Amish gun owners in Illinois face a showdown over their religious teachings and their Second Amendment rights, after a change in policy may require them to have their picture taken for their Firearm ...

Those cute Amish buggies may soon be packing heat. A bill introduced by state Sen. Catharine Young, an upstate Republican, would exempt the Amish, Mennonites and other religious sects from a state ...

A Republican state senator from upstate New York wants to make it easier for members of the Amish and Mennonite communities to buy a gun. Earlier this week, Senator Catharine Young introduced ...

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A collision over the religious beliefs of the Amish and their gun ownership rights is brewing over an apparent reversal of Illinois state policy on Firearm Owner’s Identification requirements.

A man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle shot the gun into the air, accidentally killing a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away, a sheriff said Tuesday. Dec. 20, ...

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