The first piece of national gun control legislation was passed on June 26, 1934. The National Firearms Act (NFA) — part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “ New Deal for Crime “— was meant to ...

Federal gun policy is shifting from a narrow focus on who may not own a firearm toward a broader question of who counts as a regulated gun buyer, seller, or carrier in the first place. As proposals ...

Gun-control giants Brady, Everytown for Gun Safety, and Giffords have jumped into a major federal lawsuit to defend the National Firearms Act, and they are doing it side-by-side with the Department of ...

Michael Bloomberg proposed a sweeping array of federal gun control measures Thursday, calling for a national gun licensing system and stricter background checks, hundreds of millions of dollars in new ...

(CNN) — After pushback from both gun rights and gun control groups, the Trump administration has quietly abandoned its plan to merge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the ...

Federal calls for action after recent mass shootings have put Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP state lawmakers on the defensive. Now they’re laying the groundwork to block federal gun regulations through ...

President Obama is trying to regain some traction for federal gun control measures by visiting states that are moving forward on their own. On Wednesday, the president speaks in Colorado, where ...

State Democrats aren’t slowing down on efforts to regulate guns in Colorado, with more bills introduced this legislative ...