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A Texas child is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the chest during his birthday party, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

Boston’s Emerson College issued an all clear around 11:15 a.m. Friday after a campus-wide alert for a report of a person with a gun on or near their campus. According to the alert, which was issued around 10:45 a.m., the person was seen at the rear of the Paramount Center loading dock, moving away from campus. The person was...

A man was arrested after allegedly pulling a gun after an argument about masks in a Massachusetts Walgreens store last week, police said. Like all stores across the commonwealth, the Bridgewater location of Walgreens requires a mask to enter. One man inside Friday evening was upset that another was not wearing a facial covering. Police say the confrontation escalated, spilling…

A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan

The Transportation Security Administration says its officers found a loaded gun in a man’s backpack at Rhode Island’s T.F. Green Airport. The agency in a statement said the .45 caliber handgun with nine bullets was spotted Monday by a security checkpoint X-ray machine. TSA officers alerted airport police, who confiscated the gun and questioned the Cranston man before releasing...

A man playing a video game in a mobile home in the Oklahoma City suburb of Midwest City was fatally shot Sunday, apparently in an accident, by his best friend who was cleaning a gun, police said.

Transportation Security Administration agents are finding more guns than ever before in carry-on bags at airport checkpoints nationwide, according to TSA data obtained by NBC 7 Investigates.

A teenager speeding down Boston’s Soldier Field Road Thursday was arrested with a loaded handgun, a bag full of what to be marijuana and more than $700 in cash, police said Friday. William Guerrero, 18, was pulled over after a state trooper saw the speeding vehicle, and the officer noticed that Guerro was possibly impaired, Massachusetts State Police said in...

A bullet flew into a home and landed on a bed in East Wareham, Massachusetts, Thursday night, police said. No one was hurt in the incident, which took place about 7:15 p.m. on Quaker Road, according to Wareham police.

Authorities found a loaded handgun in a man’s belongings at Logan International Airport last week, the Transportation Security Administration said, marking the third time this month a traveler has been caught at the airport with a firearm.

A loaded handgun discovered in a carry-on bag brought a security screening line to a halt at Boston Logan International Airport on Labor Day, officials said. The 9mm gun was found in the bag of a man from Dublin, New Hampshire, according to a news release from the Transportation Security Administration.

New Hampshire authorities say a man walked into a police department to report a stolen gun, then pulled out a gun and didn’t surrender before officers used a stun gun on him. Police said 30-year-old Khalid Dibi walked into the Manchester Police Department clerk at about 10:15 a.m. Monday. He pulled a gun out of a bag and pointed it...

An 8-year-old boy vacationing in New Hampshire recently stumbled across a gun while swimming in a lake in Alton, according to police. The boy, named Jackson, was exploring the lake bottom Tuesday when he spotted a “glimmer of metal” on the lake bed and swam down to grab it, only to find it was a gun. Alton police said Jackson...

Federal officials say a loaded handgun has been confiscated from a passenger at the Burlington International Airport. The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that TSA officers spotted the gun when the Tennessee man’s carry-on bag went through the X-ray machine on Saturday.

Federal officials say a loaded handgun has been confiscated from a passenger at the Burlington International Airport. The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that TSA officers spotted the gun when the Tennessee man’s carry-on bag went through the X-ray machine on Saturday.

Transportation Security Administration officials at Boston’s Logan Airport say two more loaded handguns were found at checkpoints over the weekend. The guns found on Sunday mark the fifth and sixth ones found by officers so far this year. Authorities said an Arizona man was stopped with a 9 mm handgun that was loaded with six bullets and a New Hampshire...

A Massachusetts man was detained at Boston’s Logan Airport Sunday for having a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag. Transportation Security Administration officials said the Weymouth man was carrying a .22 caliber handgun loaded with 10 bullets including one in the chamber when he arrived at the security checkpoint. TSA officers, who spotted the gun in the X-ray machine, contacted...

A Massachusetts man was detained Sunday after TSA officials said he brought a loaded gun to a  security checkpoint at Logan Airport.

The New Hampshire House approved several bills Tuesday aimed at tightening the rules on gun purchases in the state, a dramatic shift in a state known to have some of the least restrictive laws in the country. Supporters in the Democratically-controlled body voted 199-147 in favor of a bill that would mandate a seven-day waiting period on gun sales. The...