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Senate Sits on Gun Reform

By Shannon Watts

Father of Parkland Shooting Victim Escorted From State of the Union After Protest

By Mahita Gajanan

21 States File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over 'Dangerous' Changes to Federal Firearm Regulations

By Josiah Bates

These Businesses Say They've Got What You Need to Survive a Mass Shooting

By Melissa Chan
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U.S. Stores Are Asking Customers To Stop Openly Carrying Weapons—But Can They Actually Enforce a Restriction on Guns?

Supermarket and pharmacy chains across the U.S. have begun asking customers to not openly carry firearms in their stores, including in states where open carry is legal. It's a trend that appears to have been...

By Mahita Gajanan

In Fundraiser Email, State GOP Chief Says She Wants to Stop Arizona Senate Candidate 'Dead in His Tracks'

The stark wording was directed at Mark Kelly, whose wife is former Rep. and mass shooting survivor Gabby Giffords

By Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg

Kroger Joins Walmart in Asking Customers to Stop Openly Carrying Guns in Stores After Mass Shootings

The store acknowledged those "no longer comfortable with the status quo" on guns

By Katie Reilly

What It’s Like to Attend an Active-Shooter Training After the El Paso and Dayton Attacks

The succession of tragedies has prompted more and more Americans to take special precautions, for themselves as well as their children.

By Abby Vesoulis / Lynchburg, Va.

Background Checks Won't Stop Shootings, But Are Needed

Many public health experts agree background checks are a crucial part of efforts to limit gun deaths

By Tara Law

Picking Twitter Fights

Just a few hours after President Donald Trump visited with first-responders and people wounded in a shooting that claimed nine lives in Dayton, Ohio, he lashed out at the city’s mayor and Ohio Sen. Sherrod...

By Tara Law

'May I Give You a Hug?'

Yvonne Loya sat against a metal railing on a curb overlooking the Walmart. She held her head in her hands as her kids worked on a poster with colored markers on the concrete in front...

By Lissandra Villa / El Paso, Texas

Dayton Mayor Criticizes Trump Ahead of Presidential Visit

Trump confirmed that he intends to visit both El Paso and Dayton on Wednesday

By Tara Law

Obama Responds to El Paso, Dayton Shootings

'No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do'

By Josiah Bates

Trump Blames Everything But Guns

"Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun."

By Tessa Berenson

Our Republican Colleagues in the Senate Must Act to Break the Cycle of Gun Deaths

Another week, another community ripped apart by a mass shooting. Most recently it was Virginia Beach, where a shooter on May 31 killed 12 people in a municipal building. In early May it was a...

By Chris Murphy and Dianne Feinstein

A Quick Guide to the Big Ideas in the Democratic Primary

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is centered on some big ideas. While some of the 20 candidates for the nomination have stayed away from specifics so far, a handful have shared some dramatic and detailed...

By Ryan Teague Beckwith

Trump Un-Signs Gun Treaty

With Democrats in Congress reluctant to work with him on legislative proposals, President Donald Trump has been casting about for actions he can take on his own. When it comes to guns, he has long...

By Brian Bennett

What Gun Control Advocates Should Learn from the NRA

Activist and author Igor Volsky argues for taking lessons from the gun lobby's success

By Joey Lautrup

School Shootings Are Becoming the New Normal

It has become a waking national nightmare, a recurring horror that we can't explain or defend but that we are condemned to repeat. We know it will happen again. We seem helpless to stop it....

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Justice Stevens Wants to Repeal the Second Amendment. Here’s Why That’s So Hard

Gun control groups won't go near the idea

By Alana Abramson
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