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Court documents show the white St. Louis couple who became internationally famous for standing guard with guns outside their mansion during a protest have pulled a weapon before in defense of their property.

The FBI has arrested two men in Queens who were allegedly trying to be at least five guns. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Background checks required to buy firearms have spiked to record numbers in the past month, fueled by a run on guns from Americans panicked about their safety during the coronavirus crisis.

Gun sales have been on the rise with the largest year-over-year spike since 2016.

An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing with her grandfather, who is supporting a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits

A man arrested outside a New Jersey elementary school last year with a gun and more than 100 rounds of ammunition was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison

Letitia James argued that posting the blueprints would allow anyone to go online and use the downloadable files to create unregistered and untraceable assault-style weapons that could be difficult to detect

Gun-rights activists — some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles — descended on Virginia’s capital city Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation.

State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that’s expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond.

A gun-rights group wants the Virginia Supreme Court to block a ban on firearms at their Monday rally at the state Capitol.

The three men were believed to be planning to attend the pro-gun rally planned for Monday in Richmond, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Travelers around New York City brought more guns of the airport in 2019 than they did the previous year — and the number nationwide has been increasing for the past several years, according to the Transportation Security Administration. TSA agents at Newark International Airport, JFK, LaGuardia and Long Island Airport stopped 27 guns from going through the checkpoints last year,…

For the first time since the violent attacks at his home on Hanukkah, a rabbi is addressing the recent spree of anti-Semitic violence in New York.

A man who used to be part of the elite Israeli Defense Forces teach them about using guns to help keep their synagogue and community safe in the wake of anti-Semitic attacks in the region. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

The rabbi who survived the attack that left others inside his home injured had a simple message in his first public address since the Hanukkah stabbing: Hope over hate. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A man arrested outside a New Jersey elementary school last year with a gun and more than 100 rounds of ammunition has plead guilty to state charges, authorities said Monday. On a Thursday afternoon last June, Westfield Police Department patrol officers and detectives responded to Tamaques Elementary School on a report from the New Castle County Police Department in Delaware…

Owners of electric vehicles in a number of states will start seeing fees to pay for road repairs in the new year. At least eight states will begin charging new or higher registration fees Wednesday for electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids. The new fees mean that, for the first time, a majority of states will assess special fees on gas-free...

A bail hearing for a man whose number was found in the pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week’s fatal attack on a Jewish market was halted after prosecutors said they had evidence he was selling firearms from his pawn shop

The investigation into the deadly Jersey City shootout continues as a pawn shop worker, whose number appeared in the pockets of one of the suspects, appeared in court Wednesday. Brian Thompson reports.

The brother of a New Jersey man whose number was found in the back pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week’s fatal attack on a Jewish market has denied any connection to the suspects, as well as allegations that they sell guns at their family’s pawn shop. Ahmed A-Hady, of Keyport, 35, appeared in court Monday after...