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Mass Shooting
Sandy Hook father Lenny Pozner is one of too many parents painfully familiar with the answer. Dogged by a relentless conspiracy theorist, he's spent the past three years fighting to protect the honor of his murdered son.
After the Newtown massacre, Cerberus Capital Management pledged to sell off the Freedom Group. But some of the firm's executives never got out of the gun business.
Commentary
What is the National Rifle Association, if its leader no longer bothers to publicly address or try to redefine the mass shootings that shock the nation?
In Memoriam
Nardyne Jefferies is the unwitting pioneer of an ad-hoc movement to get lawmakers to confront the grisly consequences of gun violence.
Gun Policy
A pattern of noncompliance by gun owners gives fresh fodder to anti-regulators.