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News Articles: guns

An aerial view of Chicago. In the past few days, at least six high school students in the city have been shot outside their schools.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Their deaths leave holes that will never be filled

A string of shooting deaths of Chicago high-schoolers shocks and saddens, despite a decrease in the city's homicide rate.

February 04, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Simon
C.J. Hurst of West Covina, Calif., holds up a .44-caliber rimfire Model 66 Winchester rifle as he poses with his collection of about 600 antique guns in 1952.

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  • National

In today's gun rights cases, historians are in hot demand. Here's why

The Supreme Court has made history a central test of whether a gun control law is constitutional. That has meant a boom in demand for gun law historians, who are digging up forgotten old gun laws.

February 03, 2024
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
LIV Health's recently opened urgent care clinic is in a high-profile location along one of Wyoming's busiest streets.

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  • National

'We don't want to be first place.' Wyoming tries to address high gun suicide rates

For years, Wyoming has had one of the highest suicide rates and one of the highest gun ownership rates in the United States. But until recently, it was taboo to draw a link between those two things.

January 23, 2024
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
California's new law is already facing all kinds of hurdles in the courts.

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  • Law

A new California law restricts carrying guns in public — testing the Second Amendment

Gun owners in California can no longer carry firearms into a range of locations deemed "sensitive spaces." It is already facing all kinds of hurdles in the courts.

January 04, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • and 1 more
Israeli men, armed with U.S.-made M16 automatic assault rifles, walk in a shopping center in Jerusalem on Oct. 25, amid the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas.

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  • Middle East

Israel is trying to arm more citizens with guns since the Hamas attack

Israel was already known for having lots of firearms. But since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, the Israeli government has moved to loosen gun restrictions and fast-track permits for civilians.

December 06, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
A large selection of used handguns that were traded in from law enforcement officials on display at Clyde Armory in Warner Robins. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current

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  • News

500 new police guns will help failing recruits pass academy, Savannah brass says

Savannah Police says new pistols with red-dot sights will increase accuracy and retention. Will they?

 

October 20, 2023
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By:
  • Jake Shore
The road to the city-run gun range in Albuquerque, N.M. Police think the local culture around guns has changed, and one undercover cop estimates half the cars on the road now carry a firearm.

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  • National

The governor tried banning guns in Albuquerque. The public health emergency continues

N.M. Gov. Michelle Luhan Grisham's temporary ban on guns in the Albuquerque area caused a political firestorm. The ban, since scaled back, faces legal challenges. Meanwhile, shootings haven't stopped.

October 18, 2023
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
A panel speaks about gun violence prevention at the 2023 Congressional Black Caucus' annual legislative conference.

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  • News

Gun violence doesn't discriminate: Quavo and others share their stories

Almost a year after rapper, Takeoff, of the music trio Migos, was shot and killed, Quavo, his band mate and uncle, travels to Washington, D.C. to discuss gun violence prevention.

September 28, 2023
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  • Destinee Adams
Visitors look upon the White House as the U.S. flag flies at half mast following a school shooting in Nashville, Tenn., last March.

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  • Elections

For young Americans, politics breaks the American dream instead of building it

Gen Z and millennial voters should dominate the electorate in coming years. A poll from the Sine Institute, exclusively obtained by NPR, shows how 18- to 34-year-old Americans feel about the future.

September 14, 2023
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By:
  • Elena Moore
Jess Hegstrom, a public health worker for Lewis and Clark County in Montana, tries to start conversations about suicide risk at gun shows. "I'm not here to waggle my finger at you," she says.

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  • Mental Health

Storing guns away from home could reduce suicides, but there are legal hurdles

New ideas like "safe storage maps" show gun owners where to put their firearms in safekeeping if a mental health crisis happens. The idea has support, but obstacles are in the way in some states.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Aaron Bolton
In this 2019 photo, NAAGA members Michael Doyle (left), Casandra Light and Colin Mapp prepare to shoot and review their targets in a gun range in Atlanta.

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  • News

With membership skyrocketing, Black gun group touts 'inalienable' 2A rights for self-defense

Over the weekend,1,500 Black firearm owners attended the first-ever convention of the National Association of African American Gun Owners, or NAAGA, in Atlanta. What's next for the group?

August 01, 2023
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
Handguns are seen for sale in a display case at Metro Shooting Supplies in Bridgeton, Missouri, November 13, 2014. The store has reported an increase in gun sales as the area waits for a grand jury to reach a decision this month on whether to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed the 18-year-old Mike Brown, who was black, on Aug. 9 in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

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  • News

Gun seller quits industry over worries about mass shootings

A Duluth, Ga., gun shop owner closes his business, citing worries about mass shootings.

June 16, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Biello
In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, inspects weapons collected as part of an amnesty near the city of Smederevo, Serbia, Sunday, May 14, 2023.

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  • Europe

Guns, grenades and rocket launchers are among 13,500 weapons surrendered in Serbia

The government declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to surrender unregistered weapons as part of a crackdown on guns following the two shootings this month that left 17 people dead.

May 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a ceremony where Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of bills to strengthen gun laws, June 6, 2022, in New York. James filed a lawsuit Thursday, May 11, 2023 against a gun accessory manufacturer for selling an easily removable magazine lock that can convert a legal weapon into an illegal assault weapon capable of holding high-capacity magazines.

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  • News

New York AG sues Georgia manufacturer over magazine lock used in Buffalo store massacre

New York's attorney general is suing a Georgia gun accessory manufacturer for selling a magazine lock that can be easily removed to attach high-capacity magazines. The magazine lock supplied by Woodstock-based Mean Arms allowed a white gunman to insert multiple 30-round magazines to the AR-15 he used in the racist 2022 Buffalo massacre.

May 11, 2023
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  • Associated Press

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: How can Georgia and the nation better protect children from gun violence?

Thursday on Political Rewind: Host Bill Nigut turns our pre-recorded panel to focus in on gun violence and how we can protect kids in schools.

May 11, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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