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Littwin: Endlessly ‘falling down’ in NRA America

The informed debate from Chapel Hill in the aftermath of the triple murder goes something like this: Did Craig Hicks kill three people in...

Recalled Sen. Morse joins move to support Colorado ‘gun sense’ candidates

Just over a year ago, state Senate President John Morse was recalled from his Colorado Springs seat for playing a leading role in passing...

NRA Coffman campaign in gun-rattled Aurora could backfire

  If you live in Aurora, chances are you found a glossy mailer on your doorstep last week. (In a Congressional district as tight as...

Markey outdraws ‘young gun’ Gardner in NRA endorsement showdown

The National Rifle Association is bestowing its influential endorsement on Congresswoman Betsy Markey, according to the National Review. That surely comes as a shot...

Udall MIA on effort to close gun-show loophole

There were calls to close it in the wake of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School. There were calls to close it in 2007 following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech. So far, though, Congress has done nothing to address the so-called gun-show loophole, which allows unlicensed vendors to sell firearms without performing background checks on the buyers. That kind of lawmaker inaction hasn’t gone unnoticed by the family members of some of the gun-show loophole victims.

Why have we stopped talking about guns?

You know by now that in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an elderly white supremacist and anti-Semite named James W. von Brunn allegedly walked into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with a .22-caliber rifle and killed a security guard before being brought down himself. He's 88 years old, with a long record of hatred and paranoid fantasies about the Illuminati and a Global Zionist state. How bitter the bile that has curdled for so many decades.

Locked and Loaded: Bullets New Addition to National Park Experience?

If the Bush Administration, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and 47 U.S. Senators get their way, you might be able to take a...