Gun Dealers Lose Appeal to Block New York Background Check Law
Supreme Court
Gun Dealers Lose Appeal to Block New York Background Check Law
2023-09-14 20:19:07
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal from New York gun dealers trying to block a new background check law that would have state police review gun license applications instead of the Federal... Read More

Thompson Presses for Vote on Background Checks Act
Guns
Thompson Presses for Vote on Background Checks Act
2023-03-31 20:38:09
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., is asking House and Senate leaders to call a vote on tougher gun purchase background checks in the wake of the tragic mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Thompson, a Blue... Read More

Biden Signs Executive Order to Increase Gun Background Checks
Guns
Biden Signs Executive Order to Increase Gun Background Checks
2023-03-15 15:06:58
by Dan McCue

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at increasing the number of background checks conducted before the sale of a firearm. Last June, in the wake of mass shootings at a supermarket in... Read More

Senate GOP Blocks Domestic Terrorism Bill, Gun Policy Debate
U.S. Senate
Senate GOP Blocks Domestic Terrorism Bill, Gun Policy Debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, failed in the Senate as Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun... Read More

House Passes Legislation to Expand Background Checks
In The News
House Passes Legislation to Expand Background Checks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emboldened by their majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are making a new push to enact the first major new gun control laws in more than two decades -- starting with stricter background checks.   The House... Read More

Mod Dems Won the House in 2018, That Was Just the Beginning
Congress
Mod Dems Won the House in 2018, That Was Just the Beginning
2019-09-05 20:42:51
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON - What it comes down to is this: Despite many in the media trumpeting the "fact" that all the momentum in the Democratic Party in 2018 was on the far-left, mid-term voters overwhelmingly endorsed moderates, rewarding their common-sense approach... Read More

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