Topline President Joe Biden blamed the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Republicans’ fear of getting “primaried” as the reason behind a lack of legislative progress on gun safety in the U.S. during his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” late on Wednesday night, days after a series of deadly mass shootings rocked the country. Key Facts
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Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grade student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and survivor of the mass shooting appears on a screen during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed
We were planning a Shavuot family gathering in Potomac to visit our great-grandsons and their parents. It was to be a large, crowded, rowdy, family group with all the usual provisos of testing and masking. There would be late night study, games, cheesecake, and all the trimmings. As great-grandparents do, we planned to bring toys
Federal firearms dealers are getting their licenses revoked or not renewed by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms at a much greater rate since President Biden first came to office, a GOP lawmaker said Wednesday. “Federal Firearms Licensees are being denied renewals or their licenses are being taken away at a rate of
When Democrats redrew the state’s Supreme Court districts last year for the first time in 58 years, they hoped the new map would maintain their party’s majority on the court. A longtime Democratic justice had just lost his seat, and state legislators from his party knew that maintaining their 4-3 dominance of the state’s top
Lots of Republicans are close with the gun lobby. But for Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House, the relationship is more like: Until death do us part. Stefanik’s husband, Matt Manda, is the public affairs manager for the firearm industry’s top trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Despite the sporty branding, NSSF
The power of the gun rights lobby and organizations like the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C., is well-known, where groups opposed to tighter gun laws spend millions to support mostly Republican candidates. The National Rifle Association’s NRA Political Victory Fund also donates to powerful Republicans in North Carolina. During the 2020 elections, the NRA’s
US law makers have responded to recent mass shootings by voting to set a minimum age of 21 for buying semi-automatic weapons. The United States House of Representatives vote was part of a wide-ranging gun control bill passed on Wednesday, which proposes raising the minimum age for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle and bans selling ammunition
All doubt has been removed as to the plans of lawmakers in Providence. They see the most recent pair of tragedies committed by heinous criminals in other states as a prime opportunity to pass bills that they have been trying to pass for years. The House Judiciary Committee has three gun bills on the agenda
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried expressed both hope and urgency Wednesday as she outlined stakes in a challenge to the state’s gun law preemption penalties, before the Supreme Court of Florida Thursday. The Supreme Court is to hear arguments in the case challenging the 2011 state law that provides financial penalties to local officials who would
I have reported on Washington’s response to gun violence in one way or another since the shooting in Charleston left nine Black worshippers dead in 2015. Then came the Pulse nightclub, a shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas, and the shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. I covered the March for
Kelly green Converse. High-top shoes with a hand-drawn heart over her right toes. This is how the parents of 10-year-old Maite Rodriguez identified their daughter’s body in Uvalde. By her sneakers. Too many Americans have walked a path that should not have been deadly, their lives taken. Uvalde was the 213th mass shooting of the
Today, the House Administration Committee voted to advance House Bill 450, to ban many commonly-owned firearms, and House Bill 451, to deprive young adults of their Second Amendment rights. The Committee allowed individuals who traveled to Dover only one minute of testimony in the hearing. When the constitutionality of these bills was brought up by witnesses, Democratic members
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Anti-gun politicians in Harrisburg are pushing for a whole host of anti-gun bills, ranging from semi-auto bans to “red flag” laws. They have been pushing for gun control for years, and now they are seizing the opportunity by exploiting tragedies in other states. Democrat leaders in both the House and the Senate have laid plans
A glimpse through campaign materials from Republican U.S. Senate candidates Joe O’Dea and Ron Hanks gives the impression the rivals are running separate races. O’Dea, a Denver native who owns a construction company, singles out U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, the Democratic incumbent; Hanks, a state representative from Cañon City, highlights O’Dea’s openness to Roe v.
The nationwide call for stronger gun laws in the aftermath of mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and the over 200 other places where such tragedies took place so far in 2022 is understandable. It’s also predictable. Whether efforts to pass new federal or state laws to raise the minimum age for buying semiautomatic rifles, expand