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Why don't we talk more about guns? Not that the issue doesn't come up. But think about the public debate on gun control versus the one we're having on abortion [...]

About two dozen American researchers focus exclusively on how to prevent gun violence. They have waged an often-frustrating battle to translate their findings into public policy. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- [...]

WASHINGTON -- The top two Democrats in Congress, seeking to ramp up pressure on Republicans to pass legislation extending background checks to all gun buyers, told President Trump on Sunday [...]

WASHINGTON -- He has called Senator Christopher S. Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, where 26 people were gunned down at an elementary school. He has reached out to Senator Joe [...]

MIAMI -- The Florida State Senate shocked even itself on Saturday when it voted to approve a two-year moratorium on sales of AR-15 semiautomatic rifles, going far beyond the gun-related [...]

The current push for stricter gun control is aiming too low. Sure, passage of new regulations would be a welcome change from our political intransigence and lack of response to [...]

WASHINGTON -- For years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been overlooked in Washington. Overshadowed by more politically powerful law enforcement agencies like the F.B.I., the A.T.F. [...]

When militia members and white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Va., last Saturday with Nazi flags and racist placards, many of them also carried firearms openly, including semiautomatic weapons. They came [...]

WASHINGTON -- Shaken and angry, Republican members of Congress seized on the brazen daytime shooting of their colleagues on Wednesday to demand that existing restrictions on gun access be loosened [...]

Two years after nine churchgoers were shot to death in a horrific gun spree in Charleston, S.C., tone-deaf state lawmakers are considering a measure to allow South Carolina residents to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted on Thursday to keep a proposal to block gun sales to terrorism suspects alive, but placed it in a procedural limbo that made its adoption [...]

The Democratic attack ad from 2009 showed Chris Christie's face beside a row of bullets, branding him as an ally of the National Rifle Association. A narrator warned that unlike [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama edged closer Saturday to declaring the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 people a terrorist attack, but stuck to his prescription that the answer [...]

As the national debate over gun control raged online after the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College on Thursday, comments on the subject posted on Facebook by Sheriff John Hanlin [...]

The morning after the third deadly mass shooting in six weeks, the presidential candidates acted as though they had not seen the news. Republicans attacked Hillary Rodham Clinton over the [...]

Colorado is now reliving, in the trial of James Holmes, the 2012 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora in which a military-style assault rifle was used to murder 12 [...]

Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan rebuffed heavy lobbying by the National Rifle Association and vetoed a patently dangerous gun measure Thursday that would have compounded the risks for women caught [...]

Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan on Thursday vetoed gun legislation that was supported by the National Rifle Association and approved by wide margins in the state's Legislature, dominated in both [...]

WASHINGTON -- The gun control movement, blocked in Congress and facing mounting losses in federal elections, is tweaking its name, refining its goals and using the same-sex marriage movement as [...]