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News Articles: Firearms

Travelers arrive for flights at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Dec. 16.

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  • National

The TSA found a record number of guns in carry-on bags this year

The TSA found 6,301 firearms in carry-on bags, most of which were loaded, in 2022.

December 18, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
A visitor holds a weapon during the Shot Fair Brasil, an arms exhibition held at the Expoville Conventions and Exhibitions Center in Joinville, Santa Catarina state, Brazil, on Aug. 5.

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  • World

Brazil's firearm ownership booms, and gun laws loosen, under President Bolsonaro

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has issued more than a dozen decrees in favor of Brazilians' right to bear arms. Sales have spiked and gun shops and shooting ranges have opened up all over Brazil.

August 13, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with government officials and gun control advocates, speaks at a news conference on May 30 about firearm-control legislation that was tabled in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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  • World

As gun violence rises in Canada, weapons from the U.S. complicate gun control efforts

A bill before Canada's Parliament aims to stop the spread of handguns — but one of the most difficult challenges for Canada is the guns being smuggled over the border from the U.S.

July 09, 2022
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By:
  • Emma Jacobs
Authorities found two rocket launchers and a practice grenade at a house in Temecula, Calif., on Tuesday.

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  • National

Rocket launchers were found in a trash can near a California school

Grenades and rocket launchers are federally classified as firearms and are therefore legal with proper registration. But in California, possessing a destructive device is illegal.

April 02, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Protestors take part in a rally of Moms against gun violence and calling for Federal Background Checks on August 18, 2019 in New York City.

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  • National

Premature deaths from guns expose another toll of the firearms crisis

Firearm-related deaths are continuing their rapid rise in the U.S., with a new study finding they have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of "years of potential life lost" due to trauma.

February 23, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Bullet cases are seen on the ground at a crime scene after Mexico City's Public Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch was wounded in an attack, in Mexico City, on June 26, 2020.

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  • World

Mexico's Suit Against U.S. Gun Companies May Seek More Than A Court Win

The Mexican government sued U.S. gun-makers and distributors in federal court for damages caused by illicit firearms. Experts say it's a long shot but the move could ramp up pressure on the U.S.

August 07, 2021
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By:
  • James Fredrick
Armed members of the Black Panther Party leave the Capitol in Sacramento May 2, 1967. The Panthers entered the Capitol fully armed and said they were protesting a bill before the Legislature restricting the carrying of arms in public.

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  • Race

Some Black Americans Buying Guns: 'I'd Rather Go To Trial Than Go To The Cemetery'

As the U.S. faces a fight for racial justice in the aftermath of police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, some Black Americans are considering how they can best protect themselves.

September 27, 2020
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By:
  • Christianna Silva

Dick's Sporting Goods Macon Shoppers React To The Limiting Of Gun Sales

Wednesday morning Dick's Sporting Goods announced it would no longer sell firearms to anyone under 21. They also would stop selling assault-style rifles...

February 28, 2018
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Summer Evans

On Second Thought For Thursday, October 5, 2017

Georgia’s campus carry law allows firearms on all public college campuses, minus a few excepted spaces. We hear about the research into the...

October 05, 2017
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  • Celeste Headlee ,
  • Emily Cureton ,
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