Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake wrote to the mother of a man killed in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, saying that "strengthening background checks is something we agree on." Then he voted against the bill last week. Read More

Immigration reform seems to be the only item on President Obama's second-term agenda that seems to stand a chance in a divided Congress. Read More

All 20 women senators were slated to join President Obama for dinner at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday, after New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand suggested inviting the president to one of the group's quarterly meetings. Read More

NBC News has confirmed that the Tsarnaev brothers did not have gun permits or petitions to carry weapons. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is underage to carry a firearm under Massachusetts law Read More

Twenty children were killed at their school in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012. The massacre made headlines. But gun violence kills children every day. Read More

A new ad in favor of gun control is using a surprising historical perspective to reframe the issue of massacre control. Read More

The 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction, and the White House says he will not be tried as an enemy combatant. Read More

You know it's a bad week when an Elvis impersonator tries to kill the president and it doesn't even make the top three headlines. Read More

Ah-Kee Flonnory liked to take apart his bikes and restore them. And he was an unusually devoted brother. Read More

The longtime NRA defender said the group now cares more about representing gun and ammunition manufacturers than gun owners. Read More

A Minnesota radio host said Newtown families had no right to infringe on his right to bear arms. Reminded that they are suffering, he said, "I don't care." Read More

Why we need more courage in Congress. Read More

Sen. Joe Manchin said Thursday if the National Rifle Association hadn’t interfered by telling lawmakers their votes on background checks would be factored into its grading system, the bill would have passed. Read More

Gun-rights activists favored a bill that would have allowed gun owners to carry concealed firearms across state lines. It failed in the Senate, even as senators also failed to pass a bipartisan bill that expanded background checks. Read More

“We’ll be holding accountable Democrats who voted against their constituents by running ads in their states, featuring some 23,000 gun owners who have joined our campaign for common sense gun reform,” said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. Read More

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign, told Jansing & Co. polls that show roughly 90% of Americans who say they support expanded background checks have reason to be encouraged. Read More

Time magazine unveils its annual list of the 100 most influential people in world, including Wayne LaPierre and Sens. Rand Paul and Tom Coburn, who both voted against the Manchin-Toomey amendment. Do guns buy you influence? Read More

Republicans used “lies” and “hogwash” – in the words of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia — to defeat expanded background checks. The way they celebrated is part of the story. Read More

“We had a good piece of legislation that would have saved lives–it will save lives,” Sen. Joe Manchin said on the failed gun control bill. "We’re going to pass this. Don’t you give up." Read More

Carlee Soto, the sister of teacher Victoria Soto who died in December's school shooting, said she will "keep fighting...until change is made." Read More