A slate of 17 gun-oriented bills are up for debate at the State House, but the most controversial is one to ban ownership of ...

A Democratic leader in Chicago is calling for stricter gun control measures following the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old ...

Advocates of common-sense gun laws often cite the number of firearm deaths in the United States—nearly 50,000 per year—as a ...

There have been at least 75 school shootings in the United States in 2025. Some of the victims of the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, had even faced a shooter at ...

Since July 2022, more than 1,600 new concealed carry gun permits were issued in Toms River, the most of any municipality in ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Mass killings in the United States dropped to their lowest level in two decades in 2025, even as Congress failed to enact ...

A similar script unfurled when an Afghan asylee was arrested for the November 26 shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The Trump administration extrapolated the actions of one suspect ...

“Given the Second Amendment’s central role in our constitutional scheme, the government bears a significant burden in justifying restrictions on that right. Specifically, the government must show that ...

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Early Sunday morning, right around last call, a gunman walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire with an assault rifle and handgun, killing 49 people and injuring 53. The ...