[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced executive actions to curb gun violence, and he pledged to push for change to the country’s firearms laws — his first substantive response to a pair of mass shootings last month that left 18 people dead. “Gun violence in this country is an epidemic, and it’s

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in Congress are trying to pass the first major gun control legislation in more than two decades with the support of President Joe Biden, who said Thursday that it is “long past time” to do so. But they are confronting a potentially insurmountable question over what rules should govern private

[ad_1] Mr. Chipman, an adviser to the gun control organization founded by former Representative Gabrielle Giffords, is a former agent with the A.T.F. Ms. Giffords left Congress after she was shot in the head in a mass shooting in 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. While Mr. Chipman’s selection came as welcome news to gun control groups,

[ad_1] CLOSE President Joe Biden announced executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence. USA TODAY WASHINGTON –  President Joe Biden unveiled his first major steps to address gun violence on Thursday, directing his administration to tighten restrictions on so-called ghost guns, or untraceable weapons that can be constructed from parts purchased online.   The president also announced his nomination of David

[ad_1] Here’s what you need to know: President Biden spoke in the Rose Garden of the White House with Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Thursday.Credit…Amr Alfiky/The New York Times President Biden on Thursday took a modest set of steps to address what he called an “epidemic” of gun violence,

[ad_1] US 00:17 GMT 08.04.2021(updated 01:47 GMT 08.04.2021) Get short URL Calls to implement stricter measures to end gun violence in the United States have strengthened after a recent shooting in Boulder, Colorado, in late March. The killing took 10 lives and is one of the deadliest in the state’s history. The Biden administration on

[ad_1] “The process Mr. LaPierre ­followed to file this bankruptcy case is itself a master class in bad faith and dishonest conduct,” Monica Connell, an assistant New York attorney general, said in court Monday, contending that ­NRA chief executive Wayne La­Pierre concealed the bankruptcy plan from the NRA board and its general counsel until after

[ad_1] The usual “thoughts and prayers” were mouthed or tweeted by state and national politicians. Ted “Cancun” Cruz stated that with the mass murders, the U.S. Senate was treating the incidents as “theater.” In short, after some initial sound and fury, not much will be done. While the residents of Orange, California, and Boulder will

[ad_1] Mike Mozur, Guest columnist Published 8:26 a.m. CT April 5, 2021 Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Some days the newspaper provides true insight of real benefit to readers. Last week, the Pensacola News Journal did us all an important public service in that spirit. The March 26 PNJ article “Santa Rosa

[ad_1] By Julia McPeek We need to move upstream and affect human behavior rather than continuing to pull dead bodies out of the river. Bans have their place but are only dams creating pent up demand, black markets and targets for Second Amendment arms racists to blow up. We need skillfully crafted legislation at the

[ad_1] Few statewide leaders have inherited as many unfinished tasks from their predecessors as incoming California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, whose to-do list includes an ongoing probe of pandemic unemployment fraud, reducing a backlog of guns held by people with felony convictions and resolving a dispute over how to pay for new investigations of fatal

[ad_1] This gat crank, produced by a company called GatCrank, can be attached to a semiautomatic AR-15 to … [+] speed up the rate of fire. Josh Dempsey, GatCrank President Joseph Biden, a Democrat who owns guns, is proposing an aggressive gun control plan that targets assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and ghost guns. But unlike

[ad_1] Graphic by Ben Berman Mass shootings in our supermarkets, spas,  movie theaters, schools, and churches. When will the violence stop? Divided communities of us vs. them, gun control vs. gun rights, freedom-takers vs. freedom-fighters. When will we learn to compromise?  Now is our moment for change.  As individuals and communities, we must begin to dismantle

[ad_1] “As a new resident of Nelsonville, I was surprised by the lovely church bells that grace us with brief playlists throughout the day. I was also surprised by the National Anthem which resounds every day at noon from the Washington Street location. It seems innocuous but I question the motive. Is this a call

