Warren Lacasse of Southeast Foster Road’s Gun Room gives a tour of his shop and waits on customers. Thomas Boyd/The OregonianKevin Ensley presses and rolls his ink-stained thumbs onto the back of a six-page form. Within minutes, Oregon State Police scan for any criminal record and electronically app …

A law effective Thursday allows people in the state of Maine to carry concealed handguns without a permit. The new statute, which applies to both residents and non-residents ages 21 and over, means that anyone not otherwise banned from carrying a firearm can carry a concealed handgun within sta …

A Michigan Senate panel approved legislation Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, to allow concealed weapons in schools and other places.LANSING, Mich. — Over strong objections from educators, a Michigan Senate panel approved legislation Tuesday to allow concealed weapons in schools and other places that ar …

Professor Ann Cvetkovich waits to speak during a public forum, Sept. 30, 2015, as a special committee studies how to implement a new law allowing students with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms into class and other campus buildings, which will take effect in August 2016, in Austin, Texas. …

Gun shop found liable in cop shooting(CNN)A Milwaukee jury awarded about $5 million in damages on Tuesday after finding a gun shop negligent for selling a pistol to a man who shot two police officers.The Milwaukee officers, Bryan Norberg and Graham Kunisch, alleged Julius Burton obtained the gun in …

Protesters in Oregon demonstrate against gun control measures after the shooting in Roseburg killed nine people.Two states are proposing bills to expand access to guns on campuses and elsewhere, less than two weeks after a campus mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, killed nine people.On Monday, two R …