Gun Laws

The Supreme Court says that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semiautomatic guns and large-capacity magazines. The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law, which bans so-called assault weapons. The law’s opponents had asked the court to put the law on hold while a court challenge...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on additional protections for gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits within a bill that lawmakers passed after a deadly school shooting.

A judge’s ruling striking down a federal law that bans licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is the latest example of how a landmark Supreme Court decision is transforming the legal landscape around firearms.

The city of Buffalo, New York, will pause to mark the passing of one year since a white supremacist gunman killed 10 Black people and wounded three victims at a supermarket.

The judge’s ruling is the latest decision striking down gun laws in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year that changed the test courts have long used to evaluate challenges to firearm restrictions.

The Texas House Select Committee on Community Safety has voted to advance the raise-the-age bill in the wake of mass shootings in Allen, Houston and Uvalde.

The Canadian government is proposing a ban on assault-style firearms that would apply once legislation now before Parliament comes into force.

Lee signed the order amid heightened tensions after two Democrats, both Black men, were expelled from the General Assembly for protesting on the House floor against gun violence.

Tennessee Republicans have expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control. County commissions in each of the expelled lawmakers’ districts will now choose temporary replacements until a special election is held. The commissions could choose Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, allowing them to return to the Capitol. They...

Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House has expelled two of three Democratic members for their roles in a demonstration in favor of gun control following the Nashville school shooting.

The days after the shooting at a Nashville Christian school that killed six people have been marked by anti-transgender rhetoric and disinformation.

Florida and Nebraska are poised to become the latest states to allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

The U.S. men’s national soccer team used its platform to demand that Congress do something about gun violence in the United States.

You’re applying to college, and you’ve got your checklist: Academics. Dorms. Sports. Clubs. Location. Now you might want to add guns. Where are they allowed on campus? Where are they banned? Regulations vary widely by state.

Highlights of the bipartisan gun violence bill that President Joe Biden signed on Saturday.

President Biden signed a bipartisan gun measure on Saturday, saying “Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved.” Most of its $13 billion cost will help bolster mental health programs and aid schools.

When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists. But some public defenders, often allies of progressive activists, have praised the court’s ruling, saying gun-permitting rules like New York’s have long been a license for racial discrimination.

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

Democratic and Republican senators were at odds Thursday over how to keep firearms from dangerous people as bargainers struggled to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for their self-imposed deadline of holding votes in Congress next week.