Gun rights advocates challenged the law, arguing it infringes on their Second Amendment rights and that a previous Supreme Court ruling—which says any gun restrictions must be in line with historical tradition and how firearms were regulated during the U.S.’ founding—should nullify Hawaii’s law.

As the Supreme Court debated the constitutionality Tuesday of a Hawaii law that restricts people from carrying guns in some public places, the subject turned again and again to race — specifically, laws passed just after the Civil War aimed at preventing newly freed Black Americans from possessing firearms.

Black Codes, enacted after the Civil War to restrict newly freed African Americans, took center stage at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as it considered a challenge to a Hawaii gun law. With

Edwards said 2025 appears to have seen violent crime decline at record levels across the country. He suggested it could go down as the year with the largest one-year decline in the national homicide rate, and he floated the idea that the homicide rate could be the lowest in 50 or 60 years.

A number of post-Christmas incidents involving reported gun threats might become an effective tool — even though some of the reports were false — in illustrating to legislators the growing fear of guns in a society that has yet to figure out how to ...

The invocation appears like a litany after every mass shooting — and the backlash is just as inevitable. As if the slaughter of children amid screams and shattered stained glass wasn’t cause enough for grief, American opinion makers were convulsed once ...

If you oppose "common-sense gun safety legislation," politicians and activists who favor new restrictions on firearms often suggest, you have blood on your hands. Both Jay Jones, the Democratic candidate for Virginia attorney general, and Joshua Bregy, the ...