The handgun police say Luigi Mangione used to fatally shoot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is nearly as recognizable as the now-famous alleged shooter himself—and shows just how common and lethal these weapons have become. The community devoted to 3D-printed firearms quickly identified the suspected murder weapon as a particular model of printable ‘ghost gun‘—a homemade weapon with
Colorado Congresswoman/good-judgment poster girl Lauren Boebert (R-CO4) introduced a bill to abolish the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives last week. Boebert, long an agency critic, says the ATF stands in the way of Americans buying more guns, and that ‘gun free zones’ are the most dangerous places in the country. “We don’t
El Paso Matters After a suicide attempt in March 2020, Army Pvt. Richard Halliday of Fort Bliss (Texas) was committed to a psychiatric center for 72 hours and declared unfit to carry a weapon on duty. But he was able to legally purchase a 9mm handgun at an El Paso gun store. Soon after, and
The 2025 Colorado General Assembly began Jan. 8, and four bills related to the regulation of firearms were immediately introduced. SB25-003, Semiautomatic Firearms and Rapid Fire Devices, prohibits knowingly manufacturing, distributing, transferring, selling, or purchasing specified semiautomatic firearms. ‘A specified semiautomatic firearm’ is defined in the bill as “a semiautomatic rifle or semiautomatic shotgun with a detachable magazine
