Roque Planas

politics / 4 days ago
State Lawmakers Have A New Strategy For Gun Reform
A group of state legislators, local politicians and nonprofits on Tuesday launched a national coalit...
politics / 4 days ago
Suspect In Apparent Attempt To Shoot Trump Wasn't Allowed To Have Guns. He Got An Assault Rifle Anyway.
The man accused of stalking Donald Trump from behind the bushes at the edge of one of the former pre...
politics / 1 month ago
SCOTUS Looks Unlikely To Consider Assault Weapons — For Now
When Justice Clarence Thomas penned a sweeping reinterpretation of the Second Amendment two years ag...
politics / 1 month ago
How Tim Walz Went From A Lifelong Firearm Enthusiast To Leading The Gun Reform Charge
Twenty minutes into his state of the state address last April, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz turned to the...
politics / 2 months ago
Supreme Court Ruling Threatens To Kill Biden Gun Reforms
The Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the long-standing “Chevron doctrine” on Friday dealt a major ...
politics / 3 months ago
Supreme Court Upholds Law That Keeps Guns Away From Domestic Abusers
The federal government can continue to limit domestic abusers’ gun rights, according to a landmark r...
politics / 3 months ago
Supreme Court Overturns Ban On Gun-Enhancing Bump Stock Devices
The Supreme Court Friday overturned a federal agency’s rule banning bump stocks, the devices used in...
politics / 4 months ago
It's Easier Than You'd Think To Buy A Machine Gun
Illustration: Benjamin Currie/HuffPostIn a video clip uploaded three months ago, one of YouTube’s mo...
politics / 4 months ago
Congress Members Demand Answers About Slurs, Bigotry From Border Patrol Agents
Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) are demanding an update on the Department of...
politics / 4 months ago
Donald Trump, Who Is Banned From Buying Firearms, To Address NRA
Former President Donald Trump will address the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association in D...
politics / 4 months ago
New York Proposes Crackdown On Major Gun Company
New York may become the first state to bar gun companies from selling pistols that can easily be con...
politics / 6 months ago
The Arizona Murder Case Behind A Republican-Backed Gun Law
When George Alan Kelly saw a group of camouflaged men traveling across his 170-acre ranch on Jan. 30...
politics / 6 months ago
Veterans Deemed ‘Mentally Incompetent’ Will Gain Gun Rights Under New Funding Bill
A must-pass government funding package will expand gun rights for an unlikely group: veterans deemed...
politics / 6 months ago
Arizona Republicans Push Law That Critics Say Legalizes Murder
Arizona Republicans are rallying behind a proposed law that critics say would amount to legalizing m...
politics / 6 months ago
Supreme Court May Torch Another Major Gun Reform
When former President Donald Trump banned the gun components known as “bump stocks” in 2018, followi...
politics / 6 months ago
The U.S. Supreme Court Is About To Hear Its Next Big Gun Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that promises to settle the ques...