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A Seattle attorney who carried a gun into a Seattle community center in order to challenge the city's ban on guns in city parks filed a federal lawsuit today against the city and Mayor Greg Nickels.
As the annual gun deer season continues, Northeastern Wisconsin hunters are finding that some types of ammunition are in short supply.
As Seattle readies to defend in court its ban on guns at city parks, Snohomish County might move in the opposite direction. If a new law passes, you could feel free to tote a legally owned firearm into county parks. Just don’t shoot it, unless it’s in self-defense.
CROSBYTON — State Rep. Joe Heflin has joined a bipartisan group of state legislators and elected officials from all 50 states in signing an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court” brief supporting the National Rifle Association’s position that individual protections of the Second Amendment are incorporated to apply to the states through the 14th Amendment.
Two fledgling political action committees that support allowing some illegal immigrants to become citizens are raising more money than their immigration-control counterparts, signaling a possible fundraising shift ahead of next year's congressional races.
MIAMI -- Two fledgling political action committees that support allowing some illegal immigrants to become citizens are raising more money than their immigration-control counterparts, signaling a possible fundraising shift ahead of next year's congre ...
Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, at one time a darling Democrat of the National Rifle Association, may be further distancing herself from her pro-gun past with a new bill aiming to eliminate the flow of illegal guns into New York.
Sarah Palin must have thought she was back on the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain's "handlers" when she reached the Fort Bragg Post Exchange Monday. News accounts report that the former vice-presidential candidate's "to do" list was shorter than her "do not do" list. She could not make a speech, write personal notes, pose for photographs or sign anything other than autographing her book.
Three people declare their candidacy in the races for House Districts 92, 93 and 96.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and her former ardent foe, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), announced they were teaming up to sponsor legislation to combat gun trafficking.
A senior Senate staffer who has worked all year on the health system overhaul was asked to sum up that rare weekend session that brought the bill to the brink of formal consideration on the Senate floor. "One more night it didn't die," he said. And...
"These Judges deserve to be killed," declared Harold "Hal" Turner on his Web site in June, attacking three 7th Circuit judges who had upheld Chicago-area bans on handguns. On Dec. 1, Turner is due to go to trial in a federal case that will turn on whether his Web postings are protected as an exercise of free speech or constitute a "true threat" that posed imminent danger to the targets. Also ...
In a post-election confession session Monday night at a Belltown bar, the chief strategists from Joe Mallahan's failed mayoral campaign portrayed their candidate as overly altruistic and so unable to stay on message that they hid him from the public.
It may come as a surprise to many of his Democratic supporters, but Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful Jerry Brown has gone to bat for the National Rifle Association. The NRA's cause: urging the U.S. Supreme Court to guarantee the ability of gun...
The government of the United States was well balanced when President Reagan took office in 1981. The unions were strong enough to represent the common ...
In the Republican primary for Florida agriculture commissioner, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow seems like a natural.But state Sen. Carey Baker of Eustis intends to put up a fight against Putnam in the primary. Claiming the role of the true conservative in the race, he hopes to turn the race into the kind of ideological battle that's becoming common in the Republican Party.