The Cowlitz County commissioners Tuesday passed a resolution opposing the implementation of Initiative 1639 after hearing public comment for weeks against the measure. 

Arizona and 22 other states are asking the highest court in the nation to weigh in on gun rights after a New Jersey resident was denied a permit to carry a firearm outside of his home. 

What makes most individual constitutional rights fundamental is the unwillingness of the Supreme Court to allow those rights to be diminished by state and federal political actors. 

New York would ban teachers from carrying guns in school under a broad gun control package set to pass the Legislature on Tuesday. 

Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun club three years ago and learned to shoot. But he says Brazil’s tight carry laws that mean he can’t take his gun anywhere but to the club limit his ability to protect himself outside his home. 

Legislation allowing people to carry concealed handguns without a permit, sometimes called “Constitutional carry,” is headed to the South Dakota Senate floor for a vote. 

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree loosening the country’s restrictive gun regulations, a small advance on his signature campaign pledge to arm law-abiding citizens to combat rampant crime. 

The right and the left are set to collide Saturday at dueling protests at the state Capitol. 

Marijuana is now legal for medicinal use in more than 30 jurisdictions across the United States. Unfortunately, for the gun owners who participate in these legal programs, this means forfeiting the right to bear arms.