PROVIDENCE − “Think about the places you frequent: Your grocery store, your children’s schools, your places of worship, your favorite club/dance hall, your workplace, your local movie theater, your own front porch. “Frequenting these places should NOT be a death sentence for you and your loved ones,” Sydney Montstream-Quas, chairwoman of the Rhode Island Coalition

Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling on his colleagues to support a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a law enforcement agency that operates under the Department of Justice, after its latest guidance that restricts the ownership of gun components. During a speech on the floor of the House

It’s not generally prudent to criticize the umpire before the start of a ballgame, or the judge who’s expected to consider the constitutionality of the new law you’re proposing. But Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t mince words Wednesday in referring to U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego, who is likely to have the first

Last week, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a handful of legislative proposals aimed at curbing gun violence in the state. Yash Roy 2:16 am, Feb 01, 2023 Staff Reporter Zoe Berg, Senior Photographer Five states currently ban the open-carrying of guns. Connecticut hopes to begin the sixth by the end of this year.  Banning open

Florida lawmakers are pushing legislation that would let citizens carry a concealed gun without having to get a government-issued permit. The move would allow for permitless carry in most states. Republican state House Speaker Paul Renner is captaining the effort with support from GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, who last month urged lawmakers to get it

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Illinois State Police have begun to enforce the state’s new semiautomatic weapons ban. According to The Center Square, ISP said it has taken action against a gun shop business for “openly advertising the sale of banned weapons.” ISP did not say in which county the enforcement action took place, or

It is very rare that anything monumental gets done in America’s political system without strong public support. That’s certainly the case with gun control. The emphasis here is on strong support. What we need to attain that is a hefty gun safety TV ad campaign. Polls have consistently shown that the vast majority of citizens support gun

Diane Denish  |  Corner to Corner In 2013, about this time, I attended a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Tom Udall. It was called “Three Perspectives: Past, Present, Future.” Recently retired U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, newly elected Sen. Martin Heinrich, and Udall were all there. The event was less than a month after the Sandy Hook

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Proposed legislation from Republican lawmakers in Florida would allow residents to carry firearms in the state without a permit, a measure supported by Governor Ron DeSantis and the National Rifle Association.

SACRAMENTO —  It is very rare that anything monumental gets done in America’s political system without strong public support. That’s certainly the case with gun control. The emphasis here is on strong support. What we need to attain that is a hefty gun safety TV ad campaign. Polls have consistently shown that the vast majority of

Since the Dec. 12, 2012, massacre of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the state has passed several laws to restrict and make it more challenging to own and use a firearm. Connecticut has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. On Jan. 26, Connecticut Gov. Ned

Nancy Rotering was relieved when Illinois enacted its new assault weapons ban earlier this month: Had such a law been on the books earlier, the Highland Park mayor told me, her community might have been spared “the agony and the grief” it suffered last year, when a 21-year-old with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire on

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — As more legal challenges to Illinois’ new semiautomatic weapons ban, the Illinois State Police is asking the courts to consolidate the federal lawsuits into one. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the law on January 10th in response to the shooting deaths of seven at the Fourth of July parade in the

State Rep. Niemerg, local sheriffs push back on assault weapons ban A downstate Republican is joining area sheriffs in pushing back against Illinois’ new assault weapons ban. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A downstate Republican is joining area sheriffs in pushing back against Illinois’ new assault weapons ban. Sheriffs in Crawford, Jasper and Lawrence counties are among

Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, whose district includes Uvalde, has unveiled four bills he’s filing to reduce gun violence, increase support for school shooting victims and survivors, and push for accountability for the flawed law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in May.   Several families of the Uvalde school shooting victims

How California got tough on guns By Ben Christopher | CalMatters 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

When the clash escalated into an all-out brawl, one man wearing a “Bikers for Trump” vest exposed a concealed gun he was carrying and threatened to start shooting unless the angry protesters circling him would “back the f— off”. I was standing only a few metres away, taking notes for an article. Needless to say,

Once again the United States is seared by screams, shots, blood, sirens and politicians’ calls for thoughts and prayers, leaving Americans asking once again: What can be done to break the political stalemate on gun policy so that we can save lives? For decades, we’ve treated gun violence as a battle to be won rather

All the names of the dead from one California mass shooting had not yet been released when the news alerts started again on Monday afternoon: there had been another shooting. There was another gunman at large. Seven more people were dead. Gun violence takes a daily toll in California, but the brutality, scale and pace

Springfield, Ill. — Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, a federal lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association Tuesday claims. The powerful NRA joined a parade of gun-rights activists seeking to toss out the newly minted prohibition on dozens of rapid-fire pistols and long

The Illinois legislature made waves this month when it passed one of the first “assault weapon” bans in the last two decades. But the Land of Lincoln isn’t the only state considering major changes to its gun laws. As the state legislative season gets underway, dozens of states will vote on everything from universal background

California has the strictest gun control laws in the nation, but accounts for 14% of mass shooting fatalities in the U.S., the second largest number of fatalities behind Texas, according to Mother Jones’ mass shooting database. California currently requires background checks and concealed carry permits, while banning “assault weapons,” ghost guns, high-capacity magazines and handgun purchases under the age

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Governor Gretchen Whitmer said last December she was ready to deliver on some ‘common sense’ gun safety issues. In her State of the State address on Wednesday, she will do just that. Last December at the executive residence, the governor confirmed that she would push for gun control safety measures, but

In this most recent legislative session, a series of gun control regulatory bills have been introduced to the Washington state Senate Law and Justice Committee and the House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee. The four bills introduced into the legislature include regulations of the transfer of firearms, changes to some open carry laws, the ability

Illinois lawmakers wasted no time in the new legislative session, taking just five days to pass major gun safety measures that include a ban on semi-automatic rifles, high-capacity magazines and gun attachments that simulate automatic fire. In signing the legislation, which garnered a handful of Republican votes, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said he wanted to

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s assault weapons ban signed into law last Wednesday had gun owners up in arms about the move they claim is a constitutional violation. The Protect Illinois Communities Act effectively bans the manufacture and ownership of high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as firearms deemed as “assault weaponS” and has come under fire

OLYMPIA, Wash. — On Tuesday, family members of mass shooting victims called on legislators in Olympia to ban the sale of assault weapons. AR-15-style weapons have been used in several mass shootings, including at a Las Vegas concert in 2017, where Carrie Parsons was among 58 people killed. “No one was targeted that night. They

OLYMPIA, Wash. — On Tuesday, family members of mass shooting victims called on legislators in Olympia to ban the sale of assault weapons. AR-15-style weapons have been used in several mass shootings, including at a Las Vegas concert in 2017, where Carrie Parsons was among 58 people killed. “No one was targeted that night. They

(The Center Square) – People spoke out for and against a bill that would repeal Washington state’s preemption statute, which gives the Legislature the primary authority to regulate firearms, during a Tuesday morning public hearing held by the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee. House Bill 1178 would allow a city, municipality, or county to

President Joe Biden said on Monday that AR-15 rifles wouldn’t help Americans in an armed conflict with the federal government. Biden made the comments during the National Action Network’s (NAN) annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast in Washington, where he vowed to ban what he called “assault weapons,” referring to semiautomatic sporting rifles in the style of an