The ATF, charged with policing the gun industry, lets dealers get away with falsifying records and selling firearms without background checks.
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Open Carry
An investigation into whether the Denver Broncos player illegally carried a firearm into a club underscores that new open carry legislation has limits.
Election 2016
Kay Hagan’s 2014 loss in North Carolina showed how far upstart gun violence prevention organizations may have to go to match the NRA when it spends big.
Law Enforcement
The opioid addiction crisis is the latest headache for New England officials trying to stop interstate gun trafficking.
National Rifle Association
Gun lobby support for congressional Democrats has plunged. So far in 2016, the NRA has given just $1,000 to a single candidate.
Law
The legal move is their latest effort to avoid revealing industry secrets.
Domestic Violence
Law enforcement had no way to be sure Eulalio Tordil was in full compliance with his protective order, and now three people are dead.
New voter models show that in the Democratic primary, the issue resonates most where electoral prizes are biggest.
Ted Strickland, the frontrunner in the party’s Ohio Senate primary, has recanted views that once won him an A+ rating from the NRA. His challenger, P.G. Sittenfeld, takes a lot of the credit.
John Snyder is a colorful and devout powerbroker who once convinced another candidate to support his crusade for a “patron saint of handgunners.”
Politics
The idea to expand background checks by clarifying the “engaged in the business” rule for private sellers was in development for most of the president’s second term. Did its release come too late?
As governor of Ohio, Kasich quickly adopted the GOP’s pro-gun stance — even though he’s “not a gun guy.”
In 2003, he voted for a version of gun industry immunity that was even friendlier to the firearm lobby.
Gun Policy
Supporters and opponents of the moves seemed to occupy entirely different universes.
The president's executive actions punctuate Democrats’ emboldened approach to an issue the party is now eager to run on — rather than from.
