A 13-year-old in Chicago takes his father’s pistol out of a lockbox and removes the magazine from the weapon. He shows the gun to a neighbor the same age, and pretends to fire it several times. Two ...

People in Southeastern states like Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama run the greatest risk of a gunshot accidentally killing them, researchers said. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Americans' ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - A judge sentenced the Berkeley County gun store owner in connection with the shooting death of one of his employees in 2021 that resulted from a prank that went wrong.

In the space of a month late this summer, Utah saw three cases of small children getting hold of a firearm and shooting themselves. In two of those cases, the child died. State Rep. Matt MacPherson ...

This year is on track to see the fewest mass shootings and gun deaths in the U.S. since 2019, according to data from Gun Violence Archive—a feat that comes as violent crime broadly continues to fall ...

A 13-year-old in Chicago takes his father’s pistol out of a lockbox and removes the magazine from the weapon. He shows the gun to a neighbor the same age, and pretends to fire it several times. Two ...

As for the risk posed by a seemingly unloaded weapon, industry groups and firearms experts say these accidents are relatively rare and happen only after people have violated the cardinal rules of gun ...

More than a hundred years ago, gunmakers devised a way to prevent this type of accident from ever happening. A small metal piece known as a magazine disconnect keeps a pistol from firing if the ...