Jul 02 California governor signs stringent gun bills, vetoes others By Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press Gov. Jerry Brown signed six stringent gun-control measures Friday that will require people to turn in high-capacity magazines and mandate background checks for ammunition sales. Continue reading
Jun 25 They're simple and cheap. But do tourniquets save lives after mass shootings? By Melissa Bailey, STAT The Orlando shooting has renewed attention to the tourniquet as a simple, cheap solution to save lives in civilian mass shootings. Continue reading
Jun 22 GOP unmoved after Democratic sit-in on guns By Erica Werner, Associated Press A drained and dwindling group of Democrats, some draped in blankets and toting pillows, carried their remarkable House floor sit-in past daybreak Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 17 Gwen's Take: The gun debate, face to face By Gwen Ifill In the wake of Orlando, President Obama's words on the gun debate at a PBS NewsHour Town Hall take on new poignancy. Continue reading
Jun 13 Fact-checking Trump and Clinton on combatting terrorism in the U.S. By Nancy Benac, Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Donald Trump's speech Monday painted a picture of a nation overrun by terrorists and with cowed leaders doing little to keep them out. The reality is far more complex. Clinton, too, spoke about how to fight the terrorist issue, but… Continue reading
Jun 09 No right to carry concealed weapons in public, federal appeals court says By Laura Santhanam In a 7-4 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a 2014 decision in a lawsuit against a San Diego County sheriff who had denied concealed weapons permits to some applicants. Instead, the court said… Continue reading
May 17 Is America finally ready for smart guns? By Sarah Breitenbach, Stateline Gun safety advocates have pushed for commercially available smart, personalized guns that could only be fired by a specific person through radio frequency chips, fingerprint scans or other technology, for more than three decades. Now, there are signs that a… Continue reading
May 01 Can 'smart gun' technology make firearms safer? By Associated Press A so-called "smart gun" is a firearm that uses a ring with a chip in it to send a signal to a circuit board embedded in the firearm so that only an authorized user can fire the gun. Continue reading
Apr 14 Judge allows Newtown lawsuit against gun companies to move forward By Joshua Barajas A Connecticut judge denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the manufacturer and sellers of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings that left 26 people dead. Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch 2:15 Analyzing social media for Super Tuesday insights By PBS News Hour Hari Sreenivasan and the NewsHour data team analyze social media for insights on today’s Super Tuesday vote, including: the topics that matter most to Facebook users (racism, discrimination, Christianity and guns), the most-searched Republican candidate on the Internet (Donald Trump),… Continue watching