A gun control measure in Hawaii failed by a narrow vote this week, after several state Democrats crossed the aisle to vote against it. The defeat of Senate Bill 401, which sought to ban assault-style ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — State lawmakers are taking up a new round of gun control legislation and heard public testimony Tuesday morning on several bills that would create new rules around firearms. The ...

Dec. 14, 2012 -- Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is the second deadliest shooting in American history, but whether this mass tragedy will yield any ...

New Mexico Republicans are warning the likely passage of a semiautomatic firearms prohibition law in Santa Fe will turn law-abiding citizens into potential criminals, citing the types of guns targeted ...

Colorado has taken an unprecedented approach to a decades-old dilemma for gun-control advocates: limiting the firepower of the popular AR-15 rifle. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, this past ...

The deadly mass shooting at a school in British Columbia came as Canadian authorities face significant obstacles in rolling out a nationwide firearms buyback that is mired in practical and logistical ...