Voters will have three choices for the open 59th District seat Nov. 3: ballot candidates Steve Carra, R-Three Rivers, and Amy East, D-Decatur, and write-in candidate Jack Coleman of Three Rivers, who is running as an independent. Winner of the election will succeed Aaron Miller, who is concluding his third and final two-year term as

Americans have made clear that they value their Second Amendment rights, especially during uncertain times. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and then widespread civil unrest, Americans have bought firearms in record numbers. Through September, the FBI had processed a record-setting 28,826,449 total National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks for 2020. With three months of

A recent article on a gun control news site laments that the COVID-19 pandemic has thwarted ballot initiatives to expand gun bans and restrictions. Initiatives in Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio and Oregon have stalled, allegedly due to the difficulty in collecting signatures. “Without the pandemic, we certainly would have been able to collect the signatures that

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers are working to rewrite the state’s student discipline laws after a Jefferson Parish fourth-grader was suspended because a teacher saw a BB gun in his bedroom during online classes held amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Education Committee backed the legislation without objection Monday, sending the bill by

Yes, that title doesn’t make much sense, but neither does a group that promotes banning firearms starting a national organization called Gun Owners for Safety. Nonetheless, The Hill recently reported that the anti-gun group Giffords is doing just that. This effort is being sold as an expansion of the group’s campaign to fool gun owners at the state

Three candidates — Republican incumbent Vicky Hartzler, Democrat Lindsey Simmons and Libertarian Steven Koonse — are seeking to represent Missouri’s 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives for the next two years. Here’s a look at their backgrounds and positions. Vicky Hartzler Occupation: Incumbent 4th District U.S. representative Education: Bachelor’s degree in education from

He was a celebrated Washington fixture known for his good cheer and bonhomie, and yet even his closest friends knew to stay out of the way when Ralph Z. Hallow was in hot pursuit of a story, as he often was. Nobody could pester, cajole and harangue like Hallow, the chief political correspondent for opinion

Josh Horwitz has been an American gun control activist for nearly 30 years. In 2009, he co-wrote a book warning that the idea of armed revolt against the government was at the center of the US gun rights movement. Now, after a year that has seen heavily armed men show up at state capitols in

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s proposed gun control policy includes a provision that could require every AR-15 rifle be registered under the National Firearms Act of 1934. Unless there were some form of carve-out, this could mandate that American gun owners pay a $200 federal tax per AR-15 that they own. The National Rifle Association’s Andrew

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer is a good bet to win re-election next month. But there’s another way Minnesota’s most powerful Republican could take a political beating this year. As chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Emmer is leading the GOP’s effort to win back a House majority or at least increase their numbers.

This election Utahns will vote on seven different constitutional amendments, a large enough list to potentially confuse voters, experts say. The amendments range from education funding to slavery and vary in how straightforward they are. Adam Dynes, a Brigham Young University political science professor, said voters generally are not well informed on ballot issues and

Democratic U.S. Rep. Sean Casten and Republican challenger Jeanne Ives each raised more than $1 million from their supporters during the year’s third quarter, new financial disclosure reports show. Ives received sizable help from Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. His Cruz 20 for 20 Victory Fund gave Ives’ campaign $71,500 during the period,

Columns share an author’s personal perspective.***** Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s dissent in the 2019 case Kanter v. Barr, an opinion in which she held that people with criminal records for non-violent crimes who haven’t been deemed dangerous should be allowed to possess guns, hasn’t received as much attention in her confirmation hearings

On paper, Minnesota Senate District 4 in the Moorhead and Detroit Lakes area is the kind of place Republicans should run competitive races. Though it’s one of the few regions in Greater Minnesota not currently under GOP control, the underlying numbers for Republicans are promising: voters there picked Donald Trump in 2016 by an 8-point

STORY NEW FUNDRAISING REPORTS SHOW BOTH SEAN PARNELL AND CONNOR LAMB TOOK IN MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS IN JUST THE LAST THREE MONTHS BIG NAMES AND BIG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEESRE GIVING TO BOTH CANDIDATES ADS FOR CONGRESSMAN CANTOR LAMND REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER SEAN PARNELL ARE BLANKETING THE AIRWAVES. TH CANDIDATES HAVE RAISED MILLIONS NEW REPORTS

New documents from a former Cambridge Analytica insider reveal what an election watchdog group claims was illegal coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and a billionaire-funded pro-Trump super PAC. The legal complaint touches on some of the same people involved in today’s hotly contested presidential race and provides a detailed account alleging that Trump’s

Now the 49-year-old writer stood in what he half-jokingly referred to as “enemy territory” — a gun range in the gun-loving state of Virginia — and listened to an instructor named CJ lay out the rules. “No gun-handling in the facility except in the booth, no exceptions whatsoever,” he told Karns. “The gun always points

Michigan Republican Senate candidate John James received campaign contributions and was photographed with the organizer of the rally where conspirators accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer allegedly plotted with a militia to recruit more members. James, along with Vice President Mike Pence, was photographed with Ryan D. Kelley, a Grand Rapids real estate agent

The numbers show Owens far outraised his opponent, freshman Rep. Ben McAdams, in the third quarter, and the candidate has spent a total of $2.4 million in his effort to wrest the seat from Democratic control. Owens reports having a little over $1 million in cash on hand, putting him in a strong financial position