A Florida man has been sentenced to six years and five months in prison for accidentally shooting a gun while taking a selfie in a strip club restroom. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa announced 34-year-old Rorn Sorn’s sentencing Monday. The Asian Pride Gang member pleaded guilty in April to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.

Walmart is profusely condemning a sign that showed up in one of its stores that appeared to market firearms as essential back to school items.

A man is charged with attempted murder and a raft of firearms offences after helping fend off home invaders, one of whom he’s now charged with shooting. Kyle Earl Munroe was arrested on July 12 after RCMP and Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of a home invasion involving firearms at a home in Porters Lake. Police said that three men entered the residence with guns and a struggle took place with two men inside.

A 10-year-old boy from rural Lawrence County died on Sunday night after being accidentally shot by his father on Saturday evening. Sheriff Brad DeLay identifies the victim as Garrett Spaulding, who lived with his family south of Miller. DeLay says the Spaulding family raises chickens. He said on Monday afternoon that a rooster was in some brush and the family was trying to get it back in its pen. He said the boy's father was carrying a small-caliber rifle when he tripped and fell. The gun fired and hit Garrett in the head. He died about 24 hours later.

The Armatix iP1 pistol and its RFID watch, are sold as one of the most secure firearm systems available. But a hacker, who goes by 'Plore', has found flaws in the Armatix that entirely defeat its security measures.

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A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law set to take effect Saturday that would have barred gun owners from possessing high-capacity ammunition magazines. The judge ruled that the ban approved by the Legislature and voters last year takes away gun owners’ Second Amendment rights and amounts to the government taking people’s private property without compensation.

“Sir, I have to tell you, I do have a firearm on me,” Castile says in a newly released video.

How would the French cartoonists have done if they’d been armed with rifles instead of pens?  By Dan Soloman. (Jan. 15, 2015)

The Islamic State has urged its adherents to buy weapons from gun shows in the United States to take advantage of gun control laws. “The acquisition of firearms can be very simple depending on one’s geographical location,” says a new piece in Rumiyah, ISIS's propaganda magazine, the Washington Post reports. “In most U.S. states, anything from a single-shot shotgun all the way up to a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle can be purchased at showrooms or through online sales — by way of private dealers — with no background checks, and without requiring either an ID or a gun license.”

African American women organizing shooting classes are finding a surge of interest – and many say it comes down to feeling less safe in the era of Trump

A Chicago-area woman arrested last year for her role in illegally selling guns to prohibited buyers, some with gang affiliations, was sentenced to probation and community service last week. Simone Mousheh, 23, of the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect, will have to complete 15 days of community service in the Cook County Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program and 12 months probation after pleading guilty to illegal transfer of firearms last week, as reported by the Daily Herald.

A Georgia teen was livestreaming a video on Instagram Monday evening when he accidentally shot himself. Malachi Hemphill, 13, was rushed to Gracy Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, where he was pronounced dead, news station WXIA reported. His mom, Shaniqua Stephens, was home when her son fatally shot himself while handling the gun in his bedroom in Forest Park, Georgia. She said he had been trying to put a clip in the gun.

Millions of people who shoot, for work or leisure, risk lead poisoning, according to new research.

Stanford researchers report that the $6.6 billion figure is just the tip of the iceberg: It does not include costs of emergency room visits or hospital readmissions.

More than 90 people are killed by guns every day in the United States. In 2013, there were 33,636 gun deaths in the US. Civilians own approximately 270 million guns, roughly one “for every man, woman, and child,” as President Obama noted in an address to the nation in the wake of the shooting rampage at an Oregon community college last October that left 10 dead. A nationwide study that shows just 9 of 25 state gun laws are effective in reducing firearm deaths, suggests that if three laws implemented in some states were adopted nationwide, they could reduce gun deaths by more than 80 percent.

Gun owners in the US state of  New Hampshire will now be able to conceal and carry their loaded weapons without a licence. “It is common-sense legislation,” said state governor Chris Sununu at a ceremony marking the change in the law, which abolished the need for mandatory concealed-carry licences “This is about making sure that our laws on our books are keeping people safe while remaining true to the live-free-or-die spirit.”  

A federal judge on Tuesday gave the green light to a suit against the state of Illinois’ prohibition on foster parents from possessing functional guns in their homes. U.S. District Judge Colin Stirling Bruce, a 2013 appointment by President Obama, swatted away a motion by the state to dismiss the suit saying the would-be foster parents that brought it raised “sufficient factual allegations” to proceed to a hearing.

A new survey halves the estimate from two decades ago. By Bryan Schatz.

Missouri’s new constitutional carry law will be effective New Year’s Day. Senate Bill 656 made it so Missourians can carry a concealed gun without a permit or training.