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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia lawmakers have voted to ban firearms at the state Capitol, the first in what’s expected to be many contentious gun votes in coming weeks. Newly empowered Democrats in the General Assembly voted Friday to ban guns at the Capitol and a legislative office building, saying the move was needed to protect public safety.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of an unarmed man fatally shot by police in suburban Los Angeles called for a federal civil rights investigation into the police department involved Wednesday, saying newly released video of the shooting raises significant questions. Newly released videos of the shooting show Diaz-Zeferino with his palms open at waist level when officers shoot him eight times. A second man who had his hands up, Eutiquio Acevedo-Mendez, survived a gunshot wound to the back.

School administrators and Will County sheriff's police are scratching their heads over the discovery of a shell casing today at Hadley Middle School in south suburban Homer Glen. Will County Sheriff Deputy Chief Ken Kaupas said three dogs trained in finding weapons and gunpowder found no other weapons-related items during a two-hour investigation of classrooms and lockers. "Obviously we took the situation seriously," he said. Kaupas said the shell casing had turned up around

Recently, I completed the classroom portion of the new Illinois concealed carry licensingrequirement. I then traveled to the firing range with my classmates and passed the live-fire training by destroying a practice target with 30 rounds of 9 mm ammunition fired from three distances. Having had my fingerprints and a recent picture of myself scanned into the Illinois State Police database, completing the online registration form and paying my fee, I submitted my application. In 90 days or less I expect to receive my concealed carry permit and will be able to legally carry a loaded firearm on my person...

In a speech to the Urban League in New Orleans on Wednesday, President Obama decried daily urban gun violence—equal in toll, he said, to an Aurora, Colo., mass shooting every day—but he glossed over what gun-control advocates say is his own record of failing to use existing executive power to tighten access to the deadliest firearms. “There’s talk of new reforms, and there’s talk of new legislation,” Obama told the Urban League, setting the table for a “don’t-blame-me-blame-Congress” explanation for policy drift. “And, too often, those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of...

Town of Eagle - The operator of the McMiller Sports Center shooting range in the Kettle Moraine State Forest Southern Unit wants to sell and rent firearms at the range's pro shop. Brothers Dan and Lloyd Marks and their Milford Hills Hunt Club near Johnson Creek were awarded a five-year lease last September to operate the state-owned McMiller in southwestern Waukesha County. The lease the Markses have with the state Department of Natural Resources allows for the sale and rental of firearms at McMiller provided the necessary permits are obtained, according to Paul Sandgren, forest superintendent of Kettle Moraine's Southern...