A Chicago man is being charged with felony child endangerment after his six-year-old son accidentally shot and killed his younger brother with a gun. CNN.com reports: The boys were playing “cops and robbers” when the gun went off, according to authorities. It happened while their dad, Michael Santiago, 25, was at work, their mom was at […]
A man was critically wounded and two others injured early Wednesday during a wild shootout at a house party near TSU in Nashville.
After being denied entry into a house party, police are reporting that three students were shot near Tennessee State University early Wednesday morning. Fox 13.com reports: Police say a large house party was held on Albion Street right across from TSU’s campus when 3 black men arrived and wanted to get in. Officers say the […]
ELLIJAY, Ga. (AP) — Criticized by one group as the “guns everywhere” bill, Georgia took a big step Wednesday toward expanding where licensed carriers can take their weapons, with the governor signing a law that allows them in bars without restriction and in some churches, schools and government buildings under certain circumstances. Following mass shootings […]
Just how easy is it to buy a gun in the U.S.? D.L. Hughley finds out when he tries to buy one. Listen to the audio player to hear the series of questions he had to answer and what ridiculous criteria qualified him to purchase a gun over the phone!
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won’t be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban’s chances of survival now are all but hopeless. The ban is the most controversial firearms restriction that President Barack Obama and other Democrats have pressed for since […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — English teacher Kevin Leatherbarrow holds a license to carry a concealed weapon and doesn’t see anything wrong with arming teachers in the aftermath of the deadly Connecticut school shooting. “We’re sitting ducks,” said Leatherbarrow, who works at a Utah charter school. “You don’t have a chance in hell. You’re dead […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tennessee lawyer Brian Manookian says he never considered himself a gun enthusiast. He owns just one handgun and was raised in a gun-free home. But the firearms industry has proven so successful in recent years that he decided to give up practicing law and make guns his livelihood. It's a decision that's […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Colorado's movie theater shooting hasn't rekindled the gun control debate in Congress. But Democratic leaders in three of the nation's most populous states are pushing weapons and ammunitions bans. California and New York lawmakers have proposed legislation that would make it more difficult to buy and use guns. Illinois Gov. Pat […]
