For more than 50 years, licensed firearms dealers have been prohibited by federal law from selling handguns to young adults ages 18 to 21. Now, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, has ruled the ban is unconstitutional. The 2-1 ruling by the federal appeals court, whose rulings affect Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia,
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Including a confirmed border commissioner, official budget director and confirmed FDA commissioner July 14, 2021 8:42 AM CNN Posted: July 14, 2021 8:42 AM Originally Published: 14 JUL 21 09:03 ET Updated: 14 JUL 21 09:25 ET By Liz Stark, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is facing a border crisis without a confirmed border
Dear Texas House District 45 Member: Your State Representative, Erin Zwiener, has fled the State of Texas on a private jet to Washington, D.C. to avoid a special session of the Texas Legislature. And, none other than BETO ”Hell Yeah, I’ll Take Your Guns” O’Rourke is busy fundraising on social media to finance this junket! While Rep. Zwiener refuses to come
Laws preventing firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under age 21 are unconstitutional, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling that stands to have implications for efforts to restrict such sales nationally. In a divided decision, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., said
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President Biden meets with local leaders and law enforcement at the White House. A federal appeals court on Tuesday said that banning sales of handguns to individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 is a violation of the Second Amendment. In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturned
By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Top Democrats are quietly moving to lock down support for President Joe Biden’s imperiled nominee to head a key agency overseeing firearms — while also struggling to find consensus on a slimmed-down bill to expand background checks for gun sales — the latest example of how the politics
This story was first published at The Progressive. The United States is locked and loaded. This nation has more guns than people and, not surprisingly, an appalling level of gun violence. The gun homicide rate in the United States is nearly eight times higher than the rate in Canada, and a whopping 100 times higher
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CHICAGO (CBS) — With gun violence on the rise in Chicago, the U.S. Department of Justice is set to unleash what is being touted as a “Strike Force.” On Tuesday, CBS 2’s Chris Tye took a close look at where the guns being trafficked from before they end up at Chicago crime scenes. One state
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A federal law that for more than 50 years has banned licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults between age 18 and 21 is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a 2-1 opinion, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturned a lower court ruling
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David Chipman’s nomination deadlocked in the Senate Judiciary Committee at the end of June but can still advance to the Senate floor if the chamber votes to discharge him. | Alex Wong/Getty Images As President Joe Biden tries to go on the offensive against rising gun crime, his pick to oversee the nation’s firearm regulations
Nobody was more sensitive to the political peril of gun control than Sen. Joe Manchin III, a Democrat from deep-red West Virginia and a proud gun owner. But standing on the Senate floor five months after 20 children and six adults were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., he told colleagues this was “a defining time
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One of the more common tactics of anti-gun extremists is to make some dramatic statement comparing our nation’s gun laws with some other aspect of everyday life. Every time—not usually or often, but every time—the comparison is wildly inaccurate. One of the more outrageous claims was made in 2016 by then-president Barack Obama (D), who
NEW YORK — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday called on the Justice Department to investigate the National Rifle Association for bankruptcy fraud, saying the financially stable gun-rights group abused the system when it sought bankruptcy protection in the wake of a New York lawsuit seeking to put it out of business. A