Gun Control

In February 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people.

The new laws will take effect on April 12, but the Mongrel Mob gang has said it will not give up its guns.

The case is "ripe for an appeal," local officials said.

"Instead of training children, teachers, houses of faith & concertgoers to prep for being shot," the United States needs to introduce tighter gun control laws, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has asserted.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared New Zealand's swift action on gun control following the mosque attacks with persistent U.S. inaction after mass shootings.

Progressive Twitter users lamented the massacre and used it as an example of the consequences of weak laws on gun ownership.

"As a New Zealander, I can't imagine a country that is less likely to ignore this and do nothing as the United States has done after Columbine, Sandy Hook and all the others," said gun control expert Philip Alpers, a researcher at the University of Sydney and founding director of GunPolicy.org, which tracks gun laws around the world.

Police require over 700 hours of training to carry a firearm. Teachers in one Ohio school district will need just 27.

The Fraternal Order of Police in the state also opposed the bill, which passed through the House overwhelmingly

"sheriffs that are non compliant will be shot. by me."

The background checks bill is a critical first step towards ending our gun violence crisis.

The presidential hopeful expressed her frustration at Congress's failure to tighten gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.

The key plank of Democratic policy will be to increase background checks on those who buy guns online and at gun shows.

The recommendation is part of a lengthy report aimed at making schools safer.

Most teachers do not want to be police officers; they want to teach.

The final report from the Trump administration's Federal Commission on School Safety makes numerous recommendations. None involve gun control.

State senator has drafted a new bill that could mean that anyone who wants to buy a pistol or renew their license could be subject to a review of their internet history.

The Kentucky native and co-creator of The Walking Dead ridiculed Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's claim mass shootings are a result of zombie television shows and America's "culture of death."

Birmingham Police are still trying to establish how the incident came about.

Guns are the second-biggest killer of children in the U.S., after motor vehicle accidents.

Former congresswoman releases statement decrying gun violence after three workplace shootings occur across the country in less than 24 hours.

"Bulletproof" singer Elly Jackson of La Roux has hit out at Fox Business Network over its use of the 2009 hit song for a segment on bulletproof backpacks.

A coalition that includes gun control advocates and educators is prepared to sue the Education Department if it moves forward with a measure to use federal funds to arm teachers.

Is the best we can hope for shootouts in classrooms?

The new rules expand the gun ownership eligibility pool by over 300 percent.

It's time to retire the myth that the youth tsunami will change everything.

In Canada, a firearm is nearly seven times less likely to be used in a homicide than in the U.S., according to Statistics Canada.

The listening session tour might seem like a good idea, but it's a direct attempt to fool Americans while doing nothing to keep us safer.

Tillemann, a Democrat running for Colorado's 6th congressional district on Denver's east side, recorded a video in which he blasted himself in the face with pepper spray to promote nonlethal self-defense methods for teachers.

Students and parents host a "die-in" at Mar-a-Lago to protest the Trump administration's handling of gun control on the second anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.