The first piece of national gun control legislation was passed on June 26, 1934. The National Firearms Act (NFA) — part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “ New Deal for Crime “— was meant to ...

Mass killings in the United States dropped to their lowest level in two decades in 2025, even as Congress failed to enact any new federal gun control laws. Seventeen incidents met the threshold for ...

The December 14 mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, aimed at the Jewish community during Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi Beach, stunned the world. Fifteen people were killed, including a 10-year-old ...

On the night of March 29, 2021, a man was shot to death on a Philadelphia street, making him the 119th victim of gun-related homicide in that city alone this year. Even more tragic is that the man, 55 ...

Criminal justice has emerged as one of the most wide-ranging and politically charged areas on lawmakers’ agendas in this year ...

As the legislative session nears its end, New Mexico lawmakers are making a final push to pass Senate Bill 17, addressing gun ...

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Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the ghastly Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando) that it is “theologically inconceivable” to implement real gun control in the ...

The country’s stringent rules are often lauded as a model policy by proponents of gun control in the United States. By Amelia Nierenberg and Jin Yu Young Mass shootings are rare in Australia, which ...

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 ...