Friday, an armed permit holder shot and killed a knife wielding man in the parking lot of a Family Dollar Store in Frayser.
SJC backs trigger-lock law on guns in homes
In a case that drew attention from the Gun Owners Action League and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the Supreme Judicial Court yesterday upheld a state law requiring trigger locks on guns kept in people's homes.
Cleveland to fight for its gun restrictions before Ohio Supreme Court
If Cleveland had its way, every gun in the city would have to be registered, no one would carry a weapon openly and assault weapons would be banned.
Texas Attorney General Leads Charge to Loosen Gun Laws
Abbott attended oral arguments at the Supreme Court March 2 in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, which could topple the ability of state and local governments to pass restrictive gun laws.
Mass. court upholds state gun-lock...
The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld the constitutionality of a state law that requires gun owners to lock weapons in their homes, a ruling seen as a victory for gun-control advocates.
TN Editorial: Handgun ban should be shot down
Published: Monday, March 8, 2010 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:08 p.m. The Second Amendment of the Constitution says "a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week as to what ...
Homeowner shoots violent home invader in self defense
An Ozark County, Missouri man reportedly used his gun to stop a violent home invader.
One goal of the "open carry" movement, The New York Times notes, is to encourage liberalization of concealed carry laws.
Committee approves bill expanding gun carry areas
A bill that would allow gun owners with permits to carry firearms onto college campuses and into churches and bars passed a key Senate committee on Monday and could soon be headed for the full Senate.
69% Say Cities Don’t Have Right To Ban Handguns
The Supreme Court is wrestling with a major case questioning whether Chicago's handgun ban violates the Second Amendment, but 69% of Americans say city governments do not have the right to prevent citizens from owning such guns.
Invest a few minutes a day for freedom's sake. When Richard Calderon shot and killed 13-year-old Alexis Wiley last Thursday, it was a tragedy, pure and simple.
February Background Checks On Firearm Sales Second Highest On Record...Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported 1,243,211 checks in February 2010...
Mike Adams The Breyer Patch
Justice Stephen Breyer was one of the four dissenting voices in District of Columbia v. Heller , the landmark Supreme Court case ruling that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is an individual right, rather than a collective right, which merely attaches to service in a state militia.
The Second Amendment, Part II
Last year, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a ban on gun ownership in the District of Columbia violated the Second Amendment, which gives Americans the right to bear arms.
PERSPECTIVE: No need to force a gun-safety class on elementary school children
A proposal to force the State Board of Education to create a class teaching gun safety to elementary school children goes too far.
More guns won't make us safer
27 letter by Marc Wrenn . Wrenn asserts that the answer to highly publicized but rare school shootings is to allow virtually everyone to "carry." He makes no distinction between potential adult victims in his letter being authorized to "carry" and teens or children being allowed to "carry." First, let's make certain I am not labeled inaccurately ...
New Poll: Most Americans Say Banning Handguns is Unconstitutional
's handgun ban breaches the Second Amendment, 69 percent of Americans believe city governments have no right to legislate against citizens owning such guns.
Tougher gun control laws wouldn't have saved Kayla Rolland
In response to the front page article on Kayla Rolland's death 10 years ago: There can be no denying how tragic and sad the events were that took place that day, nor the effect it had on so many lives.
Woolner: How many guns are too many?
Ann Woolner writes for Bloomberg News. SECOND AMENDMENT fans were at the Supreme Court Tuesday arguing that the constitutionally protected right to bear arms should kill Chicago's gun law.
Supreme Court Scrutinizes State, Local Gun Control
Gun control advocates think, if not pray, they can win by losing when the Supreme Court decides whether the constitutional right to possess guns serves as a check on state and local regulation of firearms.
City shot down on gunmakers
The city's nine-year quest to hold gunmakers responsible for illegal guns and violent crimes died a quiet death Monday when the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Trial of Phoenix gun seller to start Monday
March 09, 2009, 11:05 a.m. Law-enforcement agents on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border will be watching closely Monday as a Valley businessman accused of supplying assault rifles to Mexican drug cartels ...
Gun-control debate heats up
It's a tough time to be a gun owner in the United States. Everywhere you look these days, it seems there is some new gun-control measure being proposed by the state or federal government.
Gun rights, voting rights clash in U.S. capital
Stripping out a gun provision inserted by the Senate risks raising the wrath of theA NRA and losing the support of gun rights Democrats.
Gun rights and voting rights clash in US capital
Because of a quirk in the U.S. Constitution, the 600,000 people of Washington have no voting representative in Congress to vote on how their tax money is spent and when their relatives in uniform will go to ...
Obama Lies To Gun Owners As Holder Reveals Gun Attack Plan
From Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama deliberately and repeatedly lied to America's 90 million gun owners across the country when he insisted ...