Gun Control

There's a study getting some traction out of the Bloomberg funded Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research that claims Connecticut's handgun law is saving lives. In fact, it's the same study Congressional Democrats are...

"'States require licenses to drive a car or even to fish in local rivers, so requiring a license to buy a deadly handgun is a commonsense step that could save countless lives. This legislation...

TTAG reader MarkPA writes: We all need to ask ourselves: ‘How did we lose all the 2A rights that were lost during the 20th century? Did we lose them in one fell swoop? Or, did...

The civilian disarmament industrial complex seeks to enact an endless series of laws designed to make it difficult for criminals to legally purchase guns. The antis would have you believe that "straw purchases" -...

Following the murder of a New Jersey woman while she was waiting for her firearms license paperwork to crawl through the purposefully slow political system in the state, a number of people have been...

Reuters recently published the results of a study about children involving "weapons violence." From whbl.com: “Millions of children are being exposed to violence involving weapons, and many of them are victimized by guns and...

My J-school prof told me never to put statistics in the opening paragraph. I agree. While the numbers in the chicagotribune.com story Chicago's gun violence up from a year ago, topping 1,000 victims earlier are compelling,...

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has finally brought some clarity - but not much - to the Natural State's open carry law. The right to keep and bear arms openly was thrown into confusion by Act...

Word comes that Rob Bishop (R-UT) has introduced HR 2710, a bill designed to permanently define the "sporting purposes" clauses in federal gun control legislation and remove the ATF's ability to interpret those laws...

AWR Hawkins writes The armed guard who protected Geraldo Rivera as he covered the Baltimore riots for Fox News has been under arrest since May 1 2015. According to the The Baltimore Sun, the guard...

"Ten states and the District of Columbia impose some form of waiting period for buying handguns," startribune.com reports. "Wisconsin's 48-hour period has been in effect since 1976, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau." And...

NRA-ILA writes NRA F-rated Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation to authorize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to give $60 million of the taxpayers’ money to anti-gun activists...