By Lois Beckett ProPublica In mid-April, Kansas passed a law asserting that federal gun regulations do not apply to guns made and owned in Kansas. Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell semi-automatic weapons in-state without a federal license or any federal oversight. Kansas’ “Second Amendment Protection Act” backs up its states’ rights claims…
By Dana Milbank Washington Post Columnist WASHINGTON — The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly to the woman taking…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s nauseating to say the least to see how spineless our Washington lawmakers are, how fearful they are when it comes to standing up to the NRA and the people who insist that universal background checks are too intrusive and assault weapons are necessary to own. The Newtown shootings should have…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s nauseating to say the least to see how spineless our Washington lawmakers are, how fearful they are when it comes to standing up to the NRA and the people who insist that universal background checks are too intrusive and assault weapons are necessary to own. The Newtown shootings should…
By Pamela Kripke Huffington Post Earlier this month, a student at my daughter’s public high school found a pile of .22 caliber bullets on the floor of a boys’ bathroom. A day before, a threatening note was discovered in the same restroom, inside a stall. On top of the tissue dispenser. In February, three similar…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Three out of four justifiable homicides involved firearms, CNN reports, citing the FBI’s unified crime report. Of the 260 justified homicides in 2011, 201 involved a gun. The rate is much higher among police, CNN reported. Guns were involved in 99.2% of justifiable homicides, or 390 out of 393. The statistics will…
By David S. Fallis, Washington Post WASHINGTON — During the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons, the percentage of firearms equipped with high-capacity magazines seized by police agencies in Virginia dropped, only to rise sharply once the restrictions were lifted in 2004, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. The White House is leading…
