gun control

MSNBC Anchor and Boston native Lawrence O’Donnell will be back home this weekend for a live audience chat with Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson, who came to notoriety for his staunch advocacy of gun safety legislation earlier this year. O’Donnell has interviewed Pearson on his MSNBC show “Last Word” several times and isn’t shy about comparing the 28-year-old lawmaker to...

In the wake of last week’s deadly mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, a lawmaker from Florida visited New England Monday to talk about his gun reform efforts. U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, a progressive Democrat from Florida, made a stop in Massachusetts and spoke with students at Tufts University. Frost is the first member of Congress from Generation Z and...

Gun control advocates said that more stringent gun regulations could have prevented Robert Card from legally buying firearms.

There have been 523 mass killings since 2006 resulting in 2,727 deaths as of Nov. 19

Despite boasting some of the country’s strictest gun laws, the number of ghost guns in Massachusetts is growing. Ghost guns are manufactured firearms. Their individual parts are sold in kits to be assembled at home. Once assembled they function like any traditional firearm. What sets ghost guns apart and makes them more dangerous in the eyes of law enforcement...

New York City will begin posting signs proclaiming the iconic tourist destination Times Square as a “Gun Free Zone.” The 25-block business district in the center of Manhattan is arguably the busiest in the United States. Under a sweeping new state gun law that goes into effect Thursday, it would be one of scores of “sensitive” places, including parks, churches...

A new report finds 400 law enforcement officials rushed to Uvalde mass shooting, but “systemic failures” caused delays that lasted more than an hour before the gunman was finally killed

President Joe Biden was interrupted during a speech celebrating the passing of the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

Thursday’s Supreme Court decision on New York’s concealed carry law could leave other gun laws open to challenges – if opponents can prove the laws are not rooted in historical precedent and the Second Amendment. Caroline Mala Corbin, law professor at University of Miami, joins LX News to explain.

In a 6-3 decision by the court’s conservative majority, the justices ruled that requiring people to demonstrate a particular need for carrying a gun in order to get a license to carry one in public violated the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”

Senate bargainers reached agreement Tuesday on a bipartisan gun violence bill, potentially teeing up final passage by week’s end on an incremental but landmark package. Here’s what’s in it and what’s left out.

BRUNSWICK, Maine – One of the Senate’s most moderate members says a new package of negotiated gun reforms doesn’t go far enough to address America’s gun violence epidemic, but Congress still must pass the package, which represents the most significant gun deal brokered by the legislative body in decades. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said lives would be saved by the...

Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina met Monday in Boston to debate a range of issues, including gun control. The debate, which was produced by FOX News, took place at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Dorchester. It came one day after a bipartisan group of senators reached a tentative deal on…

Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings.