Fortson, a 23-year-old active duty airman, was shot and killed by a Florida sheriff's deputy when he opened the door to his apartment holding a gun at his side.
Without providing any evidence, the paper says "loosened restrictions on firearms" contributed to gun violence in Columbus.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes a tactic from the progressive prosecutors he says he opposes.
Dexter Taylor is now a "violent felon," even though his hobby was victimless.
Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last.
Lower courts have been extremely skeptical of attempts to regulate unfinished parts as firearms.
Agency pushes the envelope to require gun dealer licenses beyond the statute.
The amended bill applies only to schools, polling places, and certain government buildings.
Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.
Tucson and Pima County have a history of passing restrictions that conflict with state law.
Some supposed defenders of the right to bear arms react with alarm.
State officials “jawboned” financial firms into cutting ties with the gun-rights group.
James Crumbley, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, may be an unsympathetic defendant. But this prosecution still made little sense.
So concludes the Nebraska AG's office, partly based on Nebraska state law and partly based on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Rather than destruction of property, Wendell Goney was convicted of possession of a firearm as a felon.
Rejecting a challenge to the state's strict gun laws, the court is openly contemptuous of Second Amendment precedents.
The decision likens the federal law to Reconstruction era restrictions on firearms near polling places.
In some sense, the case seemed to hinge on what prosecutors wished the law said, not on what it actually says.
Michigan jurors are considering whether Crumbley's carelessness amounted to involuntary manslaughter.
New Mexico law is more pro-defendant in such cases than the laws of many other states.
Survey finds growing acceptance of civilian firearms among the country’s population.
California made carry permits easier to obtain but nearly impossible to use.
The Washington Post hectors Congress to make U.S. life expectancy a "political priority."
The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.
After a federal judge deemed the state's location-specific gun bans unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit stayed his injunction.
The president's son is seeking dismissal of three felony charges based on his illegal 2018 firearm purchase.
The court upheld several other location-specific gun bans, along with the state's "good moral character" requirement for a carry permit.
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LaShawn Craig may spend years behind bars—because the gun he used to justifiably shoot someone was unlicensed.
By banning firearms from a long list of "sensitive places," the state is copying a policy that federal judges have repeatedly rejected.
Flagstaff keeps digging a hole over commercial free speech.
The 4th Circuit’s rejection of Maryland’s handgun licensing system suggests similar schemes in other states are unconstitutional.
