“A local gun rights group is bringing an advanced training course to Colorado to help local teachers, principals and other school personnel learn how to stop a Columbine-style mass shooting. The effort, launched by Coloradans for Civil Liberties, is welcomed by school officials in rural areas, who say teachers and others need to be trained…
“Chicago aldermen on Wednesday put aside their fears of appearing to be soft on crime and relaxed the city’s rigid rules on where shooting ranges can be located and who can use them. The City Council put off the politically volatile vote last month for fear of a backlash in a city struggling to control…
“A Senate committee took direct aim at influential gun lobby groups Tuesday by modifying a bill to exempt public hospitals and mental health facilities from a state law allowing concealed weapons in facilities without metal detectors and security personnel at entrances. Action during a brief meeting of the Senate Ways and Means Committee stripped from…
“The Kansas Senate failed to reach consensus Tuesday on a bill exempting state-affiliated medical and mental health facilities from compliance with a law allowing concealed handguns to be carried by the public in those facilities after July 1. After more than an hour of debate on House Bill 2278, including consideration of two amendments, the…
