Claims about gun rights laws in Minnesota circulated after Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti died at the hands of Border Patrol agents on Jan. 24, 2026.

Claims by Trump administration officials that the man fatally shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis lacked a right to possess a firearm and that his killing was justified are being dismissed by legal experts and assailed by gun rights groups ordinarily aligned with the president.

Hundreds of Mississippians die every year from gun-related deaths, including dozens of children who found unsecured guns.

In all of this country's mass shootings, the throughline is America’s virtually unfettered access to guns. KY fares worse than our national average.

Hawaii’s gun laws are the strictest in America. A landmark case could change that - Three Maui residents sued in 2023 to challenge new laws prohibiting the carrying of guns at places such as beaches,

Over the last three decades, carrying concealed guns in public in the United States has become easier and easier. First, in the 1990s, states began to guarantee permits to anyone who could legally own a firearm. Then, beginning in the mid-2000s, states ...

If the appeals court's reasoning against California's open-carry ban is applied to mainstream laws such as background checks and felon bans, they would have to be overturned too.

The court grappled with a Hawaii law restricting carrying concealed weapons onto private property, setting up a potential clash between gun and property rights.

An argument analysts were particularly watching was in drawing a distinction between free speech rights and gun rights on private property open to the public.

The US Supreme Court appeared likely on Tuesday to strike down a Hawaii law that bans the carrying of firearms on private property open to the public such as stores or restaurants. The Hawaii law requires a gun owner with a concealed carry permit to get the explicit permission of a private property owner before bringing a firearm into their establishment.

Supreme Court justices were stunned Tuesday when lawyers defending Hawaii’s so-called “vampire rule” — which restricts carrying guns on privately owned spaces without consent — pointed to racist laws in their defense of gun control.