Gun-Isolated

Federal spending bill has pro-gun provisions

Alan Fram, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate bill preventing a federal shutdown would make four long-standing gun protections permanent, including one preventing the Justice Department from requiring firearms dealers to conduct inventories to make sure weapons haven't been stolen, congressional aides from both parties said...
Members of the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago march in response to a recent shooting in and around their neighborhood September 5, 2012 in Chicago. (Photo by Frank Polich/Getty Images)

Banning assault weapons isn't enough

Michael Skolnik
OPINION - In the wake of the political cowardliness by most in Washington and with many Americans still clinging to their right to own weapons that are used on the battlefields of war and in first grade classrooms, it will take a different approach to end this madness...