Advocates of gun-law reform face an uphill battle to push their ideas through the Republican-controlled Indiana General Assembly, but say public sentiment on firearms safety may be moving some to action. Groups seeking to change Indiana gun laws say recent high-profile shooting incidents heighten the need for universal background checks, storage regulations, raising the minimum
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Tuesday was yet another day that left a good number of shaken Chico residents wondering “What in the world is going on here?” A Code Red shut down four Chico Unified School District locations as well as Chico State after someone reported seeing a man with a gun on a campus. Chico Police quickly responded
On July 6, 2003, three months into the second Iraq war, I showed up at 1150 Seventeenth Street NW in Washington, D.C. I had just turned 22. It was my first day as an editorial assistant at the Weekly Standard. At the time, 1150 Seventeenth Street was more than an office building. It was an
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An Omaha, Nebraska, university ordered a student organization to remove political posters depicting guns and slogans that some found offensive, according to reports. The College Fix, a conservative news website focused on higher education, reported that Creighton University has a ban on pro-Second Amendment poster, and members of the Young Americans for Liberty are currently
When the clash escalated into an all-out brawl, one man wearing a “Bikers for Trump” vest exposed a concealed gun he was carrying and threatened to start shooting unless the angry protesters circling him would “back the f— off”. I was standing only a few metres away, taking notes for an article. Needless to say,
COURTESY PHOTO / ROBWITTMAN.COM The 2022 midterm elections resulted in Republicans gaining control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time in four years. Following the 2020 census and the subsequent congressional redistricting of Virginia, Williamsburg moved into Virginia’s 1st Congressional District (VA-01) in time for the midterms. As the constituents of
Assault style weapons are displayed for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply on Jan. 16, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo / Seth Perlman, File) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, a federal lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association Tuesday claims. Thanks to our sponsors:
A gun safety advocacy non-profit founded by former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords announced the launch of a new chapter in Montana on Wednesday. According to a press release, Gun Owners for Safety is a coalition of hunters, sport shooters and collectors, have come together to advocate for common sense gun violence prevention laws and promote
Jan 25 (Reuters) – In a span of less than 72 hours, a massacre at a Monterey Park dance studio and a killing spree at two farms in Half Moon Bay left California in anguish. One man carried out his attack with a gun banned by the state, while the other used a gun he
Once again the United States is seared by screams, shots, blood, sirens and politicians’ calls for thoughts and prayers, leaving Americans asking once again: What can be done to break the political stalemate on gun policy so that we can save lives? For decades, we’ve treated gun violence as a battle to be won rather
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has seen a drastic fall in the number of donations made to its political action committee, according to a new report. Ahead of November’s midterm elections, donations to the NRA’s Political Victory Fund dropped more than 40 percent from the 2020 election and plummeted 45 percent from the 2018 midterms.
A lone gunman unleashed a rapid-fire barrage of bullets from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel late Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500 others attending a country music festival below, officials said. It was the worst mass shooting in modern American history, and Stephen Craig Paddock was “solely
Eight days, 25 dead: California shaken by string of mass shootings A series of four attacks have upended communities across the state, from a city to farming towns All the names of the dead from one California mass shooting had not yet been released when the news alerts started again on Monday afternoon: there had
Jan 25 (Reuters) – In a span of less than 72 hours, a massacre at a Monterey Park dance studio and a killing spree at two farms in Half Moon Bay left California in anguish. One man carried out his attack with a gun banned by the state, while the other used a gun he
Law enforcement, including the San Mateo County Sheriff’s department, investigate a shooting off of Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay on Monday. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) History is full of horrific events in which we shake our heads and ask, “How did that happen? What were they thinking?” The Holocaust and slavery are
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he looks forward to the day when the National Rifle Association (NRA) “is obsolete” after the gun-rights group called him a hypocrite for his remarks on the Second Amendment while flanked by armed guards. The NRA criticized Newsom after he told “CBS Evening News” that the Second Amendment was becoming
When I was a kid, I got a kick out of picking up a fake rifle tethered to a counter at the Seaside Heights boardwalk and hitting as many targets as possible. Nailing the one over the guy at the piano was the shot because he’d start playing a tune. That was the extent of my childhood