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For the second time this year, an owl was caught in a leg-hold trap in Connecticut, renewing animal advocates’ cries to ban the traps.
Eli Ruble made huge and tragic mistakes last week. Knowing that won't bring back his friend Jay Derby, but the knowledge could save other lives this holiday season - and beyond.
SEATTLE — A Seattle man who took a gun into a Seattle community center to challenge the city's ban on guns in city parks filed a lawsuit Friday against the city and Mayor Greg Nickels.
Hunt turns deadly: According to the Associated Press, a north Mississippi woman was recently charged with murder, days after her husband was killed while the couple was deer hunting. Oktibbeha County Chief Deputy George Carrithers said Verina Marie Childes, 37, of Maben was arrested Nov. 25. She is being held in the county jail on a $125,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing. Carrithers said ...
A Seattle man who took a gun into a community center to challenge the city's ban on guns in city parks filed a lawsuit Friday...
In the Republican primary for Florida agriculture commissioner, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow seems like a natural.
Legislation allowing veterans classified as “mentally defective” to buy firearms is drawing sharp criticism from gun-control advocates, but proponents argue that it is not as risky as it may sound. Eighteen senators — including Sens. Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback of Kansas — have endorsed the measure.
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has proposed a 2010 ballot measure that would recommend to Colorado's top elected officials that they oppose gun restrictions.
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.