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Editorial: Don't be so quick to assume the Texas school shooting won't lead to new gun laws

A decade ago, a gunman killed 20 students and six teachers at a Connecticut elementary school, and many Americans wearily asked what the hell it would take to keep people safe on campuses as gun violence metastasized in a nation where the Constitution says gun rights shall not be infringed…

Tribune News Service · Jun 3, 2022

Texas’ Louie Gohmert lashes out at gun reform debate. ‘You don’t think we have hearts?’

Texas congressman Louie Gohmert delivered an emotional rebuttal in defense of gun rights during a House gun reform hearing Thursday.

Tribune News Service · Jun 2, 2022

New debate over gun laws will test the gun lobby’s influence

WASHINGTON — Greg Landsman, the Democrat challenging Ohio Republican Rep. Steve Chabot in one of the country’s most competitive House races, called on his opponent Wednesday to embrace new gun control measures following recent shooting massacres in Texas and New York.

Tribune News Service · Jun 2, 2022

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New debate over gun laws will test the gun lobby’s influence - Roll Call

Gun control organizations and gun rights groups are gearing up for an immediate lobbying push while also investing in candidates.

Roll Call · Jun 2, 2022

How gun lobby prevents any GOP action

Colorado state Rep. Cole Wist took action by sponsoring a red flag bill. It likely cost him his seat

Salon · Jun 1, 2022

Biden says ‘you couldn’t buy cannons’ under Second Amendment in swipe at guns after Texas school massacre

President Joe Biden said Monday that gun rights are not absolute, claiming that ordinary American citizens “couldn’t buy cannons” when the Second Amendment was drafted.

Tribune News Service · May 30, 2022

How the right seized the gun narrative

The “God-given right” to self-defense has become a rallying cry in Texas politics

Salon · May 30, 2022

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TX slashed mental health money, gun laws

The Lone Star State has declared itself a "Second Amendment sanctuary"

Salon · May 28, 2022

As US mourns shootings, NRA in turmoil but influence remains

Nearly 10 years ago, the slaughter of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School looked like it might break through the United States’ political stalemate on guns

The Independent UK · May 28, 2022

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is one of America's fiercest gun rights advocates. Now his state is grappling with another school massacre

Texan Governor Greg Abbott has maintained his grip on America's Lone Star state for seven years, and is likely to clinch a third term later this year. For now, he must grapple with yet another mass shooting.

ABC News · May 27, 2022

How lawmakers in thrall to the NRA stifle gun safety laws

Powerful lobbying groups spent nearly $5m last year to expand gun rights while limiting curbs on who can have a firearm and how they can carry it

The Guardian - US · May 27, 2022

The NRA wasn’t always opposed to gun restrictions

At first, the group was mainly concerned with marksmanship. It later played a relatively constructive role regarding safety-minded gun ownership restrictionsm before turning into a rigid politicized force.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 26, 2022

GMB's Kate Garraway clashes with guest in fiery debate over US gun laws

ITV's Good Morning Britain aired a debate on US gun laws today, as Kate Garraway clashed with one pro-gun rights guest when the presenter said everyone had a right to safety

Daily Mirror · May 26, 2022

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.

The Conversation · May 26, 2022

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Tribune News Service · May 25, 2022

Texas school shooting hangs over pending Supreme Court gun rights ruling

The latest U.S. mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school creates a new point of political pressure on a U.S. Supreme Court that has signaled it will soon limit state and local governments’ ability to enact gun control measures.

Axios · May 25, 2022

The GOP lawmakers who get the most cash from gun rights groups

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) received the most money from gun rights supporters.

Los Angeles Times · May 25, 2022

US gun laws are getting looser, not stronger, despite more mass shootings

In recent weeks, a string of devastating shootings — at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, a church in Laguna Woods, California, and now an elementary school in little Uvalde, Texas — has renewed calls for tighter gun restrictions.

WEKU · May 21, 2022

Should 18-year-olds be allowed to buy semi-automatic rifles? State and courts debate

Efforts by states to to raise the minimum age for buying a long rifle have been challenged in court by gun rights activists.

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Salon · May 16, 2022

SCOTUS set to give the NRA its big win

The most established extremist movement in the country is the unfettered gun rights movement

Benzinga · May 2, 2022

Cannabis Regulatory Update: Florida's Debate On Gun Rights & Cannabis, New Legalization Highlights In OH, PA & ME

Firearms Rights & Marijuana: Florida Official Sheds Light On Lawsuit Around Legal Marijuana Users & Background Checks

Reason · Apr 25, 2022

My Washington Post Article on Gun Rights and Property Rights

It explains why laws requiring private property owners to allow guns on their land are an affront to property rights, and violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

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