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The legal landscape surrounding state and national efforts to restrict firearms in the United States may soon be shifting following another high-profile mass shooting.

Republicans said Michael Flynn’s unmasking was “bigger than Watergate.” We now know just how spectacularly wrong they were.

The Fox News-fueled Justice Department probes then-President Donald Trump demanded as rebuttals to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation generated plenty of frothy Fox content. They also gave Republican partisans excuses to discount the obviously

The District of Columbia v. Heller was a landmark case that protected an individual's right to gun ownership.

Bloomberg Creative Photos via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A spate of deadly gun attacks across the country has reignited the national debate on gun reform in the United States. Lawmakers are arguing over what to do, if anything, to regulate guns. ...

See what you both say, having been steeped in the constitution on this issue, on what -- heller, on what the constitution permits on guns, first, does the constitution allow restrictions on owning or not being able to own an ar-15 style weapon? what do you say? >> i mean, i -- >> go ahead, john. we may have different answers. john, please, go ahead. >> thanks, kate. you know, there will be a question going forward about what sorts of firearms congress or state legislature could ban. i think prob...

And so the court is going to have to decide that at some point. there certainly is leeway to ban what the court called dangerous and unusual weapons. >> and could the ar-15, john, fit under that description? >> well, not to get too technical, but the way heller described the standard was firearms in common use at the time. and what kavanaugh said in his dissent was ar-15s are widely owned, they are in common use. i think the other side would say thats a relatively recent phenomenon, and congress...

Two former SCOTUS clerks who worked on Heller claim Congress has been cowed by Heller. Here's why that doesn't make sense.

Has a problem. he has a problem. hes trying to fix it. can he? thats why were here. >> john, in our reoccurring weekly segment of amazing catches with you, i want to play you a catch at the m mets/nationals game. a home run ball, you can see it. and then in the stands there is a father who leans over and catches it, but whats in his other hand there, john? >> a child! let me answer the question. >> remember the old announcer at baltimore, give that fan a contract, right? thats a great catch. i w...

Not only our politicians and police are cowards about guns — we all are.