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White House keeps firing a dummy round on Chicago gun control.

After Las Vegas, it's nice to see that some Republicans are willing to consider banning bump stocks. But that's not nearly enough.

Those legislators who support them should find themselves in serious trouble at the polls next year.

The elephant has been in the room for years: gun industry money.

My father was the perfect “NRA gun nut,” with one small exception: He had zero tolerance for civilians owning assault weapons.

Is Las Vegas destined to join the ranks of mass shootings ignored by Congress?

Week ahead

Donald Trump and Steve Bannon have encouraged a civil war between the president's base of support — mostly white and worried — and everyone else, says Robert Reich.

Zirpoli: Double standard for gun control

In Baltimore, a debate about mandatory minimums for illegal gun possession; from Stanford University, a study that throws big doubts on a classic argument of the NRA.

The more government the NRA controls, the more fearful and angry they become, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Black death has been spectacle for generations, and it continues today in clickbait videos of police shootings, says Leonard Pitts Jr. 

"It Comes At Night"—the sophomore release from "Krishna" director Trey Edward Shults and reliable indie production company A24—opens with a scene horrifying in

For too many Baltimoreans this city might as well be Aleppo in Syria or Kabul in Afghanistan or Mosul in Iraq.

“It Comes At Night”—the sophomore release from “Krishna” director Trey Edward Shults and reliable indie production company A24—opens with a scene horrifying in

NRA decides that not all licensed gun owners are deserving of protection.

Recent federal actions suggest animal cruelty has not gone out of fashion in the U.S.

Ten years after the Virginia Tech shootings, we still need to make sure that every person in America who has been adjudicated a danger to themselves or others is barred from being able to buy a gun. Before you tune out thinking this is just another gun control appeal, know this: The NRA agrees.

GOP wrongly endorses baiting, trapping and aerial shooting in Alaskan public lands

The research is clear: More guns and easier access to them won't make us safer.

Gov. Hogan hasn't tried to change Md. gun laws, but his appointees to one board are loosening the way they're interpreted.

Fourth Circuit's approval of assault weapons ban is the first of many squabbles to come

Congress is poised to roll back a measure on Friday long championed by Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin that requires oil and gas companies to disclose how much they

About 40 women spent a day at the at the Baltimore County Game & Fish Protective Association center in Carney on Oct. 30, for the National Rifle Association's Women On Target program. Started in 1999, the course is designed to encourage and educate women new to recreational shooting and hunting, while addressing safe firearm handling, storage and basic marksmanship.

The Baltimore City Council gave preliminary approval Monday to a citywide ban on toy guns that are made to look like pistols, machine guns and rifles — after the shooting of a 14-year-old boy by police.

Beginning next January, Republicans will control both houses of Congress and the Oval Office. It is easier for Democrats to blame those who voted for independent candidates, as well as those who stayed home. Much more sobering — and possibly the start of a more productive conversation about how to come back from this defeat — would be a confession that they picked their weaker fighter and got sent to the canvas. In the next election in 2018, will both parties continue to fight the

Who's ready to succeed Barbara Mikulski? It's no contest: Chris Van Hollen.

The case of an Anne Arundel County seven-year-old who nibbled a pastry into the shape of a gun and was suspended for it has been finally settled after more than three years.

Emergency rooms are struggling to save gunshot victims arriving in worse shape than ever before, with more bullet wounds, and increasingly shot in the head.

If you want to see an example of a small lobbying group intimidating Democrats and Republicans prior to an election, just look at the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that sailed through Congress, and then again after the bill was vetoed by President Barack Obama.

As Donald Trump's strategists try to soften his image, he has taken his assault against Hillary Clinton to a new level with a bizarre suggestion that would make her more vulnerable to violence from opponents, specifically fervent supporters of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Study reveals widening gun ownership disparity and begs a question: Why can't gun owners be held accountable?

Baltimore, Chicago and other cities are a case study on the limits of local gun control, not its perceived failure

Parents need to make a back-to-school resolution to pressure Congress on guns.

If you want any more proof that keeping the NRA happy is more important for our politicians than keeping Americans safe, check out the laws pushed through in eight states allowing college students to carry guns on their campuses.

The Korryn Gaines case shows again that guns don't keep us safe.

The only ray of sunshine in all of this is that it put the lie to the NRA's bogus claim that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

Baton Rouge deaths were made that much easier by America's lax attitude toward guns

What do religious extremists, terrorists, hate groups and mentally ill criminals have in common? They have easy access to military-style assault weapons and

As the debate over access to guns in America rages in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we aren't loudly discussing one thing we really should be despite a presidential push to do so: smart guns. They may not stop a committed killer, but they save your child's life.

Harris isn't 'pro-life' when it comes to guns

A modicum of sanity on guns

Settle the gun control dispute by putting the question to voters

Let's ignore the NRA and listen to the will of the American people who oppose giving guns to terrorists

Rising problem of gun violence demands Congress take appropriate action to limit gun ownership

House Democrats, frustrated over the lack of progress on gun control, staged a sit-in on the chamber's floor Wednesday, and vowed not to leave until Republican leaders allowed a vote on a proposal to ban people on terrorism watch lists from buying firearms.

What's wrong with America?

No one needs assault rifles for home defense

Even before the horrific attack in Orlando last week, life in 21st century America has become intolerably, pervasively fearful. Our mad proliferation of guns, and the obscene loopholes that allow dangerous people to access them freely, are the most consistent engines of terror in our society today.

U.S. needs 'no fly, no buy' law denying gun purchases to people so strongly suspected of terrorism they are kept off commercial air travel