RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Like the Constitution itself, the laws governing firearms are a tug of war between the feds and the states. Gun control, meanwhile, is proving to be an almost impossible ...

Alabama continues to have some of the worst gun laws and rates of gun death in the country, according to an annual report from GIFFORDS Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The report ranked Alabama at ...

States with permissive gun laws experienced a rise in pediatric deaths from firearm injuries between 2011 and 2023, whereas states with stricter laws did not. That's according to a new study published ...

Firearms are now the leading cause of death in children and teens in the U.S. A new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found that over 7,000 more children died from firearm-related injuries in ...

Researchers looked at firearm fatalities in the 13 years immediately after the Supreme Court limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership. By Roni Caryn Rabin Firearm deaths of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A new study by JAMA Pediatrics finds that states that loosened gun laws in the past decade saw a sharp rise in gun-related deaths in children. The study looked at the years following ...

Gun violence has been the leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the U.S. since 2020. Now research shows that, since 2010, these rates have increased in states with permissive firearm ...

Federal action has been slow, but laws have been passed at the state level. — -- Shannon Watts, a mother of five who became a gun control activist in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook ...

Firearms deaths among children and adolescents aged 0 to 17 grew in states with the most permissive gun laws, says a study There were 6,029 excess gun deaths among children between 2011 and 2023 in ...

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In mid-April, Kansas passed a law asserting that federal gun regulations do not apply to guns made and owned in Kansas. Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell semi-automatic weapons ...

Gun deaths among children have risen over a 13-year period in states with lax firearm laws, according to a new study published this week in JAMA Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Alabama, ...