Business has been booming for Ziyad “Zip” Showket, a firearms instructor in liberal Marin County — thanks to six justices on the nation’s highest court. For two decades across four Bay Area counties, Showket has been schooling retired law enforcement officers, mall cops, and the rare civilian allowed under local...
Walters: California Gun Laws Headed for Legal Showdown
California governors, legislators and voters have been imposing additional restrictions on guns and ammunition, one atop another, for more than a half-century on the theory that they save lives. California now has the nation’s most restrictive gun laws but gun owners contend that they violate the U.S. Constitution’s “right to...
Biden Making New Moves on Guns, Including Naming ATF Boss
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, in his first major gun control measures since taking office, is announcing executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing what the White House calls a “gun violence public health epidemic." Biden also is nominating David Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control...
Trump Campaigns as a 2nd Amendment Warrior
WASHINGTON — After the Parkland school shooting in Florida two years ago, President Donald Trump chided Republican lawmakers for being too “scared” of the National Rifle Association to tighten gun laws — then backed away from the idea. After back-to-back mass shootings in Ohio and Texas in 2019, Trump embraced calls for “strong...
Eminem Drops Surprise Album, Advocates Changes to Gun Laws
Rapper Eminem once again dropped a surprise album, releasing “Music to Be Murdered By” on Friday — along with a video that calls for changes to gun laws. The follow-up to 2018's “Kamikaze” — also released without warning — was announced on Twitter just after midnight. The Detroit rapper's new music video for “Darkness,”...
Armed Congregants Kill Gunman Who Shot 2 at Texas Church
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A gunman who killed two people during a Texas church service was fatally shot within seconds by armed congregants, said state officials, who hailed the state's gun laws that allow weapons in places of worship. More than 240 people were in the West Freeway Church of...
Gun Control Risks Losing Momentum as Impeachment Fever Rises
LAS VEGAS — After mass shootings in Ohio and Texas this summer, gun control burst back on the scene as a major political issue for Democrats. Now it risks taking a back seat as impeachment fever overtakes Washington. Gun control advocates are determined to prevent that from happening. Nine White...
California Ammo Check Law Blocked 100 Sales in First Month
SACRAMENTO — California's new ammunition background check law in its first month stopped more than 100 people from buying bullets illegally, officials said late Monday as they struggled to deter more of the mass shootings that have roiled California and other states over the last week. "Countless other prohibited persons...
Tiny California City Vows to Offer Sanctuary to Gun Rights
California has some of the strongest gun-control laws in the nation. One little city in the Golden State has decided to swim against the current. Needles is a former railroad town located just across the Colorado River from Arizona and about 40 minutes from Laughlin, Nevada. The leaders of this...
New Zealand's New Gun Laws Get Final Assent to Take Effect
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand's governor general on Thursday formally signed into effect sweeping gun laws outlawing military style weapons, less than a month after a man used such guns to kill 50 people and wound dozens at two mosques in Christchurch. Governor General Patsy Reddy signed the bill...