Gun Rights

Clinton says regulations can be passed while still respecting the Second Amendment and “respecting responsible gun owners.''

A special 11-judge federal appeals court panel will consider whether to side with the gun lobby's effort to dramatically loosen California's restrictions on carrying concealed firearms.

Pennsylvania would no longer be the only state that bars hunters from using semiautomatic rifles if bills pending before a House committee are approved.

Just months after the Obama administration was forced to back down on a proposed ammunition ban, a Utah Republican has filed legislation that would force the feds to allow guns and ammo for “all lawful purposes.”

Firearms advocates are warning new rules floated by the U.S. State Department could force gun industry writers and bloggers to ask for government permission to publish information on new guns and ammunition or face huge fines and prison time.

In Idaho, bringing guns into a school as a safety measure is a much more accepted option where Second Amendment rights are highly protected and libertarian ideals run deep.

At issue in the case is a 2013 state law called the Second Amendment Protection Act that makes it a felony for any U.S. government employee to attempt to enforce federal regulations for Kansas-only firearms, ammunition and gun accessories. It allows lawsuits by the state attorney general or county prosecutors to block federal enforcement attempts.

In a full-throated defense of firearms rights, actor Vince Vaughn says banning guns to fight crime is like banning forks to fight obesity.

Texas lawmakers approved carrying handguns openly on the streets of the nation's second most-populous state, sending the bill to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who immediately promised to sign it and reverse a ban dating to the post-Civil War era.

Legislation to let people carry a concealed weapon without a permit has died for the year in South Carolina.

People in the nation's capital no longer have to show a good reason to get a permit to carry concealed handguns outside their homes and businesses.

A New Jersey Democrat is resurrecting failed federal legislation that could drive Internet ammunition sales offline.

Reports say the student was suspended for one day for wearing the shirt, which bore the NRA logo, an image of a hunting rifle and the words “Protect Your Right.”

Storied gunmaker and top military supplier tells investors to take a bath, or it’s filing for bankruptcy.

A bill expanding background checks to encompass nearly all gun sales in the northwestern state of Oregon made it through the state Legislature on Monday, overcoming obstacles that stymied two previous attempts to pass similar laws.

Minnesota's Senate added language to a bill that would legalize gun silencers — a surprise development as majority Democrats had shown little interest in changing the state's gun laws and a direct challenge to Gov. Mark Dayton's promise that such a measure would meet his veto pen.

The South Carolina House passed a bill that would eliminate the need to get a concealed weapons permit to carry guns in public in the state.