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    Hours after the National Rifle Association conference, more than 50 celebrities launched a public service announcement, “Demand a Plan to End Gun Violence.” A wide swath of big name entertainers such as the cast members of “Parks & Recreation,” Will Ferrell, Chris Rock, Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Julianne Moore, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeremy Renner, John Hamm and Gwyneth Paltrow recorded the message. It advocates the immediate need for laws providing stricter gun control. The campaign of 750 …

In a tone-deaf response to the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday that left 26 dead, including 20 children, the National Rifle Association this morning blamed “gun-free” zones for the massacre and called for an armed police officer in every school. The statements were stunning in their lack of recognition that public opinion is turning against the easy access to firearms, including deadly assault weapons. The U.S. already has the most lax gun laws in the …

After last week’s horrific massacre in Newtown, Connecticut that left 26 people dead including 20 elementary school children, calls for new gun control laws have echoed across the nation. An official petition calling for immediate legislative action to restrict gun access set a record for the most popular ever posted through the White House portal, after five days clocking in at 190,000 signatures and counting. According to a CBS news poll, 57 percent of Americans support tighter gun laws, up …

– Aaron Kase and Larry Bodine also contributed to this story. A New York federal appeals court on Nov. 27 shot down an effort to establish a fundamental right to carry handguns in public, and upheld the state’s handgun licensing law.  Five residents of Westchester, N.Y., and a gun lobby lost their case, which tried to expand Second Amendment handgun rights. Gun industry lobbies like the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation have been suing states and cities …

You can vote at 18 and drink at 21. Now you can add purchasing handguns to the list: a federal appeals court upheld a federal law on Oct. 25 forbidding handgun sales by federally licensed dealers to people under the age of 21. The National Rifle Association and several young adults had sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), claiming the law violated their Second Amendment rights to bear arms. But a federal district court in Texas …