What can be done to prevent gun suicides as U.S. rate hits all-time high Firearms are involved in more than half of suicides in the U.S. The gun suicide rate has reached an all-time high ...

Therefore, if libertarians want to restrain America's adventurism abroad, they will have to stop looking at guns from a narrow rights-based perspective, as is their wont, and start looking at them ...

It has always been about the GOP’s dangerous alliance with the corporate gun lobby. That much is reflected in a proposal ...

Ken Green’s tipping point came as he watched an angry mob storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Ken Green’s tipping point came as he watched an angry mob storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“When will America put people before guns?” was the headline on Paula Coulahan’s column here on Jan. 19. That sounds so very compassionate but in reality twists the issue and obstructs its ...

State Rep. Daniel Didech, D-Buffalo Grove, said his bill to prohibit anyone from out of state convicted of a misdemeanor stalking charge that would be a felony in Illinois would be prohibited from ...

Now, some lawmakers want to use the same approach to reduce gun thefts. The House Judiciary Committee took up a bill that makes it a class 6 felony to steal a gun. Right now, the penalty for gun ...

The House Appropriations Committee passed an amended version of Senate File 196, “Second Amendment Protection Act amendments,” on Wednesday after three hours of public testimony spread over two days.

“Guns are a symbol for a lot of people, and they mean different things. I think the symbol to some Americans is of tradition, of family, of history. And others, I think, view it as a symbol of ...