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Concealed Carry
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision striking down New York’s concealed carry law, the City Council is exploring one option: a law that would declare any area with more than 10,000 people per square mile a “sensitive location.”
Gun Rights
In striking down New York’s “good cause” permitting law, the justices set a precedent that may imperil licensing regimes in at least five other states.
BRIC TV profiles several Black firearms clubs and gun owners in New York, in the third installment of a series with The Trace.
Twenty years ago, only one state allowed residents to carry firearms without a license. Tennessee just became the 19th state to adopt “permitless carry.”
Extremism
Seeking to radicalize dispirited Trump supporters, far-right groups are invoking the 2nd Amendment and spreading conspiracies about gun confiscation.
The National African American Gun Association was founded as a refuge from the discrimination and fear that often come with being Black and armed in America. Thousands of new members have joined its ranks in 2020.
Gun Policy
Before they instigated some of the earliest protests against COVID-19 shutdowns, the Dorr brothers honed a brand of fiery Second Amendment activism that doesn’t sway lawmakers, but keeps the donations flowing.
Gun-toting protesters swarmed the scene in Richmond. But despite fears, the day was peaceful.
The wave of local resolutions to defy state and federal gun laws has reached more than 400 municipalities in 20 states.
A constitutional scholar explains the challenge to a New York City gun restriction — and its potential to affect the right to bear arms more broadly.
Last summer, as the teen survivors of the Parkland school shooting embarked on a nationwide bus tour in support of gun reform, a group of Second Amendment advocates followed them in an armored Humvee topped with a replica of…
The gun group’s latest tax filings disclose a wealth of new details, including generous executive benefits amid a growing cash crunch and mysterious payments to a former official.
A federal appeals court panel ruled this week that laws banning the open carry of firearms violate the Second Amendment. The finding in the case of Young v. State of Hawaii is surprising in that it came from judges…
The federal indictment of the accused Kremlin spy Maria Butina lays out how the 29-year-old operative infiltrated groups like the National Rifle Association in an attempt to push U.S. politics in a more Russia-friendly direction. American conservatives and Republicans, she told an…
Days after thousands of students across the country walked out in protest against gun violence, one teen activist was busy organizing another mass demonstration — this time in defense of firearms. Will Riley Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad…
