This Week

Auto-Ordnance, the company behind today’s Thompson rifles and carbines, is teaming up with Outlaw Ordnance to bring us the Bonnie & Clyde Tommy gun.

Named after the military’s newest sidearm, M17 ammo is designed to military specifications in both ball and hollow point loads.

“In the ideal world, we shouldn’t need anyone on campus with a gun, but that’s not the world we live in today,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, a member of the commission, told the Sun-Sentinel. “One’s not enough. Two’s not enough. We need multiple people in order to protect the children.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this month their annual “Underlying Cause of Death” report, and the media has, predictably, zeroed in on data related to firearms.

“The NRA lobbyists are like cockroaches. Just when you think you’ve gotten rid of all of them, you shine a flashlight and there they are,” Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, the grassroots arm of Everytown for Gun Safety told NBC News.

A state lawmaker in California last week announced his plan to tax the sale of certain firearms and to use the revenue to fund community violence-prevention programs. Introduced as AB-18, the legislation would impose an “excise tax on the sales of handguns and semiautomatic rifles and would require the revenue collected from that tax to [...]

Gearing up for the new year Mossberg is adding four new guns to the company catalog including a new series of Retrograde shotguns.

The wife of a first-year law student at Tulane University shot and killed her husband earlier this week after she claims he tried to beat and strangle her. She told deputies that the abuse has been going on for years, and she has not been charged with a crime.

John Rich, one half of the country duo Big & Rich, responded over the weekend to two of his fellow musicians who have thrown their weight behind an effort to institute universal background checks on all gun purchases.