Gun Articles

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said that a criminal defendant may not be allowed to present a Second Amendment defense to a federal jury in Utah. The excuse: Alleged domestic violence.

Sometimes they shoot, and sometimes they kill. Thanks to Stand your ground law that says citizens can shoot if faced with a violent attacker.

Last week, United States and Mexican government officials signed an agreement concerning cross-border drug crimes, an agreement with implications for gun dealers along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Frightening is how Dr. Nancy Snyderman described it when MSNBC spotted a man openly carrying a holstered handgun near a New Hampshire town hall meeting where President Obama was scheduled to speak.

Three months after officers with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided a mobile home on Hosford Bridge Road and seized 14 guns, the home's owner still has many questions.

A gun store clerk is shot to death in a robbery/homicide, but because the clerk was able to shoot back, at least one of the robbers was apprehended and brought to justice after being forced to check himself into a hospital for treatment.

A wounded burglary suspect is arrested after checking himself into a hospital for gun-shot treatment.

A St. Louis man was shot twice after he allegedly broke into the home where his ex-girlfriend was staying Tuesday. The homeowner used a gun to defend himself and the ex-girlfriend, police said.

New Hampshire state law is pretty clear about protecting its citizens' rights to carry firearms in public. Carrying a pistol or revolver openly is permitted without a license; carrying a concealed weapon requires a license from the state or local police. William Kostric took advantage of that law on Tuesday to show up outside President Obama's Portsmouth, N.H. town hall meeting and hold a sign saying It Is Time To Water The Tree Of Liberty.

A resident shot and killed an intruder in southwest Bakersfield after the suspect shot the resident twice, a Bakersfield Police official said.

A Wisconsin nursery owner detains a thief-in-the-night with a .22 caliber revolver, and helps the authorities apprehend the suspect.

Nearly 100 people crowded into a small room on the warm summer evening to listen intently to the message conveyed by Richard Mack, former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona. A career in law enforcement led Mack to the conclusion that the county sheriff is our nation's last line of defense for the preservation and return to fundamental and individual liberty.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he would raise money for a national campaign to counter the political influence of the National Rifle Association, building on the recent defeat of federal legislation that would have eased prohibitions against carrying concealed weapons.

In early August, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine (D) signed a bill into law making it illegal to buy more than one handgun per month. The law aims to impede straw purchasers - people who have clean records and buy guns legally, then pass them to criminals, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

President Obama's call for the Senate to ratify a hemispheric small-firearms treaty dominated his last visit to Mexico, but in the four months since, both the treaty pledge and the drug violence that prompted it have dropped off the radar - a victim of Congress' full schedule and gun politics.

One year ago, David Thweatt made a decision so controversial and groundbreaking the story about it sped around the world. The superintendent of the isolated Harrold Independent School District, made history last August when he and his school board decided to allow select teachers and staff members at the 110-student school to carry guns on campus - a first for Texas and the nation.