With an unusual vehemence, a Chicago congressman whose district includes a big swath of relatively conservative areas is going all out in a campaign to curb the sale and use of guns. In a new taxpayer ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --With the Colorodo movie theater shooting massacre still fresh on the minds of the public and elected officials, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) was urging lawmakers on Tuesday to have ...

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Editor's note: Tommy Hanson is making his fourth bid for Congress. He ran and lost in 2008, 2018 and 2020. Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley and Republican challenger Tommy Hanson have dramatically ...

“Gun to the right. No gun to the left” was the greeting heard by attendees entering the cavernous hall in Crown Point, Ind., that hosted the Central Indiana Gun and Knife Show. The Industrial Arts ...

FILE - In this Thursday Sept. 15 photo, Columbus, Ohio, Police Chief Kim Jacobs displays a photo of the type of BB gun police say Tyre King pulled from his waistband before he was shot and killed by a ...

You might think that police automatically are notified when a convicted felon or domestic abuser—or someone who is not legally permitted to purchase a gun—tries to do so but is stopped. You'd be wrong ...

Did you let your kids play with toy guns when they were young? I did. I suppose I didn't know any better at the time and it seemed harmless, but I probably shouldn't have done it. Of course, those ...

There’s a congressional committee in Washington, D.C. that meets out of the public eye - in a room beneath the Capitol. It’s called the Emerging Threats Subcommittee, and it discusses trends in ...