decision to strike down California’s Assault Weapon Ban has caused some gun controllers to lose their minds. California Gov. Gavin NewsomGavin NewsomCalifornia secretary of state confirms Newsom recall election Newsom overstated California’s wildfire prevention efforts: report 70 percent of Californians over 12 have received one shot of coronavirus vaccine MORE

Following the mass shooting at a Fairfield Township house party last month, Gov. Phil Murphy said New Jersey’s tough gun laws couldn’t keep illegal weapons from crossing its borders, and the federal government needed to help. “We are not on an island,” he said at the time. With violent crime spiking during and after the

WASHINGTON — President Biden said on Wednesday that states could draw from $350 billion in federal stimulus money to shore up police departments and vowed to crack down on gun dealers who fail to run background checks, as the White House seeks to combat the alarming rise in homicide rates in America’s cities. Mr. Biden’s

Cities across Colorado will now be able to pass their own gun laws under a new bill signed by Gov Jared Polis over the weekend. The Colorado governor signed the bill into law on Saturday, along with two other pieces of legislation expanding background checks for gun sales and creating an office of gun violence

Missouri has become the latest state to throw down a broad challenge to the enforcement of federal firearms laws, as Republican-controlled state legislatures intensify their fierce political counterattack against President Biden’s gun control proposals. A bill signed by Gov. Mike Parson over the weekend — at a gun store called Frontier Justice — threatens a

Updated 4:17 p.m. with new information throughout. AUSTIN — Texans can soon begin carrying a handgun in public without a license or training, after Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation allowing permitless carry Thursday, calling it the “biggest and best” gun law this session. The law takes effect Sept. 1. People 21 and older who can

The Edward J. Schwartz federal courthouse building in downtown San Diego / Photo by Adriana Heldiz U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, a graduate of San Diego State and Western State College of Law, thrust himself into the national spotlight late last week – and into the path of Democrats’ fury – when he deemed California’s

By DON THOMPSONAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor denounced in starkly personal terms a federal judge’s upending of the state’s restrictions on assault weapons as officials announced the filing Thursday of a formal notice that they will appeal the decision. They described last week’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez as an

In a Friday night news dump, a California judge issued a ruling announcing that the state’s assault weapon ban, in place since 1989, was unconstitutional because reasons. It caused a stir primarily for using language that sounded conspicuously like what the National Rifle Association and American militia groups have long been spouting in their newsletters

LAFAYETTE, Calif. (KGO) — There was swift reaction across the Bay Area after a federal judge overturned California’s three-decade long ban on assault weapons. Many are planning an appeal. Steve Sposato of Lafayette was shocked to hear about the Federal judge’s ruling, overturning California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons. Sposato’s wife Jody was was one

Innocent people massacred.Click.Thoughts and prayers.Click.Weeping relatives.Click.Shooter with anger and resentment issues.Click.A well-regulated militia.Click, click, click. On Wednesday in San Jose, nine people died of gunshots fired by Samuel Cassidy, a 57-year-old VTA maintenance worker. Law enforcement authorities said Thursday he was armed with three semi-automatic handguns and 11 ammunition magazines each holding 12 rounds, making

Here’s what you need to know: Nine co-workers were fatally shot at a San Jose rail yard on Wednesday.Credit…Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times The municipal transit worker who the police say shot and killed nine of his colleagues at a rail yard in San Jose was stopped by border officials in 2016,

Here’s what you need to know: “We get up every morning safe in the belief that when we go to work, we will come home to our family and our loved ones,” said Evelynn Tran, acting general manager of the Valley Transportation Authority, site of a workplace shooting on Wednesday. “That did not happen.”Credit…Mike Kai

The would-be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a “notorious gun-grabber” who wants to ban “tens of millions of firearms,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) claimed Wednesday night. Hours earlier, Cotton tried to pin down David Chipman at his confirmation hearing on the question of which “assault weapons” he would

President Biden’s choice to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) struggled under questioning from Republican senators at his confirmation hearing Wednesday, declining to identify which guns he would want banned as assault weapons. “You have called for an assault weapons ban,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told David Chipman during the Senate

Several national organizations representing law enforcement officers are applauding President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ahead of his confirmation hearing Wednesday, according to correspondence obtained by CNN. In a series of letters addressed to the Senate Judiciary Committee, national policing groups endorsed the nomination of David Chipman

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A new group for Asian American gun owners is seeking to gather liberal-minded folks to influence President Joe Biden and other Democrats. AAPI GO, or Asian American and Pacific Islander Gun Owners, was founded by Scott Kane, a self-described classically liberal California resident who has voted for Democrats since 2004. “It’s easy for Democrats and

Days after lawmakers began debating a package of firearm regulation bills at the Colorado Capitol, a Colorado Springs man walked into a birthday party in the early hours of May 9 with a gun, shooting six adults before turning the weapon on himself. All were killed. According to police, the suspect — the boyfriend of

I have lived in Branford since 1975 and was shocked by the recent event where an active shooter was holed was up on Main Street above the local hairdresser, across from a shopping center, and next to other well-known Branford landmarks. I recognize that shootings have become a way of life in the United States,

State of New York is seeking dissolution of the national pro-gun group, had argued the bankruptcy claim was an evasion. The National Rifle Association (NRA) cannot use bankruptcy to reorganise in gun-friendly Texas, a federal judge in Dallas has ruled, handing a defeat to the influential firearms rights group that is facing an effort to

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday took aim at “ghost guns,” proposing to close a loophole that allows people to avoid background checks as they purchase guns without serial numbers. A proposed rule from the Biden administration expands the definition of a firearm to include weapons that can be assembled at home. The homemade weapons allow those barred