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Obama Just Made the Case for America to Overhaul Its Gun Laws
The president weighed in on the issue of gun control in an address to the country’s top law enforcement officers in his adopted hometown of Chicago.
You Might Need a Background Check to Buy Bullets in California After Next Year
An initiative that could be on the 2016 ballot in California aims for strict new regulations that supporters hope will jumpstart the national gun control movement.
Sex Offenders and a Convicted Murderer Passed Uber's Background Check
Prosecutors in California found criminals who had passed the test to drive for the ride-hailing company.
Hacks Bring Down US Background Check System — But the Worst Is Yet to Come
Fallout from the massive data breach at the Office of Personnel Management continues — but the ramifications of the theft of 18 million federal employees' personal info will be felt for years.
Scott Walker Loosens Gun Restrictions in Wisconsin Ahead of Expected Presidential Bid
Walker signed the bills at a ceremony in Milwaukee just a week after a mass shooting in South Carolina reignited a national debate about gun control.
Two DEA Employees Are in Trouble for Allegedly Lying About Running a Strip Club
David Polos and Glen Glover have been accused of hiding their shady side gig during a federal background check.
Are Uber and Lyft Doing Enough to Keep Criminals from Getting Behind the Wheel?
After several high-profile incidents of drivers attacking their passengers, critics are saying that the ridesharing companies skimp on background checks.
We'll Always Have School Shootings Because We Really Really Love Guns
The NRA may be a bloated, possibly corrupt, excessively powerful lobbying force, but it's also the mouthpiece of a fandom more widespread than Bronies, Trekkies, and Furries combined and multiplied by a hundred.
Forget Gun Control, Let’s Ban the Senate
The failure of the gun control bill isn’t an example of cowardice on the part of senators who didn’t vote for it, or some fatal flaw on behalf of its sponsors. It’s just another case of the Senate being cripplingly, pathetically gridlocked and unable...
The Former Civil Rights Activist Who Created the Right to Bear Arms
Don Kates is a Yale-educated lawyer who started his legal career fighting for civil rights in the South during the 1960s. A few years later, however, he ended up at the NRA, defending the Second Amendment and inspiring many of the gun rights mantras...
Guns in the Sun
There are 270 million legal guns in the US. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of firearms laws, you might say that the situation presents a wicked problem—something that can’t be objectively solved or even described.