Spartan Echo

  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Key measures of New York’s tough new gun law have kicked in, meaning owners of firearms now reclassified as assault weapons are required to register the guns. There are also new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines. The new provisions took effect Monday. New York’s affiliate of [...]

An Editorial by Renon Weatherford In the last year, there have been multiple mass shootings in the U.S. a few probably still fresh in our minds, like the shooting at the movie theater in Colorado, the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and the former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner who targeted [...]

  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus has been here before. Back during the Clinton era, the Democrat faced a choice: support an assault weapons ban urged by a president from his own party and risk angering constituents who cherish their gun rights, or buck his party. He chose the ban, and nearly [...]