Democratic lawmakers on Monday advanced a sweeping slate of gun safety proposals — many of them previously vetoed by former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s veto pen — as they test whether Virginia’s new Democratic governor,

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Democrats in Virginia’s Senate are advancing gun control legislation through committees on party line votes, with more than half a dozen bills making their way through the General Assembly after clearing the Senate Courts of Justice Committee.

Claims by Trump administration officials that the man fatally shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis lacked a right to possess a firearm and that his killing was justified are being dismissed by legal experts and assailed by gun rights groups ordinarily aligned with the president.

A series of gun control bills are quickly making their way through the Virginia General Assembly.

A Virginia Senate committee approved several gun control measures Monday, marking the first legislative progress on these issues after years of vetoes by former Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Let’s robustly defend our principles — chief among them is the right to bear arms.

Anthony Albanese says government will not proceed with racial vilification provisions, which in current form ‘do not have the support of the Senate’

Supreme Court justices were stunned Tuesday when lawyers defending Hawaii’s so-called “vampire rule” — which restricts carrying guns on privately owned spaces without consent — pointed to racist laws in their defense of gun control.

Activists gathered at Capitol Square's Bell Tower Monday to lobby for gun rights, while others lobbied to prevent gun violence.

Even while law-enforcement officers hunted for the gunman who murdered two students and wounded nine others at Brown University in Rhode Island last week, gun restrictionists unleashed their typical unhinged rhetoric. Take the reliably partisan Sen.

Critics said the government had rushed the legislation, along with a bill targeting hate speech, in the wake of the mass shooting in Sydney.