Research by Forefront Suicide Prevention at the University of Washington, from visits to 18 gun shows and other community events around Washington state last year, found that engaging people in a...

A surge in people buying guns since the coronavirus pandemic began has flooded the FBI's background check system, causing a spike in the number of delayed checks and allowing gun sales to proceed without them, FBI data disclosed on Tuesday showed.

Letitia James seeks to dissolve the National Rifle Association, which was founded in New York, amid corruption allegations.

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

Gun stores are reporting a sharp rise in the number of Asian people purchasing firearms to protect themselves from racist attacks amid the coronavirus outbreak. David Liu, the owner of Arcadia Firearm & Safety in San Gabriel Valley, has claimed that he has seen around 10 times more customers walk through his door in recent weeks.

The U.S. Air Force has offered the first good look at how its new-ish GAU-5/A carbines squeeze in with other items inside a survival kit that the service's pilots are now flying with under their ejection seats. The guns are converted standard M4 carbines with various new features, most notably a special locking system that allows users to break it down into two halves in 30 seconds or less and reassemble when necessary just as fast.

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

Roughly one-third of young males and 1 in 10 females in rural communities have carried a handgun, reports a new University of Washington study.

A Wisconsin man has been discovered living in an underground bunker beside the Milwaukee River, and it's possible that he's been living there for years, say authorities.

The fear of gun control in the United States might be one of the leading drivers behind people's tendency to purchase firearms after a mass shooting

The San Francisco council said the gun-rights group 'incites gun owners to acts of violence'.

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.

“I think it’s a problem of the heart, to be honest with you. We have some of the most violent video games that you can see," Mayor David Turner told MSNBC.

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

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.

After yet another mass shooting in America, yet again a certain group of people are keen to blame this horrific violence on video games. Why hasn't the debate around this matured?

In the two decades since Columbine, video games have taken a lot of the blame for mass shootings. The evidence has never supported this conclusion, and researchers have become only more certain that media don’t cause violence, or even aggression. Nevertheless, the idea persists. Just hours after a horrifying shooting—including the one that left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday—someone will blame video games.

Police have identified 24-year-old white male Connor Betts from Bellbrook, Ohio, as the shooter who claimed nine lives and injured 27 others in Dayton on Sunday morning. Among the nine dead was the shooter's sister, Megan Betts, 22, Lt. Col. Matt Carper said at a press conference Sunday.

Very few law enforcement agencies take accountability seriously. Even when officers are held responsible for wrongdoing, their employers find ways to soften the blow. Powerful police unions make the situation worse. The gap between officers and...