Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was carrying a gun in or near his waistband when he was killed on Saturday, but videos show he had not withdrawn it and was disarmed before being shot multiple times.

While the politicians debate immigration on the national stage, the debate over gun control has been renewed in Illinois. Gun control advocates and several police chiefs believe these mass shootings could be prevented by passing the right laws. Laws that ...

(The Center Square) - After a heated floor debate, the final bill in a series of proposed gun control measures failed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday. The legislation would have served to ban “machine gun conversion devices ...

New bill would tighten rules on dealers, ban some military-grade firearms. Supporters cite safety, critics call it unconstitutional.

The invocation appears like a litany after every mass shooting — and the backlash is just as inevitable. As if the slaughter of children amid screams and shattered stained glass wasn’t cause enough for grief, American opinion makers were convulsed once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Minnesota State Capitol, April 24, 2025. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) Tensions between Democrats and Republicans were on full display during the second and final meeting ...

() - Colorado lawmakers will consider another update to the state’s “Red Flag” gun law this week in a Senate committee.

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The gun-control debate is perhaps the most misrepresented – and therefore misunderstood – issue in American politics. Many casual observers see the disagreement as a simple matter of one side supporting gun-control measures while the other side ...

The National Rifle Association and others have argued citizens need guns to fend off government. The killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who carried a pistol, set off debate.