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  1. Who Will Win Georgia’s Insane GOP Gubernatorial Runoff?Democrats are hoping the wild GOP contest will help their candidate Stacey Abrams.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. Florida Sold Guns Without Background Checks Because of Forgotten PasswordFlorida GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam is a loud NRA guy. His staff didn’t do their jobs because they forgot a password. He didn’t notice.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. NRA Announces Gunrunning Lawbreaker As New PresidentLadies and gentlemen, Oliver North!
    By Benjamin Hart
  4. Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Points Gun at Teen in New AdBrian Kemp is in a competition with his Republican rivals to show how much he loves guns. But they could go too far.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. Congressman Lays Loaded Gun on the Table And It Doesn’t Shoot AnybodySouth Carolina’s Ralph Norman wanted to show that guns don’t shoot people without people being involved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. Denying Merrick Garland a Hearing Biggest Accomplishment of McConnell’s CareerMcConnell knows conservatives will forgive him — and Trump — almost anything in exchange for Supreme Court appointments.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. Not So Long Ago, the Second Amendment Didn’t Guarantee the Right to Own a GunA slim Supreme Court majority transformed the law of the land in 2008. Another such decision might restore its narrower meaning.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Citigroup Issues Gun-Control Rules for Its Clients and Business PartnersCEO Michael Corbat wrote in a memo that the company is trying to “do our part.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  9. No Immigration or Obamacare Deals As Huge Spending Bill Shambles Toward PassageMost of the controversial riders are out, but modest gun measures could yet be enacted.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. Shooting Leaves One Dead, Two Injured at Maryland High SchoolPolice said the shooter died after exchanging fire with a school officer.
    By Benjamin Hart
  11. Republicans Need to Stop Politicizing Airline Dog DeathsConservatives are exploiting the death of a puppy on a United Airlines flight to push their statist, dog-storage-control agenda.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. California Teacher Accidentally Discharges Weapon in ClassroomJust hours ahead of the nationwide walkout by students in support of gun control.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. Study: When NRA Members Meet for Their Convention, Gun Injuries FallA new study finds that when the “good guys with guns” hole up for their annual get-together, America becomes significantly safer.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. Trump: Take the Guns First. Due Process LaterTrump’s departure from conservative orthodoxy on guns seemed to shock lawmakers. It probably won’t last.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  15. the law
    The Second Amendment Is No Barrier to Stricter Gun LawsThe courts have found that even all-out bans on assault-style weapons are in harmony with the right to keep and bear arms.
    By Cristian Farias
  16. WSJ Editorial Board Member: Arm Teachers With Stun GrenadesReading, writing, and action-hero reflexes.
    By Benjamin Hart
  17. Two New Polls Show Widespread Support for Stricter Gun LawsThe same surveys show President Trump dipping in popularity.
    By Benjamin Hart
  18. foreign policy
    The American Gun Glut Is a Problem for the Entire WorldIllegal trafficking, military aid, and small arms exports make U.S. guns available to buyers around the world — including terrorists and drug cartels.
    By Jonah Shepp
  19. Trump’s Minor Gun Actions Are Probably All Congress Will AllowThe White House is rolling out tweaks to existing laws, but Republicans in Congress appear resistant to even the mildest gun-control measures.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  20. Armed Officer at Stoneman Douglas Didn’t Enter School During Shooting“He never went in,” Sheriff Scott Israel said.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  21. Trump Wants Armed Teachers and Universal Background ChecksIn a “listening session” on gun control, Trump floated some unhinged ideas along with some downright reasonable ones.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. Why ‘Red Flag Laws’ Are Gaining Bipartisan Support After ParklandGun-violence restraining orders offer a way to temporarily disarm the mentally ill, based on the concerns of family members and law enforcement.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  23. Florida: Guns 1, Students 0Florida Republicans didn’t even wait a decent interval to shoot down a proposed assault weapons ban.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. Trump Orders Bump-Stock RegulationsA week after the Florida high-school massacre, he decided to address a previous mass shooting.
    By Benjamin Hart
  25. Clarence Thomas Angry That SCOTUS Doesn’t Love GunsThomas can’t seem to get three other conservative justices to get aggressive in defending gun rights. So he’s drawing attention to the problem.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. White House Expresses Support for Improved Gun Background ChecksIt’s hardly a major step, but it’s something.
    By Benjamin Hart
  27. The Stoneman Douglas Students Are the New Faces of Gun ReformTheir fierce moral urgency is the jolt the movement needs.
