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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. A growing online gun rights movement known as "3D2A," and the ...

WASHINGTON − The drinking habits of the founding fathers were fodder for the Supreme Court on March 2 as the justices wrestled with whether someone’s use of marijuana and other drugs makes them too ...

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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 ...