They panic if a balloon pops. They hold dying family members. They push their wounded bodies to heal and scroll longingly through photos and videos of their lost loved ones. Behind the statistics and the political blame game over rising gun violence are the victims.

A Motherboard investigation found that ShotSpotter frequently generates false alerts—and it's deployed almost exclusively in non-white neighborhoods.

A US gun maker has triggered controversy by selling a kit that makes a real Glock pistol look like a children's Lego toy gun, at a time when hundreds of kids are falling victim to shootings. The colourful brick design gives the semi-automatic weapon a strong resemblance to a Lego toy. The gun maker was marketing it as a Block19, which sold for between US$549 and US$765.

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.

Michael Paterniti, who reported from Columbine for GQ in 1999, leads us from the tragedy there, to the unspeakable horrors at Sandy Hook, to a recent 10-day stretch that suffered 14 mass shootings, including San Bernardino. This is the story of those 10 days, the new and relentless strain of gun violence in America, and the desperate need for us not to look away.

It’s been said that if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns—but that’s not true in Japan, which has some of the strictest laws on the books forbidding the possession of guns, and imposes even harsher penalties for using them. If you fire a gun at someone here, you’re likely to spend more than 20 years in jail.

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.