Brady Campaign

Behind the statistics and the political blame game over rising gun violence are the victims

Gun control advocates are hailing New Jersey’s release of near-real-time firearms trafficking data as a trailblazing use of federal information, but Second Amendment advocates and skeptical Republicans question whether the report amounts to a way around a federal limitation on the release of some data. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled the data Tuesday as part of a campaign promise to...

With passage of an enormous budget bill, the GOP-controlled Congress all but wrapped up its legislating for the year. But will it be enough to convince voters to give Republicans another term at the helm? In two big ways, Republicans have done what they promised. They passed a long sought tax overhaul bill that slashed tax rates. They’ve rolled back...

President Donald Trump discusses why he was so unhappy about a new spending bill that Congress passed ahead of a government shutdown deadline. Trump had threatened to veto it but ultimately signed the $1.3 trillion measure.

How easily a stolen gun can be matched to one used in a crime depends on laws that can either speed or impede the trace. Making the job easier: mandatory reporting of lost or stolen guns and background checks, measures opposed by the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups but favored by gun control organizations. But these regulations...

A satirical website is responsible for one of the starkest commentaries on mass killings, and it draws its power through repetition. After the Texas church shooting this week, The Onion posted for the sixth time a variation of the same article headlined: “‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” The article changes datelines — this...

The Air Force acknowledged Monday that it had failed to enter Devin Patrick Kelley’s domestic violence conviction into a national database that would have prevented him from buying the Ruger AR-556 rifle he used to kill 26 people in a small Texas church. Kelley was found guilty by a court-martial of assaulting his wife and fracturing his infant stepson’s skull...

Gov. Greg Abbott is drawing criticism for cracking a joke about reporters at a gun range.