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Gun Policy
As Los Angeles considers the latest version of the contentious policy, here are four key things to know about a recurring gun safety fight.
The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 was intended to improve lapses in state record keeping that have allowed dangerous people like Dylann Roof to get a gun. Here’s why almost 90 percent of that money has never been spent.
Domestic Violence
The Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act mimics legislation in South Carolina.
The almost-forgotten story of the Gekas amendment.
Did the FBI ever complete it?
Organizers of one campaign note lack of support from NRA.
Despite murders and suicides, background checks aren't required on customers who rent guns.
Economists on the left and right alike embrace the theory behind the levy the city council president wants to implement. But the political realities are where things get sticky.
Concealed Carry
Inside the long, twisted, and occasionally very personal battle over Ohio's concealed-carry records.
An amendment to the state constitution creating an "unalienable" right to firearms is keeping them in dangerous hands.
The end of the state ban is the latest push to ease access to weapons regulated by the eight-decade-old National Firearms Act.
In Charleston, the president showed a renewed sense of urgency for gun reform. But what about his past efforts?
Why there's no such thing as a negligent gun store, no matter the facts of the case.
A pattern of noncompliance by gun owners gives fresh fodder to anti-regulators.
But expanding them would also require a cultural change.
