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Community Violence
New research contends that a surge in handgun production and possession propelled murder rates in American cites — until new restrictions on firearms reversed the trendlines.
History
Second Amendment activists and their Republican allies in Congress are pushing to slash a more than 80-year-old law regulating the sale of gun silencers. The proposal, included as a plank of the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreation Enhancement Act, has…
Most of the incidents were shootings.
Why Time and Newsweek refused to run the group's startling ad.
Firearms manufacturers and the gun lobby now act in lockstep, but it wasn’t always that way.
This 1824 document banned firearms for the future students of the University of Virginia.
Culture
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.
Gun Policy
Because of her influence, gun lobbyists can't claim Ronald Reagan as a strong supporter of their views.
So he blasted his fellow insiders for aiding the black market in this forgotten trade magazine op-ed.
It’s one of the newspaper's Rifle and Pistol Club traditions that lives on in the archives of the “Little Times” newsletter.
The NRA talking point was discredited almost 50 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.”
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.
