Gun Control

Although passing a background check is standard procedure at gun stores in Florida, lying on one is a federal crime that is not enforced by state firearm retailers.

Amid a PR crisis, the pro-gun group is pulling out all the stops and slamming, well, almost all of its critics.

The Senate Majority Leader scheduled a banking reform bill for consideration this week, effectively delaying a debate on gun control in Congress's upper chamber as much of the country turns to Capitol Hill for stricter firearms regulations. 

"I should have told my constituents they were being duped by shills for a firearms industry that profits from fear-mongering and murder," Marc Dann said.

Republican Kelli Stargel opposed a ban on assault weapons.

Actors will be wearing the orange American flag pins at the ceremony.

A loaded gun found inside a South Carolina child's lunch bag shocked teachers and pastors at the Baptist church day care.

The maker of Smith & Wesson firearms says demand is falling to "new, lower levels," after years of increasing sales under President Barack Obama.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence "support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don't want gun control," an NRA lobbyist said.

The NRA says the president and vice president "don't want gun control" after meeting with them Thursday.

"Federal support for research that could help states and communities reduce firearm crime, violence, and suicide remains very limited," RAND researchers said.

The president suggested taking guns away from mentally ill people without due process.

"Whatever we prevented, the outcome was going to be bad."

Hillsborough County includes cities such as Tampa.

A sign reading "Shoot a .50 Caliber Only $29" was changed by a group advocating for changes in gun laws.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio proposed modest gun reforms on Thursday but gun control advocates called them "insufficient."

"I will not be able to protect you the way an able-bodied teacher will," the teacher told her students. "...Don't worry about me."

New polls show rising support for gun safety measures in the wake of recent mass shootings.

The gun ownership rate in the U.S. is higher than anywhere else in the world.

Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and pistols had their weddings blessed and their weapons celebrated as life-saving "rods of iron" at a controversial church in Pennsylvania.

The president's latest guns stance means he has no chance of re-election in 2020, said Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Colleges in more than 30 states are voicing support of students' activism in wake of the Parkland shooting. Here's the list so far.

Police identified the man taken into custody on Wednesday after allegedly firing a handgun in a Georgia high school as 53-year-old social studies teacher Jesse Randal Davidson.

Police responded to Dalton High School after receiving reports of shots fired around noon. Investigators discovered a teacher barricaded inside a classroom.

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin will lay out his own bill on gun control at the White House on Wednesday.

Gun control has been widely debated since the Florida shooting.

A police affidavit says that three students heard Brennen Michael Shenk make the threat while standing in the school lunch line.

Gun control advocates may see this as war of attrition, but businesses cutting ties with the NRA might not be doing so to take a moral stand—it's just good business.

Many social issues divide Americans by age. Gun control is not one of them.

The gun rights group has its own lobbying arm and employs in-house lobbyists.