Pre-Regulation, Gun Silencers Showed Up at Some Horrific Crime Scenes
Second Amendment activists and their Republican allies in Congress are pushing to slash…
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The Attacks That Killed the Most Police Officers in the Last 100 Years
Most of the incidents were shootings.
That Time the NRA Tied the Tiananmen Square Massacre to American Gun Rights
Why Time and Newsweek refused to run the group's startling ad.
The NRA Has Been Making the Same Slippery Slope Argument Since 1934
Firearms manufacturers and the gun lobby now act in lockstep, but it wasn’t always that way.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Didn’t Want Guns on Their College Campus
This 1824 document banned firearms for the future students of the University of Virginia.
Does the Bible Enshrine a ‘God-Given Right’ to Shoot in Self Defense?
Backers of a Mississippi bill extending Stand Your Ground to houses of worship are the latest gun-owning Christians to claim the support of scripture, but their views may have more earthly origins.
Nancy Reagan's Gun Reform Legacy
Because of her influence, gun lobbyists can't claim Ronald Reagan as a strong supporter of their views.
Twenty Years Ago, a Gun Industry Exec Got Fed Up with How Many Firearms Wind Up in Criminal Hands.
So he blasted his fellow insiders for aiding the black market in this forgotten trade magazine op-ed.
New York Times Staffers Used to Hold Shootouts for Thanksgiving Turkeys
It’s one of the newspaper's Rifle and Pistol Club traditions that lives on in the archives of the “Little Times” newsletter.
This 1968 Report Debunks the Claim That Gun Control Led to the Holocaust
The NRA talking point was discredited almost 50 years ago.
Watch Robert F. Kennedy Push for Tougher Gun Laws in Roseburg, Oregon 47 Years Ago
"With all the violence and murder and killings we’ve had in the United States," the Democratic candidate said, two weeks before his death, "I think you will agree that we must keep firearms from people who have no business with guns or rifles.”
Vermont’s Long, Strange Trip to Gun-Rights Paradise
Why the Green Mountain State and its singular history are to thank for new laws that allow the concealed carry of guns without a permit.