Mothers, Sheriffs And Doctors Call On Lawmakers To Keep Permits For Handguns
One morning this month, Kaaren Haldeman, an anthropologist in Durham, sent her three sons to school and drove to downtown Raleigh. There, down the hallways of the North Carolina General Assembly...
View ArticleLawmakers Feel Heat On Bill Eliminating Handgun Permit Requirement
Lawmakers could debate a plan to loosen North Carolina's gun regulations as early as Thursday. The Republican majority has struggled to reach a consensus for weeks on the bill called the Second...
View ArticleWith Republican Majority Split, NC House Waters Down Guns Bill
The North Carolina House of Representatives voted Tuesday afternoon to remove the most controversial portions of a bill that would have allowed some people to buy handguns without a permit. It would...
View ArticleCriminals Use Social Connections To Access Guns
Advocates for gun control propose stricter enforcement of background checks as a means to reduce gun-related crime. A new study shows criminals are more likely to acquire guns from family members and...
View ArticleChapel Hill Mayor Calls For More Local Control Over Gun Regulations After...
After the fatal shooting of a Chapel Hill toddler, Mayor Pam Hemminger says she wants local governments to be able to pass their own gun ordinances. Hemminger says state legislators should reverse a...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Executive Action And The Gun Debate
President Obama issued an executive action this week designed to curb gun violence. The president said this country's routine mass shootings compelled him to act. Republican members of Congress swiftly...
View ArticleRally Planned In Raleigh To Demand Gun Legislation
A group plans to demand common sense gun legislation at the Raleigh office of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis on Tuesday morning. The rally comes less than a week after a mass shooting at a high school in...
View ArticleKids March To Capitol To Demand Gun Control From Raleigh
Thousands marched in Raleigh Wednesday night to remember the people killed in the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Students took center stage as they called for North Carolina elected officials to...
View ArticleTrump And Lawmakers On Guns, Annotated
President Trump hosted lawmakers from both parties to discuss gun policy and school safety on Wednesday. During the freewheeling meeting, Trump appeared to support a number of conflicting measures. NPR...
View ArticleThe Political Junkie: Businesses Take The Lead On Gun Control, Chaos In The...
Two of the nation’s largest gun sellers announced they will take steps to curb firearm sales . Dick’s Sporting Goods says it will stop selling assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines, and...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Teachers Don’t Want To Carry Guns, And Churches Don’t Want To...
Since the Valentine’s Day shooting at a Florida high school, President Donald Trump says teachers should be armed. Last week North Carolina State Superintendent Mark Johnson polled teachers around the...
View ArticleNRA Grants Millions To Charities and Schools. An NC Charity Got The Most.
The National Rifle Association gave more grant funding to a Concord-based charity than any other school or charity in the nation – by a wide margin. Speedway Children's Charities received $425,000 from...
View ArticleStudents Plan Walkouts Against Gun Violence. Some NC Schools Respond With...
Many North Carolina students will join fellow students across the country in walking out of classes Wednesday. The day marks one month after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida....
View ArticleThe Fight For School Safety: Students Rebel
Since the mass school shooting in Columbine, America has seemed almost powerless against rogue gunmen attacking defenseless suburban schools. After the tragic killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School...
View ArticleNC Students To Join Fight 'For Their Lives'
This Saturday, students across North Carolina will join their peers from around the nation, yet again, to call for safer schools.
View ArticleNorth Carolina Students, Allies March For Gun Control Laws
High school students and allies seeking stronger gun control laws in North Carolina following last month's Florida school shooting are walking through downtown Raleigh in solidarity with a similar...
View ArticleA Small Town Feels The Impact Of Remington’s Bankruptcy
One of the oldest gun manufacturers in the country has filed for bankruptcy . Remington Outdoor Company, based in Madison, North Carolina, has racked up nearly a billion dollars of debt and faced...
View ArticleHundreds of Students Walk Out, Say They Won't Stop Calling For Gun Control
About 200 students from several Chapel Hill area schools marched together up a hill, and nearly five miles across their town behind an orange banner that said "Enough."
View ArticleNC Dems, Gun-Control Advocates Back New Protection Orders
Creating a legal method to compel someone to temporarily surrender their guns if they're a danger to themselves or others is a common-sense way to prevent mass shootings and suicides, North Carolina...
View ArticleGov. Cooper: Republican $35M School Safety Plan Not Enough
Republicans at the General Assembly say the school safety funding package in the upcoming state budget is a good first step that will address critical needs, but Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper thinks it...
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