Gun Control
The final press conference of President Barack Obama’s first term today at 11:37 a.m. EST from the White House.
President Obama is planning for his State of the Union address next month. He’s also hoping to revise immigration laws as reinstate gun control measures.
"Meet the Press" anchor David Gregory is off the hook and will not face any charges after showing a gun magazine on the weekly news show.
Former Arizona Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, met with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday in the City Hall to presumably to talk about gun-control legislation, as reported by the New York Post. The Mayor tweeted a picture of Giffords and her husband, astronaut, Mark Kelly in a meeting.
A Connecticut lawyer has filed a $100 million lawsuit on behalf of one of the six-year-old survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown.
More than 200 teachers arrived to take a gun training course in Utah, spurred to take up arms in their schools after the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Nearly seven in 10 Americans support the idea of placing strong or moderate limits gun ownership following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday.
Westboro Baptist Church White House Petition Becomes Most Signed Petition, Exceeds Texas Succession Petition
Electronic Arts, the creator of the “Medal of Honor” video game series, has pulled ads from its website that linked to opportunities to purchase real guns.
A study by the Pew Research Center found that opinions towards gun control have only changed slightly since the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting that left 28 dead, including the shooter and his mother.
Republicans are under intense pressure to mitigate their hardline stances on many issues, including immigration and gun control.
A petition seeking the deportation of British CNN host Piers Morgan has gathered over 80,000 signatures after being submitted to the White House website.
A celebrity filled campaign video calling on Americans to "Demand A Plan to End Gun Violence" was release on Friday and has gone viral on YouTube.
Hours after President Obama posted his response to the petitions posted to the White House's "We The People" website regarding gun control, YouTube and Facebook users have flooded the web with opinions and thoughts regarding the petitions.
President Obama called for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban in the wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. last week.
