Guns

The Culver City City Council approved the purchase of a decades-old gun business in an effort to prevent another gun shop from taking its spot.

With an unanimous vote, Culver City Council approved the purchase of the Martin B. Retting gun store. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News on Sept. 27, 2023.

Senator Catherine Blakespear, a Democrat from Encinitas, authored the bill which she believes will help reduce gun violence in the state. 

Ring video captured cries for help during what police are calling an attempted kidnapping in Miami Sunday morning.

Firearms advocates filed a lawsuit in San Diego federal court this week challenging California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases.

Authorities have shared new information on a pair of shootings Tuesday that left four people dead in Bowdoin, Maine, and three more hospitalized, one critically injured, on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care to reduce suicides in the military, but held off on endorsing more controversial recommendations to restrict gun and ammunition purchases.

President Joe Biden visited Southern California Tuesday to sign an executive order on gun sales background checks. The president was scheduled to sign the order in the San Gabriel Valley community of Monterey Park, where 11 people were killed a nine were wounded in a mass shooting during a night of Lunar New Year events. Below is the full text…

President Biden will be visiting Monterey Park, the scene of a mass shooting that killed 11 people The president is expected to call for tougher gun control. Lauren Coronado reports for Today in LA on March 14, 2023.

Police discovered a cache of weapons in a hospital closet, and the man facing charges for it is the hospital marketing director. Anjali Hemphill reports.

Police responding to a bomb threat at a New Jersey hospital discovered a massive weapons cache hidden inside an employee’s unlocked closet that contained more than three dozen firearms, according to police.

Burbank City Council approved a moratorium that would not allow any new gun stores to open in the city for the next 45 days, drawing support and criticism from the community.

Burbank City Council says they’re trying to keep everyone safe, but local gun stores are not happy about the moratorium on opening new gun stores in the city, Anoushah Rasta reports July 27, 2022.

A 13-year-old was arrested Monday after Boston police made a traffic stop and discovered the underage driver with a loaded gun, according to police. Police said officers with the Youth Violence Strike Force tried to pull over a vehicle on Columbia Road when they realized the registration and vehicle did not match. At first the driver refused to stop, according…

The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier.

The gun safety legislation makes changes to background checks for young gun buyers and increases funding for mental health programs.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday that he is “comfortable” with the contours of a bipartisan deal on gun legislation and will back it if the measure “ends up reflecting what the framework indicates.”  “I’m comfortable with the framework and if the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicates, I’ll be supporting” it, McConnell said. The powerful Republican’s...

A 2-year old boy fatally shot his father in an accident after finding a gun, and the boy’s mother is now facing criminal charges, authorities in Florida said Monday