May 7, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WASHINGTON Gun control forces are targeting Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Max Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive the rejected effort to expand background checks to more firearms buyers. Continue Reading
April 24, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Last Wednesday, keeping guns out of the hands of people like James Holmes, Jared Lee Loughner, Seung Hui Cho and Adam Lanza took a back seat to the political survival of a bunch of suits who cannot be moved by death, grief, the will of the people or even common sense.
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April 23, 2013 in The Daily Republic
PIERRE A Piedmont man accused of threatening U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson because the senator allegedly supports gun control has been taken into custody. Continue Reading
April 18, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., believes she did right by the majority of North Dakotans when she voted against extended background checks for gun buyers during a Senate vote Wednesday. Continue Reading
April 18, 2013 in The Daily Republic
SD’s Thune votes against expanded background checks; Johnson calls defeat ‘regrettable.’
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April 17, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WASHINGTON Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades Wednesday, rejecting tighter background checks for buyers and a ban on assault weapons as they spurned pleas from families of victims of last winter’s school massacre in Newtown, Conn. Continue Reading
April 17, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she could not support a measure to tighten restrictions on the sale of guns because it would have placed undue burdens on law-abiding people. Continue Reading
April 17, 2013 in The Daily Republic
SD’s Johnson calls situation ‘regrettable;’ Thune says he supports an alternative background check proposal. Continue Reading
April 16, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WASHINGTON – North Dakota’s senators are on different sides of the political aisle, but they do agree on one thing: The Senate’s gun control debate should focus more on dealing with the mentally ill and criminals than on expanding background checks to buy those weapons. Continue Reading
April 16, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Currently, background-check records must be destroyed within 24 hours, preventing that data from being used for other purposes. But the Reid bill and Toomey-Manchin make exceptions for private transfers, and the latter also eliminates standard privacy protections for mental-health records used in the background check system.
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