The Missouri legislature is expected to nullify all federal gun laws in the state and make it a crime for federal agents to enforce them there. A Missourian arrested under federal firearm statutes would even be able to sue the arresting officer.
George Zimmerman wants Florida to reimburse him for the costs of mounting his defense in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. Zimmerman's attorney plans to file a motion to recoup as much as $300,000 in legal costs spent defending Zimmerman.
Authorities say an escaped inmate suspected of shooting a southwest Iowa sheriff's deputy has been killed by a homeowner who said the armed man broke into his house.
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a new gun-control measure into law Sunday that requires all gun owners, including private citizens, to check the background of the person buying the gun.
What Bloomberg has embarked upon now is nothing less than the construction of a mirror image to the NRA. There is plenty of latent public support for gun control, his logic goes, but politicians only see a risk in voting for it. He wants to reverse t
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a gun-control measure into law that expands background checks to cover all firearms purchases in the state, closing what he said was a loophole that exempted gun sales between private parties.
When Neal Brace was 8 years old, he saw a plastic replica of the starship Enterprise being created on a three-dimensional printer at the Johnson Controls plant where his father worked.
Each month the Armed Citizens Legal DefenseNetwork’s online journal includes a column titled “Attorney Question of the Month”, in which we ask you, our affiliated attorneys, questions about members’ potential interactions with the criminal justice sy
My regular readers know that I have long suspected that many if not all of the spectacular and telegenic mass shootings over the past five decades were coldly contrived to manipulate public opinions about gun ownership.
The LAPD needs help from the federal government's lawyers to determine whether LAPD SWAT officers violated federal firearm laws by purchasing and reselling special edition Kimber brand pistols for profit to civilians.
The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control. Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer. In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less cri
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The state of Florida has issued over 2 million permits since the passage of its concealed carry law in 1987 to legally allow residents of the Sunshine State to bear firearms in public. Floyd Eugene Parish, on the other hand, was arrested for open car
Yes, I know those crying for ever more rigorous “background checks” and other permits and fees say making things harder for law-abiding gun owners is not their goal.
Phoenix Police illegally detained an Arizona open carry supporter who because of his knowledge and experience with this generation’s version of police, was recording the detainment with a video camera.
Lynette Phillips’ home in California was visited by police who were there to confiscate her husband’s firearms and ammunition because she had spent 3 days in the hospital (checked herself in) for mental health reasons, making her ineligible
With a .45 caliber legally strapped to his side, Jordan McManus decided to photograph the federal courthouse in Phoenix, realizing he would probably draw attention from police, especially after reading about Raymond Michael’s experience
Even gun makers want to be liked. So governors and other politicians from states eager to embrace the industry have descended on places where they are not so popular — like Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Colorado — offering
The marketplace for firearms on the Internet, where buyers are not required to undergo background checks, is so vast that advocates for stricter regulations now consider online sales a greater threat than the gun-show loophole.
Some say there is no more naturally protective force than a mother looking out for her children, and one organization is doing all it can to make that task easier for moms - by teaching them how to handle and use a firearm.
I'm a lawyer. I'm a criminal defense lawyer. Every day I put on a suit and I walk though metal detectors and into a courthouse where guns, ammunition, and knives are not permitted.
A man in the Museum District who refused to be a repeat robbery victim fought back Thursday. He put one suspect in the hospital, another in jail. The victim was smoking a cigarette in front of the Caroline Collective on Caroline near Rosedale aroun
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