"This is the only time any level of American government, municipal state or county has ever gone out to search the hidden remains of victims of racial violence in American history," Ellsworth said.

A coalition of gun rights groups is challenging a New York law that would ban several popular handguns, including the Glock.

Soon after Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal charges in the 2024 killing of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, his lawyers filed a motion arguing that separate state charges should be ...

A month after National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg announced that Sam Alito was retiring (a story NPR later had to retract) ...

The Supreme Court could overturn state bans on semiautomatic rifles that would invalidate laws in a dozen states, including ...

A Lombard native, Dan Petrella has written for newspapers from Chicago to Carbondale. Before joining the Tribune in 2017, he ...

If we’re concerned about politicians profiting off insider information, the bigger issue is with the things you can’t trace, ...

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that Illinois' ban on AR-15-style rifles and certain magazines violates the Second Amendment, finding that the firearms are "in common use" for lawful purposes, ...

After loosening a restrictive test for gun regulations 2 years ago, the Supreme Court moved back to the right this term. A bigger 2nd Amendment case is up next.

On May 30, 1990, New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio signed a ban on assault weapons into law, making good on one of his campaign promises and giving New Jersey some of the strictest gun regulations in the ...

The Supreme Court's assault weapons case is poised to be a landmark Second Amendment ruling, which pro-gun activists are optimistic about.

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