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

A Supreme Court case may soon create a constitutional right to freely carry a gun everywhere, but that would be a dangerous mistake to make, suggests a new study of violent crimes.

Local media reports former police officer Philip Brailsford signed an agreement that allowed him to be temporarily rehired to allow him to apply for an accidental disability pension and medical retirement.

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.

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

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.

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

Manufacturing errors, undetected by inexpert consumers, may be more dangerous than other threats from 3D-printed guns.

States with strict gun laws have lower rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers, and laws to keep guns away from minors are linked with fewer gun suicides in this age group, a Stanford study found. Compared with U.S. states with the strictest gun control legislation, gun deaths among children and teenagers are twice as common in states with the most lax gun laws, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.

Debates over gun regulations make headlines across the world, but there’s an underground operation for weapons that has drawn very little attention – until now. Researchers from Michigan State University crept into the dark web to investigate how firearms are anonymously bought and sold around the world. “We know so little about the distribution of firearms sold on the dark web that it’s kind of a black hole, similar to illicit pharmaceuticals and narcotics: We know people buy them online, but we don’t know to what extent,” said Thomas Holt, MSU professor of criminal justice and co-author.

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker says he's fed up with inaction on gun reform after mass shootings, calling the oft-repeated refrain of politicians who offer "thoughts and prayers" to victims "just bullsh**."

Most US households with children do not safely store firearms in the way the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends: locked up and unloaded. If parents simply locked up all their guns, then up to a third of gun suicides and accidental deaths among children and teens could be avoided, researchers estimate in a new study.

District of Columbia v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.

A decentralised network of gun-printing advocates is mobilising online, they're anonymously sharing blueprints, advice and building a community. There's no easy way they can be halted

States with stricter gun control laws had 4% fewer pediatric deaths

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...

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.

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?

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

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