Guns

 The U.S. Justice Department has backed Special Counsel Robert Mueller over a lawsuit filed against him by Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, and argued that the case should be dismissed.

Pro-gun lobbyist Richard Rogers said this week that parents should be allowed to bring loaded firearms to school because it is too dangerous to unload and secure them before picking up children.

Private gun-sellers who work the gun show circuit are lamenting the election of President Donald Trump as sales have plummeted now that President Barack Obama is no longer in office.

Five people were killed and one was wounded after a gunman opened fire at a western Pennsylvania car wash early on Sunday, state police said. The attacker was believed to be among the dead.

The FBI has taken over an investigation of banners that were hung at a Indiana church that threatens another Vegas-like attack on what they believe will be a Jackson Browne concert on Tuesday.

The Republican legislator who chairs the Iowa House Judiciary Committee was arrested early Friday in Ames and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and possession of a firearm while under the influence, the Des Moines Register reports.

The Connecticut State Police are set to release a report on Friday analyzing their response to the 2012 Sandy Hook gun massacre of 26 young children and educators at Newtown elementary school, the Hartford Courant reported.

An Arkansas gun range owner who declared her facility a "Muslim-free zone" has thrown her hat in the ring to be the Republican nominee for governor in the 2018 election.

A police union representing cops in Chicago is fighting new use of force policies that would ban officers from using Tasers on fleeing suspects or when the use of the device might cause injury to the suspect.

A Reston, VA couple are dead and their daughter's boyfriend is in critical condition after the teenager shot them both and then himself because they refused to let their daughter date a neo-Nazi.

Police in Chicago said on Thursday they have arrested 50 people suspected of using "secret groups" on Facebook to deal in guns and drugs, and have teamed up with the world's largest social media network to crack down on criminal trafficking online.

CNN host Jake Tapper took a break from tweeting about news and politics on Thursday and instead dedicated his Twitter feed to the deaths of 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.