Mayors Against Illegal Guns

Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators

2013-05-13 03:00:00

WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...

A Mexican father's plea to two presidents

2013-05-02 00:00:00

President Obama has much to discuss with Mexico's new president, Enrique Pe�a Nieto, when they meet in Mexico City this week. No issue, however, is more urgent than the search for peace, justice and dignity for and between our peoples. For seven years,...

NRA pledge on gun rights: 'We will never surrender'

2013-05-04 14:56:00

HOUSTON — Vowing that “we will never surrender,” the leader of the National Rifle Assn. claimed victory over recently defeated gun control legislation and denounced “political and media” elites for vilifying gun owners and...

Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat

2013-04-18 20:11:00

WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...

Cowardly Senate runs away from gun background checks

2013-04-18 05:00:00

Polls indicate that 80% to 90% of Americans support expanded background checks for firearms sales, but on Wednesday such a plan could not get 60 votes in the United States Senate. In the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by families of children gunned...

Senate rejects gun background check measure

2013-04-17 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...

Senate poised to debate gun control measure

2013-04-10 17:58:00

WASHINGTON — Gun control efforts in Congress cleared a significant hurdle Wednesday as the Senate prepared to open what could be a weeks-long debate, even as opponents plotted a shift in strategy aimed at undermining a comprehensive package of...

Arizona gun shop won't sell assault weapon to Mark Kelly

2013-03-26 10:26:00

A gun shop in Tucson, Ariz., has canceled an effort by retired astronaut Mark Kelly, an outspoken gun-control advocate, to buy a semiautomatic rifle as a way of demonstrating how easy it is to buy powerful weapons. Kelly, the husband of former Rep....

Biden, Bloomberg lean on Congress to act on guns

2013-03-21 10:27:00

Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate slowing momentum for gun control legislation, urged Congress on Thursday to be courageous in supporting new laws and insisted that the political risks of supporting such laws were overblown. Biden...

Database catalogs movie firearms

2013-02-02 07:00:00

This sturdy Austrian had supporting roles in the recent action movies "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty," the TV western "Justified" and the military video game "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." The ubiquitous performer — actually a semiautomatic pistol...

Coats defends his vote on guns

2013-05-20 07:50:00

Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....

Reynolds runs for Bethlehem mayor

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Years before he became Bethlehem's youngest city councilman, J. William Reynolds found his inspiration in music. A Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan fan, Reynolds first learned to play the clarinet, and then picked up the guitar at Moravian College,...

Easton Mayor Sal Panto speaks in the city's part of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns rally held in Center Square on Thursday.

2013-03-28 00:00:00