Why Did Texas Church Shooter Devin Kelley Pass Background Checks? [UPDATED]
His conviction for domestic violence legally disqualified him from buying guns.
His conviction for domestic violence legally disqualified him from buying guns.
26 people have been killed at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
So, too, have the politicians who said they really, really wanted a ban on the firearm accessory.
The reasons for the Las Vegas massacre cannot be found in the perpetrator's tissue or in the DSM.
Orange County denied a workers comp claim by deputies who attended the concert at Mandalay Bay and say they sustained injuries responding to it.
The ATF has no legal authority to restrict the controversial firearm accessory.
The leader of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus explains why prohibiting the suddenly notorious gun accessories is rash and dangerous.
Current owners of newly prohibited devices could go to prison for keeping them.
The bill, sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats, would ban much more than just bump stocks.
The video hosting website falls prey to a hysteria.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on why government-mandated birth control and the NRA both suck.
Prohibiting the accessory used by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will require new legislation.
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
The device's ineffectiveness and unpopularity make it an easy sacrifice.
The misguided call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
Today in the news: up is down, left is right, cats are dogs
A response to New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and his call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
Get your bump stocks while you can.
Reason's Jacob Sullum talks about making effective policy in the wake of tragedy.
Gun control advocates don't seem to realize they are making the case against their push.
If only politicians were so open to contradiction by reality.
The Las Vegas attack does not strengthen the case for all the usual gun control ideas.
The accessories, which are legal and widely available, sacrifice accuracy for speed.
Don't combine an authoritarian president with a disarmed populace.
Anti-gun activists are pushing for a crackdown in the wake of the Vegas shooting. That's understandable but wrong.
Laws aren't the solution you're looking for to crimes like the massacre in Las Vegas.
No clear motive or explanation is readily available for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, which left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.
As usual, the policies pushed in response to a mass shooting have little or nothing to do with it.
Stephen Paddock was seven years old at the time of his father's arrest.
Reluctance to use the T-word after mass killings can be routinely found whether perpetrators are white or brown.
The president offered condolences, federal law enforcement assistance.
Police say a 64-year-old Nevada man, Stephen Craig Paddock, opened fire on a crowd of more than 20,000 people from hotel balcony. They believe he acted alone.
Resist "grotesque urge to immediately transform all human tragedies into a political agenda."
The ruling shows how carelessly the paper peddled nonsense about Republican rhetoric and mass murder.
The New York Times shamefully-and stupidly-ties yesterday's shooting to...an old Sarah Palin ad?
The senator's Jared Loughner/James Hodgkinson hypocrisy is all too common.
A gunman opened fire on a practice game outside of Washington, D.C., this morning.
Updated with more information on suspect Esteban Santiago, age 26; once allegedly claimed he was being forced to fight for ISIS.
Ohio State student and Somali immigrant Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, was named as the now-deceased perpetrator of Monday's attack.
Did the authorities contain a hysterical crowd Sunday night, or did they spread the hysteria?
But not for long, I bet.
Tarring opponents as accomplices to murder is deadly to debate.
Another police officer also reported injured.