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Gun Policy
The new president can't deliver on his vow to gut the Gun-Free School Zones Act on day one. But Republican lawmakers are laying the groundwork.
Campus Carry
Bills to end training and licensing requirements for concealed carry and to allow guns on college campuses loom as pivotal fights for 2017.
The Gunfighters
A child is gunned down for stealing change in heavily armed St. Louis, and Missouri gets a taste of what justice looks like when the NRA calls the shots.
Year in Review
Fear is a killer salesman.
Commentary
The gun group has attacked the legitimacy of mainstream journalism for decades.
Concealed Carry
Police are recovering greater numbers of high-caliber firearms from crime scenes — a trend experts say could be driving up lethality rates.
Gun Theft
Nearly 850 firearms were stolen in the city last year, and those are just the ones police know about.
National Rifle Association
Scott Meltzer says the group tells members they are 'crusaders’ fighting a corrupt elite class to make America great again.
If a man from Utah wanted to drive from Salt Lake City to Virginia Beach with a pistol strapped under his coat and a concealed carry permit from his state in his wallet, he could legally do so — just…
The president-elect can chip away at restrictions, but he won’t possess the unilateral power he imagined as a candidate.