Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts banning handgun imports.

Matthew McConaughey penned a heartbreaking note about his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman ruthlessly killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school on Tuesday. After learning of the horror on his home soil, McConaughey issued a call to action to combat gun violence.

A new SPA study examined the impact changes to background checks and licensing policies has made on different types of violent crime in Massachusetts.

NEW YORK (AP) — With computer-generated imagery, it seems the sky’s the limit in the magic Hollywood can produce: elaborate dystopian universes. Trips to outer space, for those neither astronauts nor billionaires.

We write about gun violence in America as our full-time jobs. Between the two of us, we’ve been doing that for over a decade. We see that America’s endless gun debate does not treat shooting victims and their families equitably. It is not driven by a focus on what actually works to save lives. It rarely includes the voices of the majority of the victims or any of the people who have a track record of successfully preventing shootings. It is not just biased; it is actively harmful and racist. And it will never make us safer.

On Monday, it happened again: a mass shooting in America. This time, a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store. Already, the shootings have led to demands for action. “Now is the time!” the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence tweeted.

Gun violence among children is lower in states with more gun laws, according to a Rutgers-led study.

St. Louis police officers reportedly seized a rifle from the husband-and-wife lawyers filmed waving firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters last month. The officers served a warrant on Mark and Patricia McCloskey on Friday night, taking the rifle the husband was pictured aiming, the local NBC affiliate reported.

New rules would make it illegal to sell or use 1,500 kinds of assault weapons.

Ottawa is set to ban a number of assault-style firearms and weapons involved in mass shootings in Canada and abroad, including the Ruger Mini-14 that was used during the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, federal officials say. The formal announcement of the gun ban is expected by the end of the week...

America’s love affair with guns is one of its defining attributes, and the number of mass shootings hit an all-time high in 2019. While politicians vow to tackle the problem, a powerful gun lobby stands in the way.

Two thirds of American gun deaths are suicides. How do you solve a problem hardly anyone talks about?

A Texas lawmaker isn’t backing down from his controversial stance, in the wake of another mass shooting, that changing gun laws would be useless to stop more violence — and that “praying for protection” was the only solution.

One critic called the proposal, which expands on Trump's claim that mental illnesses, not guns, are to blame for gun violence, "nothing less than chilling."

There was no mass shooting in Times Square on Tuesday evening, but thousands of people feared for their lives.

The president claimed he was going to push through new gun laws in the aftermath of two horrific mass shootings, but White House officials admit he has already lost interest.

The NRA might not be able to fight the momentum for change after a pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

Hispanic adults more than twice as likely as white non-Hispanics to say they experience mass shooting-related stress often or constantly.

Data on suicide is often ignored but can inform policymakers in key ways.

In the aftermath of the back-to-back shooting massacres in Texas and Ohio, the debate over gun control has returned to the National Rifle Association and its immense power to stymie any significant legislation on the issue. The man largely responsible for the NRA’s uncompromising stance is its decades-long CEO, Wayne LaPierre, who has been engulfed in turmoil and legal issues as he orchestrates the group’s latest effort to push back against gun control measures.