A team of 26 cyclists rode from Newtown, Conn. to D.C. in support of stricter gun control laws.

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings tomorrow near Navy Yard.

“It is bad enough that House Republicans continually reveal themselves to be hypocrites with repeated introduction of legislation to usurp the local autonomy of the District of Columbia despite their insistence on reducing the power of the federal government,” Norton said in a statement. “The timing of this bill, as we remember the victims of the tragic Newtown shooting and their families, is especially insulting and out of line.”

Some pedestrians walking around on a warm spring day were treated to quite the shock yesterday when a school bus mounted on a flatbed rolled through Georgetown. Only, this wasn’t an ordinary school bus.

Twenty-six professional and amateur bikers left Newton, Conn. and are now pedaling their way to Washington, where they plan to call on Congress to enact comprehensive gun control legislation.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is joining a chorus of other Democratic governors in seeking a tightening of his state’s gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

No one denies that Virginians love their guns, but in the wake of the Newtown massacre they also seem inclined to support some modest gun control proposals.

A six-year-old in Montgomery County was suspended in late December after using his hand to make the shape of a gun and pointing it at another student.

In the wake of the Newtown massacre, Ward 7 activist Ron Moten wants city legislators to crack down on the sale of violent and sexually explicit video games to minors.

Breaking his organization’s week-long silence in the aftermath of the shooting spree at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, finally addressed the media today.