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In 2005, a wave of lawsuits threatened to bankrupt the gun industry. These suits were based on — pick your adjective — “creative,” “novel,” “inventive,” and “imaginative” legal theories that rarely held up in court, and they did their damage primarily by forcing gun companies to incur the costs of defending against them.

President Trump's history is all over the place when it comes to the Second Amendment and gun control.

Legendary gun maker Colt has announced Thursday that it would stop making the AR-15 and other long guns for the civilian market, citing falling demand and obligations to military and law enforcement markets.

Senate Republicans are treading cautiously on a background checks plan floated by Attorney General William Barr that has been decried as a “non-starter” by the National Rifle Association (NRA).

This week’s discussion will focus on the attacks on your Second Amendment rights. American companies are caving-in to pressure from the anti-gun crowd.

President Trump contradicted reports that the White House is moving forward with a legislative package on gun control, saying in an interview with Fox News anchor Ed Henry Thursday that negotiations on the issue are "going very slowly."

Suzanna Hupp, whose parents were among the 23 people killed when at the Killeen Luby's massacre in 1991, told a committee she could have stopped the shooter if Texas' gun control laws had been more lax.

The 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference is taking place in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend, but the event’s sponsor, the Washington State-based Second Amendment Foundation, found its Twitter account suspended without warning Wednesday evening.

Sen. Joe Manchin has a message for Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke: Stay away from my guns.

A Chinese province which borders Hong Kong has ordered 150,000 police officers to step up their effort in anti-riot campaigns in a warning to anti-government protesters in the financial hub.

Senate Republicans are responding cautiously to a new proposal to expand background checks for gun sales that the Trump administration is circulating on Capitol Hill.

Progressive cable news channel MSNBC posted an online poll to try to measure support for gun control, but they were likely disappointed with the overwhelming result.

Andrew Pollack, the father of Parkland victim Meadow Pollack says guns aren’t the problem in America when it comes to mass shootings, he instead blames liberal policies for enabling the mentally ill and evil to kill.

Beto O’Rourke is ratcheting up his new emphasis on confiscating assault-style weapons and is taking a looser, more aggressive campaign style in order to push himself back into relevancy, even if it creates a liability for other Democrats.

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Shiela Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said members of the House of Representatives would have to start "flooding" the Senate in order to get gun control measures passed.

A Georgia homeowner fatally shot three teenagers who were purportedly trying to rob him and two others on Monday night, officials said.

Democrats advanced a new measure this week to encourage states to pass “red flag” laws. These so-called extreme risk protection orders authorize removing guns and ammunition from individuals deemed as dangerous by some anonymous, unaccountable person, but it would not include the ready-made lists of gang members.

As of today, close to 640,00 German citizens are legally permitted to carry a deterrent gun or similar self-defense weapon. To put things in perspective, in 2014, there were just 260,000.

Prospects for a bipartisan deal on gun control legislation have dimmed significantly as President Trump and Democratic leaders appear to be far apart on the key issue of expanding background checks.

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke made a very off-the-cuff, fiery statement during the Democratic debate on Thursday: “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” he said.

Schools across New York began the academic year with a new tool intended to prevent student suicides and violence: the ability to ask a court to remove a troubled person's access to firearms.

At the Democratic-primary debate in Houston last night, Beto O’Rourke formally killed off one of the gun-control movement’s favorite taunts: The famous “Nobody is coming for your guns, wingnut.” Asked bluntly whether he was proposing confiscation, O’Rourke abandoned the disingenuous euphemisms that have hitherto marked his descent into extremism, and confirmed as plainly as can be that he was. “Hell yes,” he said, “we’re going to take your AR-15.”

Beto O’Rourke launched an expletive-fueled defense of his call Sunday to ban assault-style weapons and impose mandatory buybacks of AR-15s and AK-47s while also pushing back at critics — including fellow 2020 Democrat Pete Buttigieg.

Sen. Rand Paul acknowledged that part of the problem behind the nation's mass shootings is cultural and moral, but also qualified that the government can take steps to prevent them.

During the Reign of Terror, the most bloodthirsty member of France’s revolutionary government, Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois, a “vehement, emotional and vulgar man, craving the center of the stage, dramatizing and gesticulating and bellowing when excited” (Ch. 7), called for the executions of “merchants.”