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Former Tucson, Ariz. mayoral candidate Shaun McClusky poses with a shotgun at Black Weapons Armory in Tucson, Thursday, March 28, 2013. The weapon is similar to those to be given away as part of a privately funded program he is launching to provide residents in crime-prone areas with free shotguns so they can defend themselves against criminals. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Gun proponents giving away shotguns in crime-ridden neighborhoods

Last updated Friday, March 29, 2013 - 9:31am

TUCSON, Ariz.-- A campaign promising free shotguns for people to protect themselves in Tucson's most troubled neighborhoods has divided some residents in a community still reeling from a shooting rampage in 2011that killed six people, left a congresswoman and several others wounded, and made the city a symbol of gun violence in America.

The Armed Citizen Project is part of a national campaign to give shotguns to single women and homeowners in the nation's crime-ridden neighborhoods, an effort that comes amid a national debate on gun control after mass shootings in Arizona, Colorado and Connecticut.

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Uintah residents fire back at veto of carry permit bill

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 11:40pm

UINTAH — A group of Uintah city residents are firing back at Gov. Gary Herbert’s veto of House Bill 76 by helping circulate word of a petition calling for a special session of the state Legislature to be called for the purpose of overriding the governor’s action.

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President Barack Obama urges Congress to take action on measures to protect children from gun violence, Thursday, March 28, 2013, while speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Standing with Obama are Vice President Joe Biden, and, according to the White House, law enforcement officials, victims of gun violence, and others, who the White House did not want to name. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama pushes gun-control agenda

Philip Rucker The Washington Post

Last updated Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 2:37pm

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered a forceful and emotional plea to lawmakers Thursday to pass his gun-control agenda, saying “shame on us if we’ve forgotten” the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper brings a folded flag to the family of Tom Clements during the public memorial for the chief executive of the Department of Corrections at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo on Monday, March 25, 2013. Clements was shot and killed on the doorstep of his Monument, Colo. home last week. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Jerilee Bennett, Pool)

Sheriff won't enforce new Colo. gun laws

Jennifer Oldham Bloomberg News

Last updated Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 2:03pm

DENVER — Days after Gov. John Hickenlooper, D, signed Colorado’s toughest gun-control laws in more than a decade, some sheriffs are denouncing them as unenforceable, even in a state that has seen two of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

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Kelly said he planned on turning the gun over to Tucson police. | AP Photo

Ariz. store won't sell assault rifle to Gabby Giffords' husband

Josh Vorhees Slate

Last updated Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 12:29pm

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Maybe it’s more difficult than we all thought to purchase an AR-15-style rifle.

Well, at least if you make it very clear that you never plan to actually fire it.

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In this photo combo, Wayne LaPierre, left, CEO of the National Rifle Association, makes remarks at CPAC 2013, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 15, 2013; and at right, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to the Economic Club of Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, in Washington. Two of the loudest voices in the gun debate say it's up to voters now to make their position known to Congress. LaPierre and Bloomberg claim their views on guns have the support of the overwhelming number of Americans. (AP Photo, Ron Sachs, Manuel Balce Ceneta)

NRA leader says NYC mayor wants to buy gun control support with ads

Aaron Blake The Washington Post

Last updated Monday, March 25, 2013 - 1:24pm

WASHINGTON — National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre said Sunday that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, I, is trying to “buy America” by spending millions from his personal fortune to urge key senators to vote for gun control.

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Gun supporters use of Nazi, Hitler references irritates historians

Adam Geller The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 8:56am

When the president of Ohio's state school board posted her opposition to gun control, she used a powerful symbol to make her point: a picture of Adolf Hitler. When a well-known conservative commentator decried efforts to restrict guns, he argued that if only Jews in Poland had been better armed, many more would have survived the Holocaust.

