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Senate Rejects Bill To Close Gun Background Check Loophole

The U.S. Senate today rejected a bill that would have closed a major loophole in federal gun laws by subjecting firearm purchases made at gun shows and online to background checks....more

4/18/2013 - Background Checks Firearms Gun Laws NRA

States Review Mental Health Policies in Wake of Sandy Hook

Connecticut is launching two task forces to examine mental health treatment in the state, following last year’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 children and six adults dead. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is...more

2/7/2013 - Gun Laws Mental Health Policies Sandy Hook School Shootings

Obama Signs 23 Executive Orders Aimed at Gun Violence

President Barack Obama announced the recommendations of Vice President Joe Biden’s gun task force today, suggesting new legislation to Congress for expanded background checks and an assault weapons ban, as well as signing 23...more

1/18/2013 - Affordable Care Act Assault Weapons Ban ATF Background Checks Barack Obama Executive Orders Gun Laws Joe Biden Second Amendment

War Over Gun Controls Explodes Nationwide

Vice President Joe Biden met this week with government officials, victims of gun violence, retailers, media executives and firearm advocates on both sides of the issue as part of a task force designed to look for ways to...more

1/12/2013 - Brady Foundation Gun Laws Joe Biden Mass Shootings NRA Sandy Hook School Shootings Second Amendment

NRA Calls for More Guns in Schools

In a tone-deaf response to the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday that left 26 dead, including 20 children, the National Rifle Association this morning blamed “gun-free” zones for the massacre...more

12/24/2012 - Gun Laws NRA Sandy Hook School Shootings Wayne LaPierre

School Shooting Prompts New Look at Gun Laws

In an unthinkable tragedy, a gunman on Friday killed 26 people in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., including 20 children, before he took his own life. Adam Lanza, 20, shot his mother to death in her house before...more

12/18/2012 - Assault Weapons Ban Barack Obama Concealed Weapons Gun Laws Mass Shootings Sandy Hook School Shootings Second Amendment

Federal Court Tosses Illinois Concealed Carry Ban

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday threw out an Illinois law banning concealed handguns, which had been the nation’s only blanket law against concealed carry. Lawmakers will have 180 days to rewrite the...more

12/14/2012 - Concealed Weapons Firearms Gun Laws Second Amendment

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