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History
The NRA talking point was discredited almost 50 years ago.
Politics
The Republican presidential hopeful's rhetoric on gun laws is an idiosyncratic mix of red meat and deviations from his party's script.
Data
"They’ll ask about my family... about how I protect myself, details about my home."
Q & A
Left for dead in the 1978 Jonestown massacre, the California congresswoman revisits the episode that sparked her career-long crusade for gun reform.
Armed With Reason
Research indicates that campus carry won't make colleges safer.
The 41st president’s iconoclastic brand of Republicanism led him to take a stand against the gun group's rhetoric of fear.
The Business of Guns
“When I saw those Christians being murdered on the beach, I knew these guns could make a difference over there,” says TrackingPoint's founder.
Culture
Who decides how kids are taught the Second Amendment?
Open Carry
A community meeting in Houston raises the latest questions about policing the open carry of firearms in urban settings.
Here’s what we know (and don't know) about how Jeremy McPike did it.