FBI data shows background checks blocked nearly twice as many gun sales in 2020 as in the year before.

A new attack ad accuses the congresswoman, who has been an outspoken proponent for gun control since her son was gunned down at the age of 17, of being a ‘single-issue partisan hack.’

A new poll found that two-thirds of Americans support stricter gun control legislation.

President Joe Biden has faced increasing pressure to act after a recent series of mass shootings.

‘The real goal in all of this is to show people there is something you can do. You’re not entirely powerless,’ community activist Caden McGhie said.

In the wake of two mass shootings, the vice president is calling on Congress to act on gun control.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said that the filibuster has a ‘death grip on American democracy.’

House Democrats are proposing basic background checks for gun purchases — which even most Republican voters support.

‘What is likely to happen if gun laws are not followed is people get killed as a result,’ said a senior counsel with the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Policy that impacts Americans’ lives is being introduced out of the spotlight of the national media.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) doesn’t seem to understand how the Constitution works.

QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has already found six co-sponsors for her bill to upend all gun safety regulation.

Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and Ron Johnson have shown little interest in one measure that has been demonstrated to reduce the number of mass shootings: gun law reform.

In the eight years since the massacre, Republicans have refused to pass legislation to prevent mass shootings from being committed again and again.

Lawmakers are allowed to carry firearms in the Capitol; the public is not.

Mitch McConnell has blocked a bill strengthening background checks for nearly two full years.

Americans have lost more jobs since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than during the entire Great Recession.

He has ‘stopped’ nothing.

McConnell has blocked everything from legislation to help unemployed workers to a bipartisan background check bill for gun sales.

Despite pledging action following several mass shootings in 2019, Trump has yet to follow through on any sort of meaningful gun reform.

He has broken his promises on background checks and red-flag laws.

Across the country, anger over social distancing has turned into gun violence when people are carrying weapons.

‘It’s very sad that the Grim Reaper has decided more people will die,’ Nancy Pelosi said of McConnell’s inaction on the House’s background check bill.

At Tuesday’s Democratic debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren explained why gun violence legislation will be impossible unless the Senate switches to majority rule.

The FBI arrested members of a white supremacist group last week and charged them with transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony.

Gov. Ralph Northam banned guns from state Capitol grounds to try and prevent the kind of violence seen at the Charlottesville protests in 2017.

‘Nice day at the range,’ Trump’s eldest son wrote in the caption.

Trump also figured in the second and third biggest stories of the year: his family separation policy and the investigation by former special counsel Robert Mueller.

Siblings of victims of the Newtown shooting, as well as survivors of the tragedy, are stepping up their gun control activism as they grow up.

Republican Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins is facing backlash after he said he would grant thousands of citizens law enforcement authority.