Gun Deaths

Marjorie Taylor Greene, among others, questioned the effectiveness of gun control in Blue states following Uvalde. Newsweek's Fact Check team explores the claim.

A nude man was shot dead by a husband after he tackled the man's 67-year-old wife off her lawnmower as she cut the grass on Thursday afternoon, police said.

The 14-year-old's mother told police that, while she was aware her son was ordering gun parts off of the internet, she did not know he had access to ammunition.

"Life-saving measures were unsuccessful," officers reported after finding the boy "critically injured" at a residence Saturday evening.

The recently elected mayor had moved to Hyattsville in 2014 after he and his husband adopted their two sons.

Chicago police also reported that 2021's total homicide count for the city, 797, is more than in any year since 1996.

In what is likely to be a racially charged trial, the jury will decide in the fate of defendants Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and William Bryan.

An FBI report showed homicides among people ages 19 and younger rose more than 21 percent in 2020.

The woman's co-workers saw a toddler suddenly appear in the background of her video feed. They then heard a loud noise and saw the woman fall over.

A record 353 people died from gunshot wounds in Iowa last year, including both homicides and suicides, an Iowa Department of Public Health spokeswoman said.

Ohio police are still searching for a second robber who fled the scene on foot after the shooting happened.

I had driven Shane to San Diego International Airport on the morning of September 2, 2018. We hugged outside the terminal, he gave me a kiss on the cheek and said goodbye. That was the last time I would see my beautiful son alive.

Researchers have published a study investigating the prevalence of firearms in California, the types and numbers of weapons people owned, and their reasons for having them.

Nearly one-fifth of all people living in the United States who died at the hands of a firearm since 1999 were killed over a three-year period.

"Australia has strict gun laws and they still own guns AND the country is safe from unnecessary gun violence. See how that works?"

The background checks bill is a critical first step towards ending our gun violence crisis.

James Shaw Jr., 29, reportedly disarmed the gunman who used an assault rifle to kill four people at a Tennessee Waffle House on Sunday.

The filmmaker wants to repeal the Second Amendment. And he's not the only one.

There have been 244 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2017 thus far.

The U.S. outranked China, Japan, Germany and the U.K.—combined—in firearm assaults.

No one talks about it, but most victims of firearm violence are those who shoot themselves.

The number of average mass shootings per year more than doubled between 2000 and 2013, the study found