Tag: Firearms

U.S. Rate of Suicide by Firearm Reaches Record Level

The rate of suicides involving guns in the United States has reached the highest level since officials began tracking it more than 50 years ago, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate increased by more than 10 percent in 2022 compared with 2019, and in some racial […]

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Federal Law Requires a Choice: Marijuana or a Gun?

For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun. In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he stormed out […]

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2 Shot on Subway Train During Evening Rush in Brooklyn, Police Say

A gunman shot a 17-year-old boy and a man in his 40s inside a moving subway car as it approached a station in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood during the evening rush hour on Tuesday, the police said. The shooting occurred just after 5:30 p.m. on a northbound C train as it pulled into the Ralph Avenue […]

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‘Rust’ Killing Forces Hollywood to Make Choices on Guns

The fatal “Rust” shooting offered a vivid reminder that many of the guns used on film sets are real. Sometimes they are loaded with inert dummy rounds that resemble real bullets but cannot be fired; that was supposed to be the case in the scene Mr. Baldwin was filming. Sometimes they are loaded with blanks […]

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Courts Strike Down Gun Control Measures in Two States

In the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that significantly limits what the government can do to restrict guns, states led by Democrats have scrambled to circumvent or test the limits of the ruling. A few have approved new gun restrictions. Oregon even passed a ballot initiative to ban high-capacity ammunition […]

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Army Ammunition Factory Tied to Mass Shootings Faces New Scrutiny

An agreement between the Army and one of the nation’s largest ammunition manufacturers is receiving new scrutiny because of a little-known provision allowing a government facility to produce hundreds of millions of rounds for the retail market. Over more than a decade, contracts between the Pentagon and a series of private companies have permitted an […]

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The Supreme Court’s Search for a More Attractive Gun Rights Case

When the Supreme Court heard arguments this month on whether the Second Amendment allows the government to disarm domestic abusers, Justice Amy Coney Barrett made a cryptic reference that puzzled many in the courtroom. She asked, according to the court’s official transcript, about “the range issue.” Sentencing range? Firing range? She was, it turned out, […]

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The Law at the Heart of the Supreme Court’s Gun Case Is Often Used as a Deterrent

The federal law at the heart of a major Supreme Court case that could determine the scope of gun rights in the United States deals with one of the country’s most vexing problems. While the statute has not been used to prosecute a substantial number of people subject to domestic violence orders who are carrying […]

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Will the Supreme Court Toss Out a Gun Law Meant to Protect Women?

And that brings me to the second missing ingredient in the briefs supporting Rahimi: the Second Amendment itself. I don’t mean that the Second Amendment is missing from every brief; a brief from the Foundation for Moral Law and signed by, among others, Roy S. Moore, the former Alabama chief justice who founded the organization, […]

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Loving Our Guns to Death

In Anthony Mann’s 1950 western “Winchester ’73,” a rare and much-desired Winchester rifle brings misery and death to the unlucky souls who manage to bring it into their possession. In the West as brought to you by Mann — and his star, a troubled and morally ambiguous Jimmy Stewart — the gun isn’t a symbol […]

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Stephen King: The Maine Shootings Show We Are Out of Things to Say

There is no solution to the gun problem, and little more to write, because Americans are addicted to firearms. Representative Jared Golden, from Maine’s Second Congressional District, has reversed course and says he will now support outlawing military-style semiautomatic rifles like the one used in the killing of 18 people in Lewiston this week. But […]

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U.S. Politician Arrested at Hong Kong Airport for Gun in Luggage

A Washington state senator was arrested at a Hong Kong airport on charges of possessing a locally unregistered firearm, his office said on Monday. Jeff Wilson, a Republican who represents parts of southwestern Washington State, discovered the weapon on his flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong when he reached into his briefcase for a […]

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Nashville Chief’s Son Is Sought in Shooting of Two Officers

The authorities in Tennessee were searching on Sunday for the estranged son of Nashville’s police chief, a day after the chief’s son was identified as the suspect in the shooting of two police officers outside a Dollar General store. The officers were investigating a stolen vehicle Saturday afternoon in La Vergne, Tenn., about 20 miles […]

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Inside the White House’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention

When President Biden announced the creation of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention on September 22, he cited the devastating fact that gun violence has taken over 30,000 lives across America so far this year. And in her remarks, Vice President Harris reminded us that “while this violence impacts all communities, it […]

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Armed Man Seeking Wisconsin Governor Posts Bail and Returns With Rifle

A man who was looking for Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin was arrested with a handgun inside the State Capitol in Madison on Wednesday, posted bail and then returned with an “AK-47-style” rifle and was arrested again, a state spokeswoman said. The man, who was shirtless and had a dog on a leash, initially approached […]

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Gun Deaths Rising Sharply Among Children, Study Finds

Julvonnia McDowell was making dinner one evening when she got a call saying that her 14-year-old son, JuJuan — a gentle boy who loved animals, who was so generous that he gave a pair of shoes to a classmate who was being teased — had been shot. He was visiting a relative’s home when another […]

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Four Seconds to Impact: On the Front Line With Ukraine’s Snipers

The Russian position was marked with the blue flag of Moscow’s elite airborne units but the fabric looked almost translucent through the Ukrainian sniper’s scope. The flag, atop a Russian-occupied building in southern Ukraine, was just over a mile away. If a Russian soldier appeared, it would take roughly four seconds for the sniper’s large-caliber […]

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The Lawyer Trying to Hold Gunmakers Responsible for Mass Shootings

Although AR-15-style rifles have been sold commercially since the 1960s, for a long time there was barely a market for them. In 1990, they accounted for just 1.2 percent of all firearms manufactured in the United States. But starting in the mid-2000s, after the assault weapons ban expired, their appeal grew. The wars in Afghanistan […]

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Trump Tells Gun Store He’d Like to Buy a Glock, Raising Legal Questions

A spokesman for former President Donald J. Trump posted a video on Monday showing him at a gun shop in South Carolina, declaring that he had just bought a Glock pistol. The post on X, formerly known as Twitter, included video of Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Party’s nomination for president who is […]

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The Most Interesting Element of the Hunter Biden Indictment

The case kicked off years of additional litigation, and in the absence of clear guidance from the Supreme Court, lower courts established their own tests for firearms regulations, largely applying a form of “intermediate” scrutiny that left intact a wide range of gun control measures, including bans on so-called assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. It […]

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Hunter Biden Indicted on Gun Charges

Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was charged on Thursday by federal prosecutors with lying about his drug use in connection with his purchase of a handgun in 2018, a move that could put him on trial next year as his father runs for re-election. The decision to file criminal charges against President Biden’s troubled youngest […]

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