This week, tearful but tenacious families of the 19 children murdered in their Uvalde classrooms at Robb Elementary School marked Día de Muertos, Day of the Dead, by marching on the Texas capitol to both honor their lost children and reiterate their (futile) months-long pleas for sensible gun reform from Gov. Greg ‘Could-Have-Been-Worse’ Abbott and

Courtesy of GPA Photo Archive (Flickr PDM) Priority Number One The woman or man we elect every four years to wear the label of “President of the United States of America” has many duties, many responsibilities. She or he is a public servant, and their most important promise is contained in the oath of office,

Beneath the still-gleaming white dome, the US Capitol’s new generation of promising leaders are jockeying for position, staking their turf, marking their hydrants and swapping last-minute promises for next year’s power. Today we will mainly be speaking to just one category of our promising new leaders: The ones who want the American populace to know

Mike Sweeney: Distracted driving: I toppled over expecting the worst On 10/23/22 I stopped on my e-bike at a four-way stop (6th & Alpine southbound). I saw a car coming down the hill, but having come to a complete stop, I proceeded. The car came through the stop sign straight at me without stopping for

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. The Second Amendment reads: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Traditionally, this was seen as a barrier to the federal government running roughshod over the states,

The heads of the Oregon police chiefs and sheriffs associations have submitted statements to a federal judge, saying their agencies are unprepared and not staffed or funded to support a permitting program for prospective gun buyers as required under Measure 114, which is supposed to take effect Thursday. Jason Myers, a retired Marion County sheriff

On the eve of the first oral arguments to decide whether to delay Oregon’s narrowly passed gun control measure, a third lawsuit was filed against the state. Backed by the NRA, the suit argues that Ballot Measure 114 creates a “falsely labeled permit to purchase” a firearm requirement and bans standard capacity magazines, which it

Oregon’s strict new gun control limits will go into effect Thursday as things currently stand. However, that could change as early as Monday. A federal judge last week heard arguments on the first court challenge to Oregon Measure 114. After a two-hour hearing, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said she’ll issue a written ruling

Oregon’s strict new gun control limits will go into effect Thursday as things currently stand. However, that could change as early as Monday. A federal judge last week heard arguments on the first court challenge to Oregon Measure 114. After a two-hour hearing, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said she’ll issue a written ruling

News that the state legislature will once again look hard at gun-safety legislation is hardly surprising in the wake of the mass murder at Club Q. If you look back at the years when the Colorado legislature passed versions of gun laws, it almost always followed a mass shooting that shocked the state into action.

I got a little preachy last week, calling on you all to shake off the turkey torpor of Thanksgiving and save the world. Fix our national gun crisis, I said, and while you’re at it, stop global warming and climate change. I’m sorry. And I’m not. I’m sorry because who am I to rally the

A federal judge Friday heard sharply contrasting arguments about whether gun control Measure 114′s regulations are constitutional in what she described as a very complicated case amid a new legal landscape. After a two-hour hearing, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said she’ll issue a written ruling early next week on whether to grant a

Comment on this story Comment Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) tells us that “in times such as these … I question why terrible, horrific things happen … I question why we lose innocent loved ones” [“Hundreds gather in Chesapeake to mourn victims of Walmart shooting,” Metro, Nov. 29]. The answer: We have nearly 400 million

One of the strictest gun control laws in the nation is facing a new National Rifle Association-backed legal challenge as a federal judge prepares to decide whether to delay the measure’s implementation. Two former Oregon lawmakers, a sporting goods store, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Oregon State Shooting Association — the NRA’s

Fights over gun laws usually unfold in state houses and on Capitol Hill. But an Inland gun rights political action committee has its sights set more locally. The Inland Empire Gun Owners PAC works to elect local leaders who share its perspective on the right to bear arms. It also pitches in on lawsuits to

OPINION: President Biden told reporters over Thanksgiving that he would use the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress to do something he has wanted to do for decades. He wants to ban what he routinely calls “assault weapons,” a term that includes virtually all other semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns. Reasonable heads may try to walk

The National Rifle Association’s Oregon affiliate, joined by two former state lawmakers, an Oregon sporting goods store and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Thursday filed the third lawsuit challenging Measure 114, a day before a judge hears arguments on whether to delay the gun control measure from taking effect. The suit contends the measure imposes

Opinion editor’s note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom. ••• Over the summer, President Joe Biden achieved a modest but importantly bipartisan accord on gun reforms. Now the fragile coalition of senators who helped forge that agreement faces a more serious challenge: reinstating the federal

If you are Jewish and live in America, now is the time to carry a firearm. Thanks to a recent National Rifle Association victory in NYSRPA v. Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects our right, any law-abiding American’s right, a Jew’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside our

As everyone knows, guns don’t kill people—bullets do. Georgia GOP Goddess Majorie Taylor Greene tells us the Second Amendment guarantees us the right to buy guns on the same day they don’t kill people. And after all, how can we be safe without guns—you want to bring a knife to a gun fight? (That would

Republicans support guys with guns because they hide behind the 2nd Amendment and cower before the NRA. They support criminals who are murdering our kids and neighbors. The GOP has gone soft on crime. That has to change. We have an epidemic of gun crimes in the United States right now. It needs to stop.

On Monday White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre said President Biden’s Thanksgiving Day criticism of semiautomatic firearms was actually meant to be directed toward “assault weapons.” Real Clear Politics noted that their reporter, Philip Wegmann, asked Jean-Pierre about Biden’s comment: The president has said repeatedly that he wants to ban assault weapons, but on Thanksgiving

U.S. gun death rates have surged at a record pace during the COVID-19 pandemic and are rising the fastest among Black men, according to a sweeping new study published Tuesday. The federal government recorded 1,110,421 shooting deaths and gun suicides between 1990 and 2021. In those 32 years, the rate of gun deaths from all

State Rep. Jim Durkin is an endangered species — a socially moderate, fiscally conservative gentleman who plays well with others. Now, the reasonable dad of the Illinois Republican Party has had enough, post-election. He picked up his keys, and he is going for a drive. As his wife, I am happy for him and beyond

The recent spate of unusually horrific killings – in Chesapeake, Virginia, where a Walmart store manager murdered his own employees, and in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where a gay bar was shot up – has to some extent reopened what has been the something of a closed issue, assault weapons bans. Why are so many people

Courtesy of ROG5728 (Wikimedia CC0) Oregonians approved a stricter multifaceted gun safety law in the recent election. However, before the ballots were fully tallied, the proposed rule was met with claims that limiting magazine capacity to 10 rounds violates the Second Amendment. The problem with establishing gun safety measures begins with the National Rifle Association

A gun control bill that would ban “assault weapons” likely does not have enough votes to make it to President Joe Biden’s desk, Democrats said on Nov. 27. “I’m glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban. The House has already passed it. It’s

And the shootings continue. Should ownership of all ARs be banned? Maybe not yet. In 1991 Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger emphatically stated that NRA lobbyists’ use of the Second Amendment, in coordination with American gun manufacturers to increase gun sales, was “the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.” As badly worded

Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, is facing backlash from Parkland parent Fred Guttenberg over his “constitutional carry” tweet that he made on Saturday. The GOP lawmaker took to Twitter on Saturday morning and tweeted: “Florida should be a Constitutional Carry state.” His tweet has received 18,000 likes and over 5,000 comments as of Sunday