gun rights

The Supreme Court has sidestepped a major decision on gun rights in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns

A Virginia Republican state senator says she’s running for governor next year as an unabashed conservative on a platform of promoting gun rights

An unprecedented show of force by gun-rights activists is expected on Monday in Virginia. Thousands of gun activists are expected to turn out. Second Amendment groups have identified the state as a rallying point for the fight against what they see as a national erosion of gun rights. Authorities in Virginia are taking precautions since extremist groups have blanketed social...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says he is declaring a state of emergency over threats from militia groups ahead of a gun-rights rally next week.

Hundreds of people who own guns and are in favor of gun rights gathered in Spotsylvania County Tuesday night to show their support for a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” resolution. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Another county in Virginia has officially declared itself a sanctuary for Second Amendment rights as Democrats take control of the state government in Richmond. The News & Advance in Lynchburg reported that the Bedford County Board of Supervisors approved the sanctuary resolution Monday night at a meeting attended by more than 1,000 people. More than 40 people spoke during the…

Gun owners rallied at Virginia’s Capitol Monday. They’re resisting new gun laws that could be approved by the 2020 General Assembly. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Maryland State Police is allowing the removal of restrictions on business owners’ concealed carry permits to clarify ambiguities that business owners say they need.

Georgia Republicans have chosen Brian Kemp to face Democrat Stacey Abrams for governor in a November matchup that will test history and highlight the widening gulf between the two major parties in style and substance in the era of President Donald Trump. Kemp, a two-term secretary of state, trounced longtime Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle in a runoff Tuesday after campaigning...

By her early 20s, Maria Butina appeared to have a budding political career and a mini furniture empire in her remote Siberian hometown. Then she abandoned both to pursue her passion for gun rights — and, prosecutors say, to act as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States. Butina, 29, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Washington to charges she...

In the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, there has been a national conversation about banning assault rifles. But what defines an assault rifle is up for debate. Here is everything you need to know about assault rifles.

The new law was created to satisfy both gun rights advocates and gun control advocates in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that killed 17 people. The NRA still filed a lawsuit hours after Florida Governor Rick Scott signed it, claiming it violates the Second and 14th Amendments.