Guns & Weapons

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it violated the Second Amendment.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released a report Wednesday saying its agents confiscated 6,678 firearms at airport checkpoints in 2024.

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.

The man arrested Monday in connection to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was allegedly in possession of a type of homemade weapon known as a “ghost gun.”

A man concealed items inside shipping containers in Long Beach that were bound for North Korea, federal authorities say.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office is turning to Florida’s red flag law to take weapons away from a Pompano Beach man who started a gunfight with deputies last week. Scott Simonelli, 51, remains hospitalized after he suffered gunshot wounds in the encounter with law enforcement. Authorities said Simonelli fired shots at his neighbor’s apartment, then reportedly turned the gun on...

The Broward Sheriff’s Office is turning to Florida’s red flag law to take weapons away from a Pompano Beach man who started a gun fight with deputies last week. NBC6’s Marissa Bagg reports

A new national divide is emerging among states over whether to track sales by gun stores.