Gun control, politics, legislation, and enforcement of measures intended to restrict access to, the possession of, or the use of arms. Debates over such measures often center on whether regulations are an undue restriction on liberty and whether there is
Gun control laws are just as old or older than the Second Amendment (ratified in 1791). Some examples ofgun controlthroughout colonial America included criminalizing the transfer of guns toCatholics, enslaved people, indentured servants, andNative Americans; regulating the storage of gun powder in...
Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, ranks Tennessee 29th in the country for its strength of gun safety laws. Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025 In 2022, Congress passed the most significant gun control legislation in decades, with Republican support. Kathryn Watson, CBS...
News about gun control laws, such as background checks and assault weapons bans, as states try to balance Second Amendment rights amid mass shootings and gun violence in the U.S.
What effects do gun control restrictions and gun prevalence have on rates of violence and crime? Data were gathered for all 170 U.S. cities with a 1980 pop
Amen. One of the few proper roles of government is to reduce crime by catching, convicting, and jailing bad people. The government is less likely to achieve that goal if it instead imposes gun control laws that merely disarm law-abiding people. P.S. For my entire collection of gun contro...
Amid the debate, some lawmakers have forged ahead with passing gun control laws. "States continue to lead on gun safety, passing new and innovative policies that we will work to replicate across the country while continuing to secure significant investments in community violence intervention programs...
Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control group, compared gun policies across the country, rating every state on the strength of its gun laws and comparing it with its gun violence occurrence. A positive correlation was found between ineffective gun control and gun violence rate. Eight states, ...
Opponents of any gun-control laws argue that they enjoy the freedom of gun ownership, which comes from the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the security of the United States: “A well regulated Militia, being nec...
Where does Tim Walz stand on guns and gun control? Here's his record. Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz once had an "A" rating from the NRA. Now, he has an "F." Here's what he's said about his views on gun laws. ...