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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.

California’s breach of personal information for hundreds of thousands of gun owners earlier this year was the result of poor training and lack of technical expertise. A report released Wednesday by the California Department of Justice found the breach was not intentional. Investigators said names, addresses and birthdays of 192,000 people who applied for concealed carry permits were downloaded 2,734...

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.

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

Daniel Defense, a Georgia gun manufacturer, will not attend the National Rifle Association convention in Texas because of the mass shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde.

Gun control measures are likely going nowhere in Congress, and they also have become increasingly scarce in most states.

In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, politicians on both sides of the aisle have lobbed angry barbs about gun policies — including Beto O’Rourke’s angry confrontation of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a news conference. While some say that now isn’t the time for politics, NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky explains why politics is...

In 2021, Texas passed a package of gun laws that declared the state a “Second Amendment sanctuary state” and loosened restrictions on carrying handguns in public, among other changes. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker explains.

California senators have approved giving people the power to sue those who traffic in illegal firearms, mimicking a Texas law that is intended to deter abortions. They acted hours after Tuesday’s deadly elementary school shooting in Texas.

The shooter who killed at least 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school used a type of gun that has previously been used in several high-profile mass shootings in recent history.

Gun thefts are up, in part because many more guns are being stolen from cars. “States are not passing laws that require those guns to be stored safely,” and gun purchases are up overall in the last few years, leading to this spike, says Allison Anderman, senior counsel at Giffords.

Federal agents say they are ceasing pistols rigged as automatic weapons on a scale they’ve never seen before. NBC 7’s Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more.

The illegal devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns go by many names: switches, auto-sears, bump stocks, and more. The effect is the same; a weapon that only fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled can now unload all the bullets in its clip by holding down the trigger.

NBC 7 Investigates the devices that are being seized in record numbers.

For under $100, you can buy all the parts for a “ghost gun,” a difficult-to-trace firearm made from parts without serial numbers. The Biden Administration plans to crack down on ghost guns, which make up a small but increasing portion of the guns seized at crime scenes. The fact that ghost guns were made at all is a sign of...

For months, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been building a case that ultimately traced nearly 300 firearms purchased in Georgia.

Even in California, home to some of the nation’s strictest firearms laws, a bill requiring parents to tell school officials if they keep guns in the house went too far to move ahead in the Legislature