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Connecticut Schools Grapple With Ongoing Violence and Threats
“It was pretty scary. Something that a parent doesn’t want to hear,” Jennifer, a parent of two Hamden High School students who asked us not to use her last name, told NBC Connecticut News on Friday. Hamden High School closed Friday after school officials said they were made aware of a threat of potential gun violence. “Trust me, no...
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Texas Boy, 3, Dies After Accidentally Shooting Himself in the Chest at Birthday Party
A Texas child is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the chest during his birthday party, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
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White Mich. Couple Charged After Gun Pulled on Black Family
A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan
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Man Cleaning Gun Fatally Shoots Best Friend in Apparent Accident
A man playing a video game in a mobile home in the Oklahoma City suburb of Midwest City was fatally shot Sunday, apparently in an accident, by his best friend who was cleaning a gun, police said.
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TSA Agents Find More Guns Than Ever at Airports Nationwide
Transportation Security Administration agents are finding more guns than ever before in carry-on bags at airport checkpoints nationwide, according to TSA data obtained by NBC 7 Investigates.
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76 Guns Collected at Gun Buy Back Event in Hartford
Dozens of people dropped off their unwanted firearms at the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity in Hartford Saturday. In return, people got a gift card to Stop and Shop. “They have these guns in the house… There’s no avenue to get rid of them, you can’t sell a gun on Craigslist or Facebook, you can’t throw them...
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Loaded Gun Found in Backpack of Hartford High School Student
An 18-year-old University High School student was arrested Friday after campus security found a loaded gun in his backpack, according to police.
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Gilroy Garlic Festival Turns Deadly After Gunman Opens Fire
Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
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Suspect Confesses to Killing 5 With Dad's Gun: Sheriff
A young man from Louisiana has confessed to killing his parents, his girlfriend, and two of her family members who had taken him in after he was kicked out of his house, authorities said Tuesday. Dakota Theriot, 21, told authorities he used a gun he stole from his father, Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard said at a news conference.
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I-Team: U.S. Olympic Squad Partners With Gun Website That Hosts Nazi Product Ads
The Anti-Defamation League is blasting the U.S. Olympic Shooting organization for partnering with firearms auction website Gunbroker.com which the I-Team discovered is also hosting sales of Holocaust relics and concentration camp memorabilia.
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Convicted Felons Found With Gun, Drugs in Car in West Haven: PD
Police have arrested two men who they said are convicted felons after they were found with a gun and drugs in a car in West Haven on Tuesday.
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Man Kills Self at Hoffman's Gun Range in Newington: Police
A 29-year-old man died by suicide at Hoffman’s Gun Center in Newington on Wednesday morning, according to police.
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Man Found With Stolen Gun in Hartford: Police
Hartford Police have arrested a man after they say he was found with a stolen gun in a parking lot early Saturday morning.
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Fellow Designers, Celebrities Mourn Kate Spade's Suicide on Social Media
Hundreds of people — including fellow designers and celebrities — took to social media to mourn the death of fashion icon Kate Spade on Tuesday as news of the 55-year-old’s apparent suicide spread.
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Kate Spade Found Dead of Apparent Suicide in Park Avenue Apartment
Fashion icon Kate Spade has been found dead of an apparent suicide in her Manhattan home, law enforcement sources tell News 4. She was 55.
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Dancing FBI Agent Accidentally Shoots Man After Backflip
An unidentified FBI agent accidentally shot a man in the leg after his gun fell out of his holster during a blackflip at a Denver nightclub.
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2 Injured in Hartford Crash; 2 Injured in Shooting Blocks Away
Hartford police are investigating a serious car crash and a shooting that occurred just moments apart and blocks away from each other Tuesday night.
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Gunshot at Georgia School Reignites Debate on Arming Teachers
Police say they don’t know why a popular Social Studies teacher, Jesse Randal Davidson, allegedly fired a handgun inside his classroom, causing a chaotic lockdown and evacuation of his Georgia high school. But it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed. Dalton High School teacher Jesse Randal Davidson is accused of barricading himself inside a classroom...
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Gun Enthusiast Destroys Prized Firearm to Protest Gun Violence, Challenges Others to Do Same
A Southern California man, fed up with the growing number of mass shootings across the U.S., decided to do his part to help end gun violence by destroying his AR-15, NBC affiliate WFLA reported.
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In Response to Far Right, LGBTQ Gun Group Hits Firing Line
Lore McSpadden never touched a gun before the Trigger Warning Queer & Trans Gun Club started this past year. Now McSpadden is among the shooters routinely yelling, “Pull!” and blasting at clay pigeons angling over a mowed field near Rochester. Trigger Warning members are anxious about armed and organized extremists who seem increasingly emboldened. Their response has a touch of...