Gun Violence

State legislators and gun rights advocates are calling on the State Fair of Texas to rescind its new policy banning firearms, implemented nearly a year after a shooting at the fair injured three.

All firearms, including concealed carry, are now banned from fairgrounds. The same security companies will provide metal detectors and guards at entrances.

A range of victims and witnesses are expected to testify in the civil case against accused shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents. Evidence related to the 2018 shooting will be made public for the first time.

Biden planned to deliver a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin on Monday to commemorate 60 years since the Civil Rights Act was signed.

Texas leaders in both political parties expressed outrage and support for former President Donald Trump after a shooting at a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

The FBI identified the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa. One person at the rally was killed and two others wounded before Secret Service agents killed the shooter.

In 2021, after the dedication of a new church, its members voted to have the site of the mass shooting demolished. Amber Holder filed the lawsuit because, she said, she, several survivors, and family of the victims were not given a chance to vote on that 2021 decision.

In two lawsuits, the families of two hospital workers say Nestor Hernandez, Methodist Hospitals of Dallas and the Texas parole board share blame for the murders.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in U.S. vs. Rahimi that a domestic violence gun law is constitutional.

Gun reform advocates and parents of Uvalde school shooting victims tried and failed to get the Texas legislature to pass gun restrictions. They say the fight isn't over.

The lawsuit accuses Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the shooter’s weapon, of marketing its products to young people.

Former President Donald Trump spoke at the NRA convention amid his criminal hush money trial in New York. The NRA also faced legal troubles in Manhattan after a civil corruption trial.