Outside the Beltway

Another mass shooting.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Maryland’s ban on certain so-called “assault weapons,” but it’s unclear if the Supreme Court will even take up the case.

A new poll finds strong public support for enhanced background checks and barring people on Federal watch lists from purchasing weapons.

Continuing a pattern that began six years ago, the Supreme Court has again declined to hear an appeal in a case involving a challenge to state gun control laws.

With Republicans in Trump-induced disarray, Libertarians are meeting to pick their nominee and the hope that 2016 could be the year their party finally gets the attention it has craved for four decades.

The gun control regulations to be announced later today by President Obama later today amount to far less than the hype would lead you to believe.

If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose a ban on so-called ‘assault weapons,’ a marked change from two decades ago.

The Supreme Court has declined to accept an appeal challenging a law barring certain types of so-called ‘assault weapons’ in a Chicago suburb.

For an Oval Office address delivered on a Sunday night, President Obama’s speech last night sounded more like a statement read from the podium in the press room.

Some people in the media can’t seem to get it through their heads that speech they consider hateful is entitled to as much protection as speech that they support.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

Low voter priorities and the natural tendency of the media to move on to the next big story meant that gun control was not going to be a top political issue for long.

The filibuster is now so commonplace that it’s baked into the expectations.

The politics of gun control is not nearly as easy as its supporters believe it to be.

There’s a very simple reason why gun control is stalling in Congress despite its popularity in the polls.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

The GOP’s decision to filibuster the Senate Gun Control Bill doesn’t make a lot of political sense.

California’s senior senator comes to the right conclusion through the wrong reasoning.

The post-Newtown momentum for gun control has slowed significantly.

The Quark Side Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The GOP isn’t going to solve it’s problems solely by concentrating on “messaging.”

Bill Clinton has a warning for his fellow Democrats.

President Obama has unveiled a set of restrictions that wouldn’t have stopped the Sandy Hook Massacre. Some are nonetheless be good policy.

Despite the push it’s likely to receive, most of President Obama’s gun control proposals will barely even see the light of day in Congress.

Based on the polls, the odds of some changes to America’s gun control laws will become law. It’s unlikely they’ll accomplish anything, though.

The ultimate impact of the Newtown tragedy on the nation’s gun laws is likely to be very limited.

Sharing some thoughts and soliciting feedback on what the 2nd amendment means.

The NRA’s response to the Sandy Hook shootings was bizarre to say the least.

Obsessive media coverage makes us believe mass shootings are far more common than they actually are.