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Data
Shunning the FBI’s widely used definition, the numbers circulated by the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker show such attacks to be an almost daily phenomenon.
Gun Policy
The new National Defense Authorization Act also affirms the value of background checks for surplus military pistols.
In Memoriam
The Clackamas Town Center killings were three years ago. Each new high-profile attack brings Jenna Yuille right back to that day.
Gun Rights
The legal morass created when school leaders are forced to go it alone on campus carry.
Hillary Clinton's gun platform would treat such high-volume sellers as "engaged in the business" — and use an executive action to make them part of the background check system.
Campus Carry
Members of the University of Texas community met Monday to discuss the implementation of a new law allowing guns on campus.
A forthcoming Harvard survey suggest that more Americans own a sizable stockpile of firearms than there are residents of Denmark.
Commentary
Jeff Ackerman's News-Review is a case study in why the silent majority of firearm owners is often missing from the gun debate.
History
"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.”
Q & A
Lisa Moore teaches gay and lesbian studies at the University of Texas, where she is a founder of Gun-Free UT. "Shutting down dissent and free speech," she says, "is the opposite of what should happen on a college campus."