[ad_1] The National Rifle Association was quick to chide President Biden over his son Hunter’s reported firearms misadventures, saying that the Democrat should clean up his own house before cracking down on responsible gun owners. The NRA Institute for Legislative Action raised concerns about the Secret Service’s alleged involvement in the search for Hunter Biden’s

[ad_1] Let’s deal with reality, not the National Rifle Association’s fantasy. The all-too-frequent mass shootings, defined by the FBI as having four or more victims, have little to do with “mental problems.” According to the American Psychiatric Association, less than 4% of gun violence — that is all gun violence, not just mass shootings —

[ad_1] Calls for gun control and gun reform came quickly after last Monday’s mass shooting at a King Soopers market in Boulder, Colo. They always do following such incidents, which happen with horrifying frequency. This time gun reform legislation, usually derailed due to bipartisan bickering, is a real possibility. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Sunday

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[ad_1] President Biden on Sunday expressed confidence that a “rational” gun control bill can pass the evenly-divided Senate. In the wake of two deadly mass shootings in two weeks that left 18 people dead, the White House has said Mr. Biden is considering executive action that would bypass the Senate, although Mr. Biden has previously

[ad_1] When President Biden was asked about actions he would take on gun violence prevention and said “it’s a matter of timing,” and pivoted to talk about infrastructure, it wasn’t what Kris Brown had been expecting. “I am disappointed, I will say, at what I heard from him,” said Brown, who is president of Brady

[ad_1] Jerilyn DeCoteau: King Soopers: Employees are family We’ve been shopping at the Table Mesa King Soopers store for 36 years. Our daughter worked there during high school, and again during college.  Some of her co-workers are still there.  One clerk sometimes asks me how she is doing.  My daughter is 45 years old!  They

[ad_1] In the 14 days after the death of George Floyd, 19 people across the country died in violent protests. Not all the deaths were gun-related, and some of the dead were engaged in criminal activity. Nonetheless, the nation responded with shock and talked of little else in the weeks that followed. This week, a

[ad_1] Hello and welcome to this week’s D.C. Memo. Spring has sprung in the District, and I’m enjoying the first cherry blossom blooms despite my allergies’ best efforts to bring me down. Today in the memo: D.C. statehood, gun control, and Minnesota’s connection to a new vaccine passport idea. D.C. statehood under debate again Remember

[ad_1] A mass shooting took place in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22. A social media post claims the NRA is at fault. On March 22, a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people, including a police officer.  A viral tweet claims the National Rifle Association

[ad_1] Colorado’s Republican representative Lauren Boebert has suggested in an interview that hammers are more dangerous than assault weapons in America, despite removing an array of guns from her interview background in the wake of the Boulder mass shooting. Ms Boebert asserted during her interview on Newsmax TV’s National Report that what she called Colorado’s

[ad_1] CLOSE Some Coloradans with close ties to victims of gun violence say they’re optimistic that a renewed push for gun control will be successful after the deadly Boulder mass shooting. (March 23) AP Domestic Six days before opening fire in a Colorado grocery store and killing 10 people, a 21-year-old suspect in the massacre bought

[ad_1] US 03:38 GMT 25.03.2021(updated 03:44 GMT 25.03.2021) Get short URL The Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States reads that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, sparking heated debate between gun advocates and supporters of extended gun control. Yet another round of gun control

[ad_1] Ted Cruz just had another one of his many childish tantrums, this time over the indignity of having to care if the Americans he was elected to govern live or die. The bodies of the ten shot dead by a gunman on Monday in Boulder, Colorado were hardly cold, yet Cruz was far more concerned about the tender

[ad_1] BOULDER, Colo. — Law enforcement officials and former associates of a 21-year-old man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket have described the suspect as prone to sudden rage — and disclosed that he was suspended from high school several years ago for a sudden attack on a classmate that left the

[ad_1] CLOSE Ten people were killed, including a police officer, in a shooting at King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – A series of high-profile mass shootings that have left communities grieving is renewing the country’s fierce debates over the place of firearms in American society and the merits of gun control. In less