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  • Annie's already got her gun

    As a big gunmaker prepares for a public offering, signs emerge suggesting the frenzy to stock up on ammo is abating
  • Will Supreme Court overturn state, local gun bans?

    The Supreme Court takes a case on a hot-button issue: Whether the 2nd Amendment applies to the states
  • They're coming to take our guns away

    Cop killer Richard Poplawski is an extremist. But amid the deafening din of the right wing's anti-government rhetoric, how extreme is he?
  • Supreme Court gun ruling could backfire

    John McCain used the high court's decision to blast away at Barack Obama -- but it could make Obama's campaign more bulletproof.
  • GOP senator wants guns allowed on Amtrak

    On gun control, Democrats' long retreat means fight on home turf.
  • Pelosi doesn't want to restore assault weapons ban

    The Obama administration wants to bring the law back, but the House speaker nixed the idea, and it'd be hard to get Democrats on board anyway.
  • Supreme Court strikes down D.C. gun ban

    The court's decision, the first it has made on the Second Amendment since 1939, says that the amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
  • What you missed while watching "Chad Vader"

    Ron Paul's conspiracy theories! Fred Thompson's secret guns! Mitt Romney's rapid-fire "word of God"! And what Jesus would do.
  • Killer reflection

    Cho and other Asian shooters were portrayed as "smart but quiet" and "fundamentally foreign." What do these stereotypes reveal, and what do they obscure?
  • Repeal the Second Amendment

    The best way to reduce the odds of another blood bath like the one at Virginia Tech is to amend the Constitution and abolish the right to bear arms.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    How the trivial world of sports matters, even in the wake of a tragedy like the Virginia Tech massacre.
  • Gun control or "hopes and prayers"?

    Bush heads for Virginia Tech; McCain says we "have to keep guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens."
  • I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?

    Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted.
  • Life of the Party

    Brian Schweitzer, the blue governor of the red state of Montana, may just have the answer to the Democrats' woes.
  • Trophy hunting by remote control

    Interested in picking off a wild boar or gazelle from the comfort of your own home office?
  • Shielding Murder Inc.

    Bush's support of the latest immoral gun bill shows once again just how willing he is to do the bidding of the NRA -- even if it means sabotaging homeland security.
  • Guns, lies and the Internet in South Carolina

    Field & Stream's Web site was associated with a voter's guide accusing a Democratic Senate candidate of being anti-gun. One problem: He's a member of the NRA.
  • Domestic violence

    The media is fixating on John Allen Muhammad's Muslim beliefs. But the most relevant fact about him could be his record of terrorizing his family members -- and how that didn't stop him from getting his hands on guns.
  • Will the NRA once again shoot down common-sense legislation?

    In the wake of the sniper attacks around Washington, the gun lobby remains unmoved by the case for ballistic fingerprinting.
  • The other battle to defend America

    While we're busy singing "America the Beautiful," the oil industry and other greedy pillagers are trying to pick our pockets and despoil our purple mountain majesties.
  • Making sense of the shooting at Santana High

    Readers respond to Salon's coverage of the latest high school tragedy.
  • Deadly ambivalence

    Schools need to teach our kids how much they matter. If they don't, we will see Santana and Columbine copycat shootings again and again.
  • Is there anything left to say?

    Guns, neglect, bullying, the role of race: If you feel like you've heard this all before, it's because you have.
  • Round 2: Ashcroft wins over a Democrat

    Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein.
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