In the wake of the mass killing of 49 people by a sole gunman in a gay nightclub in Florida, the United Nations (UN) human rights chief has urged the leadership of the United States to live up to its ...

The deadline is set for April 13. If the governor does not sign, it will automatically become law.

Two major gun control policies backed by Democrats passed out of their respective chambers on Monday in the Colorado Legislature. House Bill 1144, which would ban the manufacture and sale of ...

Advocates of common-sense gun laws often cite the number of firearm deaths in the United States—nearly 50,000 per year—as a ...

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 ...

Advocates for gun control have pushed more than a dozen separate bills through Virginia’s state legislature in less than two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers continue their push for new gun control legislation in the wake of ...

A Democratic Senator called out the GOP's "aversion to gun control" on Sunday following the deadly shooting at Brown University. On Saturday, a gunman killed two students and critically wounded nine ...

In the United States, David Hogg is a leading campaigner for gun control, while in Europe, Greta Thunberg fights to defend the climate. They may only be teenagers, but both have drawn worldwide ...