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In Blow to NRA, Federal Judge Dismisses Group's Bankruptcy Case

"The NRA's bankruptcy was deemed to be bad faith, much like every promise and statement the organization has made for decades," said one group working to end gun violence. "The NRA cannot escape justice." 
Kenny Stancil, staff writer ·
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference announcing a lawsuit to dissolve the NRA on August 6, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (2nd L), Democrat of Massachusetts, speaks alongside fellow members of Congress and Supreme Court advocates as they introduce a bill in Congress to expand the number of seats on the court from nine to 13, in Washington, D.C., April 15, 2021. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

As SCOTUS Takes Up NRA-Backed Gun Case, Calls Grow for Dems to 'Expand the Court'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

A display of guns for sale is seen at Coliseum Gun Traders Ltd. in Uniondale, New York on September 25, 2020. (Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

The GOP Has Blood on Their Hands

Thom Hartmann ·

Three handguns and three long guns. (Photo by: David Underwood/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Boulder: Is it Time to End the Second Amendment?

Thom Hartmann ·

The NRA has long been the focus of anger and ire from gun control advocates who say the lobby group has blood on its hands for the pandemic of gun violence that has gripped the U.S. for decades. (Photo: Elvert Barnes/flickr/cc)

'Thoughts and Prayers to the NRA': Reviled Gun Lobby Group Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Jon Queally, staff writer ·

Drugs, Guns, and Despair: How America Is Killing Americans

The free market economy has pushed the American population to the brink.

Larry Beinhart ·

The only hope for sensible gun regulation is to challenge the corruption represented by the NRA by nonviolent demonstrations and action, enlisting the overwhelming majority of Americans in a movement for change. (Photo: ©supattra ngorkcharoen/Dreamstime.com)

Can America Break Its Gun Addiction?

Other nations savaged by civil war or outside invasion may suffer greater casualties in a conflict, but we have made violence—and victims of violence—routine.

Jesse Jackson ·

Cowardly Democratic Senator Coons Attacks Beto for Standing Up to NRA

O'Rourke: "But the time for letting status quo politics determine how far we can go is over. If we agree that having millions of weapons of war on the streets is a bad idea, we have to do something about it. "

Common Dreams staff ·

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'Why I Love San Francisco': City Board Applauded for Labeling NRA 'Domestic Terrorist Organization'

The resolution's author says that "nobody has done more to fan the flames of gun violence than the NRA."

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

Police cars and tape block off a crime scene

'Carnage That Could Have Been Prevented': West Texas Mass Shooting Provokes Fresh Calls for Stricter Gun Laws

"We've already lost far too many to gun violence—Congress must act now."

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

A student carried a sign at the March for Our Lives

The NRA Versus American Children

Children and teens in the United States experience much higher rates of gun deaths and injuries than in any other industrialized country

César Chelala ·

School teachers and administrators fire their guns during the FASTER Level 2 two day firearms course at Flatrock Training Center in Commerce City, Colorado on August 10, 2019. (Photo: Jason Connolly / AFP)

Of Course Guns Have Nothing To Do With It. Nothing.

The United States of American is really only exceptional in one undeniable regard: We have 300 million guns.

Pierre Tristam ·

Ohio State. Rep. Candice Keller blamed recent mass shootings on gay marriage and drag queens, among other things. (Photo: Ohio House of Representatives)

Republicans, Either Cowed or Clueless, Are Useless After a Mass Shooting

Everything except the gun, everything except the fact that this is a country where the angry and disaffected can buy weapons of mass destruction more easily and with less regulation than you could buy a car.

Leonard Pitts Jr. ·

Nearly 40,000 Americans who died of gun-related injuries in 2017 represent a 19 percent increase from 2012 and the highest annual total since the mid-1990s. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The U.S. Culture of Violence is Killing Us All

The U.S. has the most guns per capita and the weakest gun control laws of any developed country.

César Chelala ·

People console each other as they gather for a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting that occurred over night, at the Levitt Pavilion on August 4, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio. In the second mass shooting in the U.S. within 24 hours a gunman left nine dead and another 27 wounded after only a minute of shooting. (Photo: Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)

In Response to El Paso and Dayton, Thoughts And Prayers Are Not Enough

It will take more than a shrug and a smile to keep white nationalists with unlimited access to firearms from taking more lives

Tim Wilkins ·