[ad_1] UPDATE, Saturday, 6:20 AM PT: President Biden signed the bipartisan gun safety bill into law on Saturday, saying that “time is of the essence” and “lives will be saved” by the legislation. “While this bill doesn’t do everything I want, it does include actions I have long called for,” Biden said, calling it a

[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load Fifteen Republicans in the Senate and 14 in the House joined with congressional Democrats this week to break more than 25 years of inaction on gun safety. That these Republicans, many of whom had ratings of A or A-plus from the National Rifle Association, defied the gun lobby with

[ad_1] The Supreme Court’s decision today to overturn Roe v. Wade has evoked a massive response across the country. It will undoubtedly have major effects on reproductive rights locally and nationally, but there’s also another potential game-changer at the federal level in the form of a “red flag” gun law headed to the President’s desk.

[ad_1] The House of Representatives voted 234-193 on Friday to give final approval to a compromise gun bill that won some bipartisan support after last month’s horrific mass shootings in a Buffalo, New York supermarket and a Texas elementary school in Uvalde. In a mostly party-line vote, the Democratic-led House quickly passed the bill that

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — The House sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades on Friday, a measured compromise that at once illustrates progress on the long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists. The Democratic-led chamber approved the election-year legislation on a mostly party-line 234-193 vote,

[ad_1] “Do something, do something, do something!” In 2019, as Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tried to console mourners at a vigil for nine people killed by a gunman in a Dayton entertainment district, people in the audience took up the chant that became a slogan of the Ohio gun control movement. Not much happened in

[ad_1] Massive black fences surround the Supreme Court building in Washington in expectation of mass protests against the pending ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. With its decision to strike down a New York gun control law, the right-wing majority on the Court has given people another reason to demonstrate. | Jose Luis Magana / AP

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ron Perlman was confronted by angry social media users after he voiced his opinion following Thursday’s Supreme Court 6-3 ruling striking down a nearly century-old New York state law which restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in public. “The latest Supreme Court

[ad_1] “Many have come to doubt whether we’re capable of making our institutions work, including the world’s greatest deliberative body, “ Cornyn said. “And we proved that we can when sufficiently inspired … to come together and find common ground that will help keep our communities safer, protect our children and save lives.” The gun

[ad_1] The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that places restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home – an opinion marking the widest expansion of gun rights in a decade. “Because the State of New York issues public-carry licenses only when an

[ad_1] The Supreme Court said Thursday that law-abiding Americans generally have a right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense, striking down a New York law requiring a special need for such a permit and putting at risk similar laws in five other states. The court’s decision clears the way for legal challenges

[ad_1] The Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at stanching acts of mass gun violence, with 15 Republicans joining Democrats to advance a bill combining modest new firearms restrictions with $15 billion in mental health and school security funding. The 65-to-33 vote represented an unlikely breakthrough on the emotional and polarizing question of U.S. gun

[ad_1] The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to expand gun rights will have deadly and far-reaching repercussions, gun safety advocates warned Thursday, condemning the high court’s first major ruling on a Second Amendment case in more than a decade. In a 6-3 decision, the justices struck down a concealed-carry provision in New York that requires gun owners

[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load President Biden’s proposed federal gas tax holiday for three months (along with encouragement for states to suspend their own gas taxes) is not a reasonable remedy for inflation. Gun legislation moving through the Senate (and then the House) falls pathetically short of what’s needed to address gun violence. Yet

[ad_1] In the aftermath of the Uvalde mass school shooting, the Texas senator John Cornyn is facing backlash from his own Republican party for being a lead negotiator on the bipartisan gun reform bill, the most significant legislation on gun control in America in decades. At the state’s annual Republican convention recently held in Houston,

[ad_1] In response to rising social anger over mass shootings at schools, grocery stores, churches, malls, sporting events and virtually every other public space in the United States, in a procedural vote on Tuesday, the Senate advanced the 80-page Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Leading senators have indicated that they expect the bill to clear the

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! John Mellencamp is slamming politicians for their lack of action and “vague” new gun control laws following the Uvalde, Texas, mass shootings in May that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary. “Only in America, and I mean only, in America, can 21 people

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – The country has long endured a numbing succession of mass shootings at schools, places of worship and public gathering places. None forced Congress to react with significant legislation — until now. Last month, a white shooter was accused of racist motives in the killings of 10 Blacks in a supermarket in Buffalo,

[ad_1] “As we gather here today, the next shooter is already plotting his attack while the federal government pretends it can do nothing to stop it,” David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, told a crowd of tens of thousands in the US capital, Washington, on Saturday. The event, which featured speeches from other

[ad_1] A bipartisan gun bill passed a key procedural hurdle in the Senate late Tuesday that clears the way for the chamber to take up the measure later this week as lawmakers scramble to ensure final passage before Congress leaves for a two-week recess.  The Senate voted 64-34 — including 14 Republicans — to advance

[ad_1] The National Rifle Association said it would oppose Congress’s bipartisan effort to tighten the nation’s gun laws after a spate of deadly mass shootings, saying the legislation would place an undue burden on “law-abiding gun owners.” “We will oppose this gun control legislation because it falls short at every level,” the group said in

[ad_1] The Senate on Tuesday broke through nearly 30 years of stalemate on gun control legislation by voting 64 to 34 to advance an 80-page gun safety bill to respond to the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, that left 31 people dead, including 19 school children.   The Senate voted to proceed

[ad_1] The Senate finalized a gun control bill Tuesday following a spate of deadly mass shootings across America — setting up a potential vote on passage before lawmakers break for the July 4 holiday at the end of this week. A bipartisan negotiating group unveiled a framework of a bill on June 12 and had been engaged in frantic talks to hammer out the final text amid public

[ad_1] To the editor June 21, 2022 Another mass shooting and Republicans are saying that assault weapons don’t need to be banned, that facilities just need to have only one door. Sure, one door in schools where children can die trying to get out during a fire, earthquake, tornado, etc. makes sense. The doctor who

[ad_1] The Senate advanced a bill Tuesday night that would toughen federal gun laws and provide billions of dollars in new money to prevent future mass shootings after negotiators settled key disagreements, putting the legislation on course to be passed into law later this month. The breakthrough came more than a week after 20 senators

[ad_1] Article content Mass Shooting is defined as “four or more shot and killed in a single event.” Article content The U.S. already in 2022 at the time of this letter has experienced 198 mass shootings, 27 involving schools resulting in 140 deaths, while in 2020 having 45,222 gun-related deaths. The latest shooting inside a

[ad_1] For nearly a decade, America’s satirical “The Onion” publication has run a headline that’s come to epitomize the futility many people feel in the wake of yet another US gun massacre. “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” reads the title, which the outlet published on Wednesday

[ad_1] As much as I’m enjoying the Jan. 6 committee’s careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a douchebag, I wasn’t seeing much in the way of a criminal offense until this week’s underreported story about how Trump used his “STOP THE STEAL” fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of $250 million,

[ad_1] Think about it this way: There is no army or police department in any halfway civilized country — not even the United States — that would allow an untrained, callow 18-year-old boy like the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter to wear a uniform and carry an AR-15 assault rifle. Not one. Nowhere on Earth. And

[ad_1] “To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment… would result in the demolition of society,” warned political economist Karl Polanyi in his book The Great Transformation, published in 1944. Had Polanyi been alive today, his statement would have found prophetic validation in the