The Latest Breaking News from Gun Control

Lawmakers in Congress are poised to pass the first gun control legislation in three decades. Among the elements in that legislation is support for states to pass what are called “red flag laws.”

The prolonged negotiations among four senators that produced this week’s compromise on a modest gun control bill show how hard it is to reach bipartisan agreement on contentious issues in a time of sharply partisan politics.

With just 13 decisions left on the docket, the Supreme Court still has yet to weigh in on major cases about abortion, climate law and gun control. The decisions will land in the coming weeks.

Uvalde. Another school massacre. Another underage murderer. Another legally purchased weapon of war turned on innocent children. More calls for action. More thoughts and prayers. More braying about upholding the Second Amendment. More pandering.

Just over one week ago, police launched a crackdown on a major gun-trafficking gang in coordinated raids in five provinces, including Bangkok. The operation was highly successful: 16 suspects including the alleged gang leader, a former village headman and a state official were arrested, while dozens of firearms of different…

The Senate is considering the most significant gun safety measure it has seen in decades.

Record-breaking high temperatures hit the Chicago area, hundreds demand stricter gun control laws at the March For Our Lives rally and the Chicago Blues Festival returns to Millennium Park.

The compromise gun control bill crafted by 10 Republicans and several Democratic colleagues is “more likely than not” to pass the Senate, Pennsylvania’s Republican senator said Tuesday. One of the authors of the proposal, Sen. Pat Toomey, says that it will “protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans while…

The Canadian government has tabled new legislation to strengthen the screening process of individual firearm owners, institute a mandatory buyback of banned semi-automatic military style firearms and to ban the sale, import and transfer of handguns.