    By Benjamin Hart
  28. Why Rural America Controls the Debates Over Guns and ImmigrationOur constitutional system gives disproportionate influence to the nonmetro areas that control the party controlling Washington.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. People Reported the Florida Shooter, Like Trump Asked. He Still Got a Gun.School officials, police, and even the FBI received repeated warnings about Nikolas Cruz, but they couldn’t legally prevent him from buying firearms.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  30. Every Attempt to Change Gun Laws Under TrumpTrump and other GOP lawmakers have worked to loosen gun restrictions, and the few bipartisan efforts to address mass shootings have stalled.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  31. The NRA’s Greatest Weapon Is the Truth. Or a Giant Hammer. One of the Two.The organization’s new ad is quite confusing.
    By Benjamin Hart
  32. Report: Gorka Was Wanted By Hungarian Police During His White House TenureHe called the report “#FAKENEWS.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  33. Gun Lobby to Push for National Concealed-Carry RightsUsing a bipartisan bill to tighten gun background checks as bait, the NRA and its GOP allies are pushing to nationalize concealed-carry licenses.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. Senators Are Working on Bipartisan Bill to Fix Gun Background ChecksThe legislation, sparked by the Texas church shooting, would give states and federal agencies more incentives to update the federal database.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. Politics Group-Chat: What We Talk About When We Talk About Gun ControlThree New York writers try to make sense of the gun-control debate.
    By Jonathan Chait, Ed Kilgore, and Eric Levitz
  36. ‘Bump-Stock’ Bill Offers Chance to Isolate Second Amendment AbsolutistsDianne Feinstein’s proposal to ban “bump-stock” devices creates an opportunity to drive a wedge between 2nd-amendment absolutists and other GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. gun control
    Are Republicans Ready to Take a Baby Step on Gun Control?GOP lawmakers haven’t committed to banning the device used to mimic an automatic weapon in Las Vegas — but they said they’ll think about it.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  38. If Only Non–Gun Owners Voted, Clinton Would Have Won 48 StatesAnd if only gun owners did, Trump would have won 49.
    By Eric Levitz
  39. Do Coastal Liberals Hate Middle America?Sometimes it is concern for, not indifference to, the values and needs of “the Heartland” that makes liberals fight its political representatives.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. Montana Special-Election Candidates Shoot Screens With GunsTo prove he supports gun rights, Democrat Rob Quist shot a screen with a gun. To prove Quist opposes gun rights, his rival shot a screen with a gun.
    By Eric Levitz
  41. gun violence
    Can a Gun Victim and a Gun Advocate Change Each Other’s Minds?What happens when 16 strangers on both sides of America’s most contentious divide are asked to take on someone else’s story? An experiment in empathy.
    By Lisa Miller
  42. guns
    A Secretive Billionaire’s Dreams of Creating America’s Foremost Guns EmpireThere had been Big Pharma, and Big Oil, but never Big Gun. Stephen Feinberg’s Cerberus Capital set out to create it.
    By Stephen Witt
  43. Prison Stocks Up, Gun Stocks Down As Investors React to Trump’s ElectionAfter a quick drop late Tuesday night, the Dow Jones has stabilized on Wednesday.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  44. With Father’s Campaign in Chaos, Eric Trump Looked to Trade Guns on the InternetA user with a name that appears to belong to the presidential candidate’s son posted on a hunting site looking to exchange firearms.
    By Yashar Ali
  45. Candidates Debate Constitution, Until Trump Says He Might Just Blow It UpThe GOP candidate sounded reasonable for a bit. Then he said something crazy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. 3-D-Printed Guns Will Soon Require a Background Check in CaliforniaThe law took two years to pass.
    By Kenny Wassus and Cait Munro
  47. select all
    Apple Will Replace Its Pistol Emoji With a Squirt GunYou can still use the bomb, the syringe, and the skull for naming your exes in your address book.
    By Brian Feldman
  48. campus carry laws
    New Tennessee Law Lets College Faculty, Staff Carry Guns on CampusTennessee governor Bill Haslam allowed the bill to become law without his signature.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  49. Toddlers Have Shot at Least 23 People in 2016Guns don’t kill people. Toddlers kill people.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. Mississippi Defies Feds in Brave Struggle to Bring Guns to ChurchIf you love your guns, why wouldn’t you want to carry them to worship with you, Feds be damned?
    By Ed Kilgore
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