This is an opinion cartoon. The city flag of Birmingham consists of a vertical triband of red-white-red stripes with a red star at the center surrounded by a ring of 67 tiny golden stars. Within the large red star is the official seal of the city in gold and black.

A federal program that provides aid and promotes justice for crime victims is extending support to the Birmingham community in the wake of a mass shooting outside Hush, a lounge in the Five Points South district.

State Rep. Phillip Ensler says he is sponsoring a bill for the next legislative system to get a state law against Glock switches on the books.

A bill to ban devices that convert semi-automatic handguns to automatic fire has support from Alabama lawmakers in both parties, even in a statehouse generally leery of any restrictions on firearms. After a mass shooting outside the Hush lounge in Birmingham,

The mass shooting in the Five Points neighborhood of Birmingham Saturday night has led to new calls to ban devices that turn semi-automatic firearms into automatic ones. But it’s not clear if the proposals – introduced in the previous two sessions – can pass in a Legislature that has loosened most gun restrictions over the