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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft determination Thursday that a proposed machine gun training range at a National Guard base could pose a threat to Cape Cod’s drinking water. The agency said there are no reasonably available alternative drinking water sources for residents should the Cape Cod aquifer become contaminated. The agency said the range could potentially create...

Joseph Eaton is accused of shooting and killing his parents and their friends before shooting three other people on the highway, who he believed were police following him.

Authorities have shared new information on a pair of shootings Tuesday that left four people dead in Bowdoin, Maine, and three more hospitalized, one critically injured, on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care to reduce suicides in the military, but held off on endorsing more controversial recommendations to restrict gun and ammunition purchases.

A Rhode Island man found with an arsenal of more than 200 guns at his home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and a flamethrower has agreed to plead guilty to some federal charges, according to court documents. At a date to be determined, Ronald Andruchuk, 38, will plead guilty to lying to authorities in order to purchase guns…

A student brought a gun to Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and was arrested on Wednesday, police said. The student was spotted by another one, who had texted a parent sying they believed they saw the 14-year-old with a gun, according to the Lawrence Police Department. The student was found by the department’s school resource officer after the...

Police discovered a cache of weapons in a hospital closet, and the man facing charges for it is the hospital marketing director. Anjali Hemphill reports.

Police responding to a bomb threat at a New Jersey hospital discovered a massive weapons cache hidden inside an employee’s unlocked closet that contained more than three dozen firearms, according to police.

A Winthrop, Massachusetts man was arraigned Tuesday on accusations he was pointing a replica assault weapon at people during preparations for the Fourth of July in town on Saturday. Gregory Gill, 23, faces two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. He was arrested Saturday by Winthrop police and arraigned Tuesday at the East Boston Division of Boston Municipal Court….

The gun safety legislation makes changes to background checks for young gun buyers and increases funding for mental health programs.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York state law that had restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in public. Under the law in place since 1913, New York residents needed to show proper cause, or an actual need, to carry a concealed handgun in public for self-defense. The justices said that law…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday that he is “comfortable” with the contours of a bipartisan deal on gun legislation and will back it if the measure “ends up reflecting what the framework indicates.”  “I’m comfortable with the framework and if the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicates, I’ll be supporting” it, McConnell said. The powerful Republican’s...

Police in Portland, Maine say an investigation into the whereabouts of a rifle that may have been hidden in the backyard of a home in a residential area of the city remains open. On Saturday, police responded to an address on Wall Street where one rifle was found on the ground. A picture taken by a witness that morning and…

Police are investigating after a rifle was found hidden in a backyard on in Portland, Maine, on Saturday and say a second hidden rifle may still be out there.

A 2-year old boy fatally shot his father in an accident after finding a gun, and the boy’s mother is now facing criminal charges, authorities in Florida said Monday

After more mass shooting tragedies, Craig McDermott said he didn’t want to risk selling anything that could later be used in a tragic outburst of violence.

The owner of a small business in central Vermont has changed his policy around assault-style rifles — no longer selling them following the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas and another investigation that hit close to home. At Gold And Silver Thrift, a pawn shop in Barre, owner Craig McDermott still stocks pistols and hunting rifles — but he said he…

Daniel Defense, a Georgia gun manufacturer, will not attend the National Rifle Association convention in Texas because of the mass shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde.

Gun control measures are likely going nowhere in Congress, and they also have become increasingly scarce in most states.

In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, politicians on both sides of the aisle have lobbed angry barbs about gun policies — including Beto O’Rourke’s angry confrontation of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a news conference. While some say that now isn’t the time for politics, NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky explains why politics is...