gun regulations

Activists are calling on lawmakers to take action on gun control reform, following a number of mass shootings across the US.

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The House passes a gun control bill in response to the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings

9:22pm June 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

It has almost no chance of becoming law as the Senate pursues negotiations focused on improving mental health programs, bolstering school security and enhancing background checks.

Local officials point to a .50-caliber assault weapon during a 2005 news conference in Chicago, a year before Cook County officials enacted an assault weapons ban. The law has been upheld by trial and appeals courts. On Thursday, a federal appeals court a

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U.S. Appeals Court In Chicago Again Upholds Laws Banning Assault Weapons

7:00pm August 29, 2019

by Bobby Allyn

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that two gun owners who sued Cook County have not persuaded the court to revisit a prior decision declaring local gun ordinances legal.

Brian Kemp, Georgia's Secretary of State, points a gun at a young man in one of his ads for his campaign for governor. It's spurred national outrage.

After Parkland, Some Republicans Try To Outdo Each Other On Gun Rights In Primaries

4:38pm May 08, 2018

by Johnny Kauffman

One campaign ad in Georgia, in which the candidate for governor points a gun at a young man, has spurred national outrage. Clinging to gun rights has been a strategy in some GOP primary races.

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Law enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 15 in Parkland, Fla. A day earlier a gunman opened fire in the school.

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In Florida, Cities Challenge State On Gun Regulation Laws

10:11am April 02, 2018

by Greg Allen

Florida law doesn't just ban local governments from regulating guns, it threatens to fine and remove from office any local officials who do so.

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There are roughly 300 million guns in America today. Gun owners have been thinking deeply about the role of firearms in American life.

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Gun Owners Grapple With Shifting Conversations Around Firearms

6:56pm March 11, 2018

This week on The Call-In, NPR's Renee Montagne talks with three gun owners who've been thinking a lot about the role guns play in American life.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Saturday that the Justice Department is formally moving to ban the sale or manufacture of bump stocks through regulatory action.

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Trump Administration Moves To Ban Bump Stocks

3:38pm March 10, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

The Justice Department took a first step in banning the sale, manufacture or possession of devices used to make a gun fire like an automatic weapon. But advocates say it'll take legislative action.