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Gun control and charitable deduction control

Gun control and charitable deduction control

Charity |  As Congress is debating gun control under the glare of media spotlights, a quiet threat is emerging under the radar: charity contributions control. Non-profit…

ALL TOO COMMON: Pallbearers carry the body of Joseph Briggs following a funeral in Chicago. Briggs, 16, was shot during a drive-by shooting while he was sitting on his front porch with his sister—one of nine people killed and 46 wounded by gunfire in Chicago during the June 9 weekend.
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Loaded questions

Gun Rights |  The mass shootings that have prompted a national debate over gun control are tragic—but rare. What about the gun violence that takes the most American…

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre

Agreement on background checks falters

Politics |  Groups on opposite sides of the gun control debate found almost nothing to agree on in the package of weapons restrictions President Barack Obama proposed…

Participants at a National Gun Appreciation Day Rally Saturday in Salt Lake City.

The hunting amendment?

Law |  In the wake of massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., the movie theatre shootings in Aurora, Colo., and a string of similar incidents too long to…

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant

Vocal and organized

Gun Rights |  Gun rights advocates, including state governmental and law enforcement officials, voice their opposition to President Obama’s gun control plan

Four children look on as President Barack Obama signs executive orders.

Obama demands gun control for America's children

Law |  President Barack Obama officially launched his campaign to reduce gun violence on Wednesday, signing 23 executive orders and calling on Congress to restrict…

Participants of a recent gun rights rally in Denver.

Guns, abortion, and tyrants

Law |  Guns and abortion. One is an enumerated, constitutional right, and the other is not. The Second Amendment guarantees the right of the people of the United…

With Vice President Joe Biden at his side, President Obama speaks about gun control.

Control politicians, not guns

Law |  If laws were enough to deter criminal behavior prisons would be empty. The latest effort to "control" guns in America is as likely to deter someone intent on…

President Obama makes a point during Monday's press conference.

Obama announces strategy for stricter gun laws

Law |  President Barack Obama revealed on Monday plans for a two-pronged strategy for enacting stricter gun-control measures. First, the president plans to ask…

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, holds hands with her husband, Mark Kelly, while exiting Town Hall at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown, Conn.

Giffords launches gun control lobby group

National |  Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband waged war on guns Tuesday, launching a political action committee aimed at decreasing gun violence.

President Barack Obama walks off stage after delivering a speech at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

President pushes for gun-control measures

Law |  President Barack Obama plans to put his “full weight” behind the push for new gun control legislation in the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown, Conn.

President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden in the White House briefing room.

Biden to head gun control commission

Law |  President Barack Obama on Wednesday appointed Vice President Joe Biden to head a commission that will make recommendations on new gun control laws by January.

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