More than 6,000 guns have been surrendered in Australia's most populous state in just one month, police said Tuesday, after fears of terrorism and an influx of illegal firearms sparked a national amnesty. The government said in June it believed there were as many as ...
Fire investigators say gunfire caused a wildfire near Yosemite National Park that destroyed 131 structures, including 63 homes, last month. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Friday that a gun fired on public lands caused the wildfire, which burned 127 square miles ...
A man opened fire outside the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life, police said. The man, a Chinese citizen, fired "multiple rounds" at the consulate building in the Koreatown neighborhood, said a ...
Sitting in a classroom above a gun range, a woman hesitantly says she isn't sure she could ever shoot and kill someone, even to protect herself. Couldn't she just aim for their leg and try to maim them? Her instructor says self-defense is not about ...
The United States celebrated Independence Day with a long weekend of barbecues and fireworks, but in violence-plagued Chicago more than 101 were hit by gunfire, with 14 dying of their wounds, the Chicago Tribune said on Wednesday. The youngest of the victims was just 13 ...
A doctor who lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault rifle inside the building Friday, killing another physician and wounding six other people before taking his own life, officials said. The gunman, wearing a white medical lab coat, ...
Students and professors were to be legally allowed to carry concealed handguns on college campuses starting Saturday in the state of Kansas. The concealed carry law was enacted four years ago and applied to all public buildings, but colleges in the Midwestern state were exempted ...
German prosecutors said on Wednesday they were investigating a 14-year-old boy suspected of shooting plastic bullets from a toy gun at the King of Thailand who was cycling near Munich this month. The king was not hurt. The unidentified youth, together with a 13-year-old who ...
A series of incidents over the past few years have raised concerns the U.S. military on Okinawa is failing to securely manage its weapons in the prefecture.
Fears of terrorism and an influx of illegal guns prompted Australia Friday to announce the first national firearms amnesty since 35 people were killed in a mass shooting 20 years ago. The government believes there are as many as 260,00 illicit weapons on the streets, ...
The gunman who shot a top GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside Washington had a long history of lashing out at Republicans, and recently frightened a neighbor by firing a rifle into a field behind his Illinois home. James ...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott joked about shooting journalists while visiting a gun range on Friday to sign a bill lowering the cost of a handgun license, drawing criticism from gun-safety and free-press advocates who called his remarks "dangerous." Abbott signed the bill at an indoor ...
