President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday aimed at containing the growing threat of machine gun conversion devices and 3D-printed firearms. The order creates the Emerging Firearms Threats Task Force and charges it with providing a report in three months to assess the threat posed by automatic weapons and 3D-printed guns, and with crafting … Read more
A group of state legislators, local politicians and nonprofits on Tuesday launched a national coalition that hopes to circumvent the congressional stalemate on gun reform by pressing for violence prevention efforts at the local level. The coalition, Legislators for Safer Communities, aims to capitalize on the shifting politics of gun reform by focusing more attention … Read more
As Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump took the debate stage Tuesday night, Kentucky law enforcement officers swept the woods for a former Army reservist. They suspected Joseph Couch, 32, of opening fire this week on highway traffic with an AR-15 outside the town of London. The week before, a 14-year-old student … Read more
In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, a steadily growing epidemic continued to burn its path across the United States. Gun violence stole the lives of 45,222 Americans that fateful year, the worst year on record for gun deaths to that point. The path leading to each one of these deaths is layered and complex. … Read more
When Justice Clarence Thomas penned a sweeping reinterpretation of the Second Amendment two years ago, it came as welcome news to opponents of assault weapons bans. Thomas’ ruling in the case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen instructed lower courts to stop balancing the need for public safety against the right … Read more
As he accepted the GOP’s vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) fondly recalled finding 19 loaded firearms stashed in apparently unsecured locations around his grandmother’s home after she died. The Republican National Convention crowd erupted in applause as Vance told the story, days after a shooter tried to assassinate the party’s presidential … Read more
The Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the long-standing “Chevron doctrine” on Friday dealt a major blow to the power of federal agencies. It came as welcome news to gun rights groups. The Biden administration managed to pass a modest gun reform bill two years ago called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. That law strengthened federal funding … Read more
(NewsNation) — Americans purchased an average of 1.3 million guns each month in the first quarter of 2024, data from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System recorded. That totals roughly 5.5 million guns bought from January to April 2024, slightly lower than 2023’s same date range. Firearm purchases decreasing The reports align with … Read more
(NewsNation) — The economy, immigration and abortion are chief among Americans’ topics of interest heading into the first presidential debate of 2024. Most voters will be listening for the candidates’ thoughts on the economy, followed by immigration and abortion, according to the latest NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll. Trump vs. Biden: What they’ve said about Social … Read more
The federal government can continue to limit domestic abusers’ gun rights, according to a landmark ruling issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that helps clarify the conservative-majority court’s thinking on firearm restrictions. In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court affirmed that the federal government can temporarily restrict a person’s right to possess firearms … Read more