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Alissa and Robbie Parker, who graduated from Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, leave the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire House in tears after learning their 6-year-old daughter, Emilie, had been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn. Adam Lanza killed 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in corners and closets and trembled helplessly to the sound of shots reverberating through the building. He later killed himself as police arrived at the crime scene. Alissa Parker is urging Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to veto a gun bill that would allow people to cover a gun with a coat if they don't have a gun permit. (Associated Press file photo)

Emilie Parker's mom among those urging veto of Utah gun bill

Annie Knox, Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 8:20pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The mother of one of 20 students killed in the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn., is pressing Gov. Gary Herbert to veto a bill that would allow Utah residents to carry a hidden, unloaded gun without a permit.

The mother, Alissa Parker, lives in Connecticut, but she’s originally from Ogden, where her daughter, 6-year-old Emilie Parker, was buried. Emilie was among the 20 students and six adults killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The bill is one of the most high-profile proposals to come from the Utah Legislature this year. Aides to the governor say a tide of opposition came in against the bill in March.

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Rep. Michael Paymar, D-St. Paul, testifies before his own public safety committee at the State Capitol as he took questions about his bill which would require universal background checks for gun buyers Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Assault weapons ban now unlikely

Alan Fram The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 4:57pm

WASHINGTON -- All but ending chances for an assault weapons ban, Democratic leaders said Tuesday the firearms legislation the Senate will debate next month won't include the provision that gun-control advocates pressed for after an assault-type weapon was used in the Newtown school shootings in December.

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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is pictured during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in the Capitol in Denver. Hickenlooper will sign legislation Wednesday, March 20, 2013 that sets limits on ammunition magazines and expands background checks for firearms, marking a Democratic victory in a state where gun ownership is a treasured right and Second Amendment debate has played out in the wake of two mass shootings. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Colo. gun restrictions become political hot potato

Ivan Moreno, Kristen Wyatt The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 4:59pm

DENVER — Firearms play an outsized role in the hearts of Coloradans. It’s a frontier state that adopted Buffalo Bill and Doc Holliday as native sons and where treasured guns are routinely passed from generation to generation.

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Gun control groups target NRA-backed tactics

Ed O'Keefe, Philip Rucker The Washington Post

Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 9:14am

WASHINGTON — Gun-control advocates are hoping to reverse some of the political influence of the National Rifle Association and other gun rights proponents by urging the White House to strip the president’s next budget proposal of any provision that limits how federal agencies track firearms.

They are targeting one of the oldest tricks in the congressional playbook, a legislative sleight-of-hand that tucks little, sometimes random, changes to federal policy into massive “must pass” spending bills with the hope that they slip quietly under the radar and into law.

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Senate pushes controversial gun bill to Herbert

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 11:51pm

SALT LAKE CITY — State lawmakers will force the governor’s hand on a controversial gun bill dealing with concealed carry requirements in Utah.

The Senate approved HB 76 Wednesday morning with a 21-7 vote mostly along party lines, with only Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Cottonwood Heights, and Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, voting against it among the GOP majority.

Gov. Gary Herbert has hinted he will veto the bill but has shied away from being specific on the topic. In a Tuesday news conference, he reiterated his belief that the state’s current guns laws are sufficient.

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WSU panel discusses merits of gun control in schools

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 11:34pm

OGDEN — Do Utah schools need more guns to deter or combat heavily armed intruders? Would a gun ban on the Weber State campus be a good idea?

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Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, is the Senate sponsor of the measure and said the bill takes away some of the angst of people regarding someone openly carrying a firearm.

Concealed-carry gun bill moves forward, but Herbert threatens a veto

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 10:59pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A controversial gun bill continues to make its way through the legislative process.

The Senate voted 19-6 on Tuesday to move HB 76, dealing with concealed-carry requirements in Utah, from the second to the third reading calendar.

The bill is one step from being forwarded to the desk of Gov. Gary Herbert.

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Controversial gun bill advances to Senate

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 8, 2013 - 10:54pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Legislation asserting the rights of the state to trump anything the federal government may pass regarding gun control has cleared another hurdle.

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