open carry

The effects of the 1991 mass shooting at a Luby's in Killeen can still be felt today—in the legislature and on our streets.

Chris Waltz was appalled. He felt Democrats were using the Sandy Hook tragedy to tell him he wasn’t responsible enough to own an AR-15.

Early in our history, firearms laws were everywhere.

Regulations limiting armed travel in public, particularly in populous areas, stretch back over seven centuries.

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.

The idea of an unfettered right to carry weapons in public originates in the antebellum South, and its culture of violence and honor.

The AR-15 thrives in times of tension and tragedy. This is how it came to dominate the marketplace – and loom so large in the American psyche.

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.