WASHINGTON — The House approved a “red flag” bill Thursday that would allow families, police and others to ask federal courts to order the removal of firearms from people at extreme risk of harming themselves or others. It’s the Democratic-controlled chamber’s latest response to ...

Every North Country lawmaker, including the region’s lone Democrat, voted against raising the age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle in New York from 18 to 21. The legislation, along with nine other gun control bills, was signed into law this week. Semi-automatic rifles have become ...

WASHINGTON — The House is swiftly working to put its stamp on gun legislation in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York by 18-year-old assailants who used semi-automatic rifles to kill 31 people, including 19 children. Partisan positions were clear at a Judiciary Committee ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The gunmen in two of the nation’s most recent mass shootings legally bought the semi-automatic rifles they used in their massacres after they turned 18. That’s prompting Congress and some governors and state lawmakers to revisit the question of whether to raise the ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Monday that the “Second Amendment was never absolute” and that, after the Texas elementary school shooting, there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman. “I think things have ...

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake village Trustee Rich Shapiro could be censured by the village board after verbal and physical confrontations he’s been involved with in the past week — both of which were steeped in years of conflicts and disagreements between Shapiro and the people he clashed ...