In 2010 a three-year-old child was killed because access was gained to a gun safe that contained a handgun. The little boy was the son of a Deputy Sheriff in Vancouver, Washington who had been issued ...

The 9 mm handgun a 6-year-old student used to shoot a teacher at Richneck Elementary School was secured with a trigger lock and kept out of the boy’s reach at the family’s Newport News home, according ...

The plaintiffs sued the city and county of San Francisco in 2009, challenging a 2007 ordinance requiring all handguns to be set on trigger lock. The plaintiffs claim that requiring handguns to be ...

During a wrenching 911 call, the mother of a Pataskala child killed in a Dec. 14 shooting told an emergency dispatcher that her child was shot by a sibling who'd found a loaded weapon. Authorities ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Each year, nearly 1,300 children die from gunshot wounds. Roughly 38 percent of those deaths are ...

An Escambia County veteran believes that if all new firearms were required to have GPS tracking systems that disabled triggers around schools, the country could prevent school shootings. Billy Brent, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Two children under the age of ten accidentally shot themselves in Utah Thursday. One 3-year-old in Murray, and a 9-year-old in Brigham City. Both kids are in stable condition.

According to the American Psychological Association, the United States has the highest rate of gun-related injuries among developed countries. That may come as no surprise to many of us. But a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is launching a new program aimed at promoting gun safety and protecting families and children. As part of the new program, the sheriff’s ...