House Democrats Are Holding the First Vote on Gun Control in More Than a Decade
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at a press conference to announce the introduction of legislation to expand background checks for all gun sales on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Washington.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House of Representatives will vote on two gun control bills this week that…
Mark Kelly Helped Turn Guns Into a National Issue. But Will a State With Lax Gun Laws Elect Him?
Mark Kelly and his wife, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, push Congress to act on gun safety legislation on March 23, 2018.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mark Kelly spent much of the past year on the campaign trail during the midterms, stumping for Democrats who pledged to push…
The NRA Welcomed Maria Butina—Even As She Worked to Arm Anti-American Thugs Abroad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American public has continued to know little about Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty in December to participating in a foreign conspiracy against the United States. Not much has emerged about the confessed Russian agent’s political activities beyond her efforts to build ties with Republican leaders…
Study: Gunshot Wounds Cost Us Nearly $1 Billion in Hospital Bills Every Year
ugurhan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Researchers have long known that the impacts of gun violence ripple out far beyond victims and their families. But the price we pay as a country can be hard to measure, because data is hard to come by. (And the National Rifle Association is…
Democrats Are Ready to Push Gun Reforms. But Their Last Republican Allies Got Picked Off.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks during the event to introduce the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 in the Capitol on January 8.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gun reform advocates took a victory lap in the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon when Rep. Mike Thompson…
Maria Butina Claimed to Have a “Signed Cooperation Agreement” With the National Rifle Association
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Confessed Russian agent Maria Butina claimed more than five years ago that her gun rights group had entered into a “signed cooperation agreement” with the National Rifle Association, according to a contemporaneous account of a talk Butina gave to an Israeli organization. Butina, who pleaded…