As Illinois lawmakers prepare for the start of the 2024 legislative session on January 4, all eyes are on the potential for new gun control measures to be passed during the lame duck session. This session follows the contentious decisions made in early January 2023, when legislators approved a ban on certain semi-automatic firearms and magazines, a measure that remains under legal challenge.
The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, is reportedly receiving significant attention from admirers during his incarceration at Huntingdon State Correctional Institute in Pennsylvania.
A violent encounter on Chicago’s West Side early Saturday morning left one person critically injured and involved a shootout between police and a gunman.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) is optimistic about the future of Second Amendment rights with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House. After years of battling anti-gun policies in Washington and state capitals, NRA CEO and Executive Vice President Doug Hamlin expressed excitement about working with Trump on several pro-gun initiatives. The NRA is eager to support Trump in pushing for national concealed carry reciprocity and reforms at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have detained a 20-year-old California man, Alexander Paffendorf, for allegedly conspiring with Madison, Wisconsin, school shooter Natalie "Samantha" Rpuinow.
Two Philadelphia correctional officers were arrested on Tuesday for their involvement in separate contraband smuggling operations at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF), according to an announcement by District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Task Force.
The holiday season in Philadelphia was disrupted by a devastating wave of gun violence over the weekend, with 11 separate shootings leaving 24 people injured, four of them fatally.
