TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A 4-year-old child who brought a gun outside his home shot and seriously wounded a 6-year-old neighbor when the weapon somehow discharged as they played together, authorities said Tuesday. The child got the .22-caliber rifle from inside his home in Toms River in southern New Jersey and it discharged accidently […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is trying to boost the chances of gun legislation that could be in jeopardy this week with a trip to the home state of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Obama is visiting the Connecticut capital of Hartford, where last week the governor signed a law with widespread restrictions […]
Attorney General Eric Holder joined Tom Joyner Morning Show correspondent Roland Martin to discuss various pressing topics affecting the nation; including the current gun control initiatives, overspending in the prison system, voting rights and more. Read the entire interview below. ———————– ROLAND MARTIN : … Tonight the National Action Network will have their gala dinner […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In danger of losing congressional momentum, President Barack Obama is drawing attention to Colorado’s newly passed gun control laws as he applies public pressure on Congress to pass similar federal measures. Obama was visiting Denver Wednesday, stepping up his call for universal background checks for gun buyers as well as his demands […]
NEWINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Customers packed gun stores around Connecticut on Tuesday ahead of a vote expected to bring sweeping changes to the state’s gun control laws, including a ban on the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown shooting and a new classification for more than 100 types of […]
NELSON, Ga. (AP) — Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights. The ordinance in the city of Nelson — population 1,300 — was approved Monday night and goes into effect in 10 days. However, it […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and “get squishy” on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough sell on an approaching Senate vote to expand purchasers’ background checks. “Shame on us if we’ve […]
MIAMI (AP) – Public and private school principals could designate teachers and other school employees who would carry concealed weapons on campus at all times in an effort to make schools safer, under legislation that won approval Wednesday from a Florida House committee. It gives principals the option to designate one or several school employees […]
President Obama’s “Organizing for Action” arm retweeted Yoko Ono’s photo of her murdered husband John Lennon’s bloody glasses Thursday night, just as the Senate was preparing a new gun-control package. The picture, published on Yoko Ono’s account a day earlier, contained the text: “Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since […]
Tom and the crew talk about a man who murdered his wife in a hospice before killing himself, see-through yoga pants, assault weapons being dropped from pending gun control laws and North Carolina A&T’s big win.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won’t be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban’s chances of survival now are all but hopeless. The ban is the most controversial firearms restriction that President Barack Obama and other Democrats have pressed for since […]
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Applications for gun permits have jumped in Newtown since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which sparked a renewed debate about stricter gun control laws and a surge in gun sales around the country due to worries about new limits. Newtown in recent years has issued about 130 gun permits […]
