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The National Rifle Association has released a series of recommendations for improving school safety, with a focus on advising schools on how to train teachers and personnel to carry firearms in case of an emergency.
Recent polls show more than 90 percent of Americans support requiring background checks for firearms purchases at gun shows.
A 22-year-old California man who barricaded himself in his mother's home and is accused of shooting two police officers was found dead Thursday from a self inflicted gunshot wound, police say.
In a senseless and random act of violence, a 10-year-old was shot dead and the youngster's mother and another woman were wounded Monday by a Minnesota man who opened fire on drivers near St. Paul, the Associate Press reports.
Three people are dead and two police officers were injured this morning during a gunfight that ensued inside a Delaware courthouse when a gunman opened fire in the lobby, CBS News reports.
Police say three people were wounded outside a Las Vegas movie theater last night after shots were fired at a nearby parking lot, reports the Associated Press.
Authorities in Denver have released the identities of the mother and two children fatally shot yesterday in what investigators say may be a murder-suicide, according to the El Paso Times.
Police say gun fire erupted in a Denver home today killing one woman, two young children and injuring another, according to an AP report.
A former president of the National Rifle Association said yesterday during a CNN interview that the organization reversed its support for universal background checks because the "the system doesn't work."
Gun stores are reporting shortages of firearms as sales increase ahead of impending gun control legislation working its way through Congress.
President Obama gets tough on gun control in wake of the Newtown school massacre releasing 23 executive actions and nominating an ATF director.
"Meet the Press" anchor David Gregory is off the hook and will not face any charges after showing a gun magazine on the weekly news show.
President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday he hopes to get new U.S. gun control measures passed during the first year of his second term and is skeptical of a proposal by the National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby to put armed guards in schools.
More than 200 teachers arrived to take a gun training course in Utah, spurred to take up arms in their schools after the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
The leading U.S. pro-gun group, the National Rifle Association, has vowed to fight a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global arms trade and dismissed suggestions that a recent U.S. school shooting bolstered the case for such a pact.
