Gun Safety

Firearm safety and education are two top goals for Elbert Gray, as an East Hartford gun store owner, and he wants to ensure the public understands both the responsibilities and ramifications that come with owning a gun.

Through February, we are highlighting community leaders working to make a difference. It’s a part of our “Connecticut in Color” Series. Firearm safety and education are two top goals for Elbert Gray and he wants to ensure the public understands both the responsibilities and ramifications of gun ownership. Gray is the owner of E.L.G. Firearms Service and Instruction and...

The parents of a Connecticut teenager who accidentally shot himself to death at a friend’s home are hoping the new Democratic-controlled Congress will pass a federal law requiring gun owners to store their firearms in secure containers to prevent children from harming themselves.

Retired Bishop Jim Curry has honed a new skill. “Part of our responsibility as the blacksmiths and toolmakers is to keep this going,” said Curry, heating up metal in a 2,500-degree forger. “It’s thousands of years old. It’s pretty basic,” said Curry. “You use a hammer against hot metal to reshape it. You use a hammer and an anvil.”...

A group called Swords to Plowshares is taking old guns taken during buyback events and turns them into garden tools and other useful items.

A 5-year-old was trapped inside a large gun safe in Howard County, Maryland, on Tuesday and needed to be rescued by the fire department.

When gunmakers and dealers gather this week in Las Vegas for the industry’s largest annual conference, they will be grappling with slumping sales and a shift in politics that many didn’t envision two years ago when gun-friendly Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress took office. Some of the top priorities for the industry — expanding the reach of concealed carry...

A year ago, the nation’s most powerful gun lobby was riding high: The millions the National Rifle Association had spent to help elect Donald Trump, one of the nation’s most gun-friendly presidents, had paid off, and members were hopeful that more firearms restrictions would soon be eased. Oh, how things have changed. In the last 12 months, Americans have witnessed...

Hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrated at Saturday’s “March for Our Lives” rally in Washington, D.C., with a message for politicians who fail to tighten the nation’s gun laws: “Vote them out.” “Stand for us, or beware, the voters are coming,” Cameron Kasky, a now prominent figure in the student-led movement from Parkland, Florida, shouted from the stage in front...

A key House committee on Wednesday approved a Republican bill to expand gun owners’ rights — the first gun legislation since mass shootings in Las Vegas and Texas killed more than 80 people....
On a party-line vote, the Judiciary Committee backed a bill that would allow gun owners with a state-issued concealed carry permit to carry a handgun in any state...

Some experts say domestic violence is a common thread in mass shootings. Mildred Muhammad, D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad’s ex-wife, said she knows about the connection first-hand.

Sunday evening’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern U.S. history, highlighted Nevada’s stark partisan divide that has made it a flashpoint in the nation’s debate on gun rights, NBC News reported. Both parties have spent millions trying to tighten or loosen gun laws. The state has relatively light restrictions, with no permit requirements to buy handguns, rifles...

During the first six months of this year, minors died from accidental shootings – at their own hands, or at the hands of other children or adults – at a pace of one every other day, far more than limited federal statistics indicate.