Senate Bill 56 passed the Ohio Senate 22-7 and will now head to Gov. Mike DeWine. The bill offers significant adjustments to ...

STATEWIDE — As of Thursday, all legal Florida gun owners will be allowed to carry their weapons openly. This comes a few weeks after a district court of appeals ruled Florida’s open carry ban was ...

Reginald Weeks-Lewis faces 15 years for illegal firearm possession after a guilty verdict in Columbus, as per the U.S.

Changes are on the horizon for recreational marijuana and hemp product users in Ohio as the state legislature approved Senate ...

As executions remain paused, Ohio lawmakers debate competing bills that would either repeal the death penalty or expand how ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Open carry, often known as constitutional carry, of a firearm went into effect Thursday across Florida. A ban on open carry was overturned by an appeals court earlier this month, paving ...

Some of gun culture's newest recruits are immigrants — from countries where weapons belonged only to criminals or the state.

The Second Amendment is one of America’s most popular parts of the Constitution. The right to bear arms is one that many Americans take seriously. In fact, nearly a third of U.S. citizens say they own ...

As of September 2025, Florida allows open carry and permitless carry, in addition to its stand your ground law. Joe Raedle/Getty Images News Caroline Light, Harvard University Twenty years ago, ...

An attendee at a gun-rights rally open carries his gun in a holster that reads "We the People" from the Preamble to the United States Constitution. This article is republished from The Conversation, ...

Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University I’m a historian who has studied the roots of stand your ground laws. I published a book on the subject in 2017. My ...

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first "stand your ground" law, calling it a "good, common-sense, anti-crime issue." The law's creators promised it would protect law-abiding citizens ...