assault weapons ban

Jimmy Carter is an avid hunter and gun owner who also happens to have once been president of the United States. The combination makes him well-placed in the current debate (or rather non-debate) over whether Americans should retain the right to own semi-automatic assault weapons. And he isn’t buying the “slippery-slope” argument that banning military-style [...]

In recent weeks more than 60 people — including seven police officers — have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.