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Concealed Carry
Inside the long, twisted, and occasionally very personal battle over Ohio's concealed-carry records.
Domestic Violence
A bill to extend the criteria for domestic violence victims in Delaware brings fierce pushback from the gun-rights group.
The Gun Lobby
Pro-gun students may be its face, but seasoned right-wing operatives are giving it funding and focus — and using the issue to set up a showdown with the NRA.
Culture
When falling holiday bullets end lives.
Law
A legal odyssey finds its conclusion.
Gun Policy
An amendment to the state constitution creating an "unalienable" right to firearms is keeping them in dangerous hands.
The Business of Guns
The Obama administration keeps blocking the import of nearly a million vintage American-made rifles. But lawmakers aren't ready to lay down arms.
A domestic manufacturer steps in after geopolitics halt the import of the Russian rifle.
"Next thing you know,” says an ex-writer for an NRA magazine, “you’re a communist, socialist, anti-American who hates the Constitution.”
The end of the state ban is the latest push to ease access to weapons regulated by the eight-decade-old National Firearms Act.