President Joe Biden on Friday praised a gun safety legislation that he signed into law last year, stating that it has prevented firearms from falling into the wrong hands and helped save lives. Speaking at a gun safety summit in West Hartford, Connecticut, the president promised to take more actions, including banning assault weapons, ending…

A California bill that would add another 11 percent in state taxes to firearms and ammunition sold in the state passed its first hurdle in the Legislature April 11. The Assembly’s Public Safety Committee voted in favor of Assembly Bill 28, introduced by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills), despite opposition from several state law enforcement…

Kerri Raissian didn’t know what to do about her father’s guns when he died of COVID-19 in December 2021 at age 86 and left her executor of his estate. Her father, Max McGaughey, hadn’t left a complete list of his firearms and where they were stored, and he hadn’t prepared a realistic plan for responsibly…

By Martha Ross From The Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif.—Angelina Jolie and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have plenty of experience performing scenes with real guns and dummy bullets on the sets of their big-budget action films, but both are reconsidering in the wake of the Oct. 21 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. In interviews…