Tag: Guns
Sex, Drugs, Guns and Web3
For CoinDesk’s Sin Week, we’ll be exploring the clash of old-world finance and crypto, how Web3 can help (or not help) illicit or at least pariah indu [...]
What are ghost guns? Dealers rush to sell untraceable firearms as crackdown nears
With new federal regulations set to take effect on so-called "ghost guns" next week, businesses that sell the untraceable firearms are racing to offlo [...]
In Two Hours, Washington Goes in Two Directions on Guns
WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital, so often a backdrop for inaction, had seldom witnessed anything quite like it — two branches of government splinter [...]
Actor Matthew McConaughey joins White House press briefing on guns
[The stream is slated to start at 1:45 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.]Actor and gun-policy advocate M [...]
Guns do more than kill
In his speech last Thursday about the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, President Joe Biden spoke about a young student who’d avert [...]
At N.R.A. Convention, the Blame Is on ‘Evil,’ Not Guns
HOUSTON — One by one, the gun rights activists and politicians who showed up at the National Rifle Association convention on Friday said they were app [...]
At N.R.A. Convention, the Blame Is on ‘Evil,’ Not Guns
HOUSTON — One by one, the gun rights activists and politicians who showed up at the National Rifle Association convention on Friday said they were app [...]
Why Republicans Campaign on Guns While Democrats Choose Not To
In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey unpacked lipstick, an iPhone and something else from her purse in one campaign advertisement — “a little Smith & Wesson [...]
How the number of guns compares to gun deaths in the US
In the wake of yet another unspeakable tragedy, in which 19 children and two teachers were murdered by a gunman in a Texas elementary school, one r [...]
Democrats Confront 2 Obstacles on Guns: Time, and an Implacable G.O.P.
Three days.That’s how long it takes before the public’s anger begins to dissipate after a mass shooting, according to two scholars at Princeton Univer [...]
In the U.S., Backlash to Civil Rights Era Made Guns a Political 3rd-Rail
I am a mother of two young children, and I wish I could say that the pain that parents in Uvalde, Texas, feel this morning is unimaginable to me. But [...]
Steve Kerr condemns senators for inaction on guns
A visibly angry and shaken Steve Kerr on Tuesday evening condemned senators, particularly Republican leader Mitch McConnell, for failing to act on gun [...]
Congress Is Paralyzed on Guns. Here’s Why Chris Murphy Is Still Hopeful.
WASHINGTON — It did not take long after the racist gun massacre in Buffalo for a familiar sense of resignation to set in on Capitol Hill about the cha [...]
Volunteer police officers to be armed with Taser stun guns
The Home Office says it will ensure they are not put at a disadvantage to their paid colleagues.
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What Do Most Mass Shooters Have in Common? They Bought Their Guns Legally.
The Biden administration renewed its calls to ban semiautomatic weapons and expand national background checks in the wake of the attack in Buffalo on [...]