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American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.

5 Charged With Trafficking Guns From North Carolina to Eastern Cities

By Michael Clements The arrest of five people has effectively shut down an alleged gun trafficking operation that armed criminals in Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, the District of...

The secret weapon ATF uses against Louisville’s gun violence

WLKY is learning more about the role the ATF plays in getting guns off the streets after two recent multi-agency busts recovered nearly 200 firearms around Louisville.

Texas Men Now Charged in Insidious Scheme to Supply Arms to the Sinaloa Cartel

New documents show how a retail chain’s sales practices helped put guns on US streets

The public release of the records is part of a legal settlement with a Wisconsin-based company accused of negligence for selling guns that were later used in crimes.

Two Canadian Men Plead Guilty in Illegal Firearms Export Case

(WNY News Now) – Two Quebec men have pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally export firearms and other defense-related items from the United States to destinations including Duba...

Anti-Gun Virginia Senator Louise Lucas Indicted in Drug Trafficking Case Involving Firearms

Virginia gun-control champion Louise Lucas has been indicted in a federal racketeering and marijuana trafficking case. Prosecutors allege she used her Senate position to protect a...

Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Ban on Interstate Handgun Purchases

The Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal government cannot prohibit lawful Americans from directly purchasing handguns across state lines, holding that the right to keep arms neces...

Thai crackdown on gun violence challenged by glut of firearms

Appeals Court Rules Federal Ban on Interstate Handgun Sales Unconstitutional

By Jill McLaughlin The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2–1 against the federal government’s ban on interstate transfers of handguns on Sept. 18, finding the nearly 60-year-old...

What We Learned About American Teenagers Supplying Guns to Cartels

Our reporting revealed how Mexican criminal groups are relying on teenagers and young adults in border states like Arizona to help supply their weapons.

Feds say man imported devices to make automatic firearms

An indictment unsealed Monday in federal court charges a city man with importing devices that can be used to turn a semiautomatic gun into an automatic one.

Four accused of breaking into Georgia shipping facilities to steal 1,486 firearms

Four people have been accused of stealing nearly 1,500 guns from shipping facilities in Georgia as part of a larger gang-related drug and firearms trafficking scheme. On October 6,...

Rochester and North Carolina Men Plead Guilty in Gun Trafficking Conspiracy

(WNY News Now) – A Rochester man and a North Carolina man have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a firearms trafficking conspiracy involving weapons transported to We...

First Circuit Asks Massachusetts: How Many Handguns Can You Ban Before It’s a Ban?

First Circuit judges questioned how many commonly owned handguns Massachusetts may exclude from dealer shelves before its regulatory roster becomes an unconstitutional ban.

CMV traffic stop leads to discovery of 174 handguns with scratched serial numbers & massive bundles of heroin

A routine traffic stop on a semi truck led to the discovery of 174 defaced firearms and 368 pounds of heroin in Michigan this week.  The discovery occurred on Interstate 69 near Ma...

Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Ban on Interstate Handgun Sales

A divided Fifth Circuit panel has ruled that the federal laws blocking a direct handgun sale to an out-of-state buyer violate the Second Amendment. The September 18 opinion in Elit...

New York Tracked Gun Owner for 15 Months After Online Purchases

Legal purchases of a 3D printer, Glock springs, and a New York-compliant magazine reportedly put Demetrio Daga on a government-generated target list. After 15 months of surveillanc...

Police Armed Gangs With Guns Marked for Destruction—Now South Africa Leads UN Gun Control

Corrupt South African police officials supplied criminal gangs with firearms taken from government stores and marked for destruction. Now, South Africa is presiding over the Arms T...

A New Trump Rule Could Transform Gun Sales. The President’s Son Is Poised to Profit.

The Trump administration has spent much of this year rewriting the federal government’s approach to guns. Just last month, the Justice Department concluded that the ban on selling...

Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violates Second Amendment

So held Elite Precision Customs L.L.C. v. BATFE, decided today by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Kurt Engelhardt;… The post Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State...

ED grants month-long illegal gun amnesty

Brighton MuronzereyiCHIEF WRITERPRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted a month-long firearms amnesty, giving individuals and institutions until November 12 to voluntarily surrend...

'Instead of Enforcing the Law': Dem Connecticut Faces 2A Court Fight with Major Gun Maker for Banning Popular Pistol

Glock and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) sued to block Connecticut’s ban on the manufacturer’s popular pistols Monday. Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed...

Questions rise for selling gun suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns

a federal judge declared certain elements of the National Firearms Act unconstitutional – including registration requirements on suppressors, short-barreled rifles and short-barrel...