gun control

Legislators passed a bill that requires courts to report certain involuntary mental health hospitalizations to the federal gun background check system. Many other measures that could restrict firearm access got little traction.

The group called for changes to the state’s gun laws, like increasing the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic weapon, along with the implementation of so-called “red flag” laws.

In a letter sent Wednesday, Attorney General Ken Paxton's office said Citigroup's restrictions against gun retailers violates Texas law, and that the state won't OK bonds with Citigroup underwriting.

The Texas Politics Project recently asked voters about the issues most important to them. The top three were immigration, the state economy and abortion, all with double-digit support.

The question moving forward is whether Democrats, outnumbered in the Texas Legislature for two decades, will be able to put enough pressure on lawmakers to move on a previously intractable issue in gun-friendly Texas and that Republicans, who support looser gun laws, will fight tooth and nail.

The shooting in South Texas came just days before the NRA holds its annual meeting in Houston.

Backers of an approaching law allowing Oklahomans to carry a gun without training or a permit say they’re willing to test compliance with the law by...

The lawmaker behind a petition to stop permitless carry from taking effect November 1 says he’s optimistic about having enough signatures. State...

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, a Democrat representing Kansas’s 3rd District, and other state lawmakers said that they support the Second Amendment but...

In the aftermath of the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, public debate once again turned to what Congress should do to reduce gun violence.