Guns

Efforts by states to to raise the minimum age for buying a long rifle have been challenged in court by gun rights activists.

President Biden has picked Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney in Ohio, to lead the agency as it cracks down on so-called "ghost guns," which are assembled from parts and lack serial numbers.

State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, was dismissive of Gavin Newsom’s effort to restrict gun rights by using Texas' legal strategy to ban many abortions. He said he didn’t think his enforcement mechanism would be “effective against firmly established constitutional rights.”

In the early months of the pandemic, more families with teenagers bought guns — increasing the potential risk that a teen could gain unsupervised access to a firearm.

The time long awaited by gun-rights advocates has come, as the conservative court examines how far a state may go in regulating an individual's right to carry a gun outside the home.

The actor fired the prop gun that killed a cinematographer during filming of the movie Rust, police said. On Friday, Baldwin expressed "shock and sadness" over the incident.

After several mass shootings in Texas, some Republican leaders — including Gov. Greg Abbott — pledged to try to prevent another incident from happening again. But stricter gun laws did not come out of the 2021 legislative session.

House Bill 1927 would eliminate the requirement for Texans to get a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun. Abbott has said he will sign it.

House Bill 1927 would nix the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun.

Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza's new policy instructs his prosecutors to ask judges to require high-risk offenders to surrender any weapons as a condition of their bond.