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June 18, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Judge Who Tried to Kill Abortion Pill Now Takes Aim at Gun Control
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has blocked a rule from the ATF expanding gun control regulations.
May 25, 2022
Grace Segers
“We Are Caught in the Most Perverse Version of
Groundhog Day
”
Democrats are sick over the Uvalde massacre, but no one has a plan to get a bipartisan gun reform bill past the Senate filibuster.
March 5, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Joe Manchin Wants to Pass a Popular Gun Control Bill That Will Save Lives, but He Loves the Filibuster More
The failure to pass a background checks bill exposes just how little bipartisanship matters.
October 7, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Democrats Who Stand With the NRA Win Nothing
In fact, two of them just might lose this fall
June 25, 2014
Daniel Webster
Guns Kill People. And If We Had Universal Background Checks, They Wouldn’t Kill So Many.
April 17, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
,
Eric Kingsbury
The Angriest Obama We've Ever Seen
After the Senate failed to expand gun background checks, the president flashes anger
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