Guns & Weapons

The judge’s ruling is the latest decision striking down gun laws in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year that changed the test courts have long used to evaluate challenges to firearm restrictions.

Operation SpecTor took down the darknet site Monopoly Market and resulted in the arrests of 288 suspects who sold drugs and other goods for crypto.

The Canadian government is proposing a ban on assault-style firearms that would apply once legislation now before Parliament comes into force.

An “arsenal” of weapons, including a bazooka, AR- and AK-style rifles and tactical gear – that’s just some of what federal investigators say they found in the bedroom of 21-year-old Jack Teixeira. Teixeira is the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman facing upwards of 25 years in prison accused of posting classified documents online. Federal prosecutors dropped nearly 50 pages of documents,…

A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles has cleared the Democratic-controlled Washington state Legislature. Gov. Jay Inslee has pushed for the ban and is expected to sign it into law.

Lee signed the order amid heightened tensions after two Democrats, both Black men, were expelled from the General Assembly for protesting on the House floor against gun violence.

Two fathers got into a shootout during a “cat and mouse” road rage incident that left each of their daughter’s shot. Only one of the fathers was charged.

Two expelled Black Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats.

Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House has expelled two of three Democratic members for their roles in a demonstration in favor of gun control following the Nashville school shooting.

Florida and Nebraska are poised to become the latest states to allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

Nashville authorities have released 911 calls that capture the terror inside an elementary school during this week’s mass shooting, as people in hushed voices urged dispatchers to send help with sirens, crying and gunfire audible in the background.

Police in Texas say a 3-year-old girl found a loaded gun in a home and accidentally shot her sister, killing the 4-year-old on Sunday.

Experts don’t think this is an epidemic of would-be hijackers — nearly everyone caught claims to have forgotten they had a gun with them.

The report shows 54% of guns that police recovered in crime scenes in 2021 had been purchased within three years, a double-digit increase since 2019.

The man who fatally shot a masked robber at a taco shop in Houston, Texas, is referred to a grand jury.

A federal appeals court has ruled against a Trump administration ban on bump stocks, the devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from a semi-automatic weapon after the initial trigger pull. The 13-3 ruling came Friday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. The ban was instituted after a sniper using bump stock-equipped...