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A surge in Black Friday gun sales has the FBI very busy processing a record number of requests for background checks. More than 203,000 background checks were requested for gun purchases on Friday. It’s the biggest single day record, which beat last year’s record by 15,000. Actual gun sales were likely higher because buyers may […]

A bidder driving the offer up identified themselves as Tamir Rice. And the top bidder's online name appeared to be "Racist McShootface."

"I am honored and humbled to announce the sale of an American firearm icon. The firearm for sale is the firearm that was used to defend my life and end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin," he said in the description.

Republicans are hoping to bring more than patriotic posters and American flags into the Republican National Convention: They want to tote guns, too. In an…

The first arrest has been made in this month’s Kansas shooting that took the lives of three people and injured 14 others. ABC News reports that Sarah Hopkins, 28, was arrested Thursday for providing guns to Kansas shooter Cedric Larry Ford, who opened fire at his job at Excel Industries in Hesston last week. The two […]

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Nathan Barksdale, the Baltimore drug lord and inspiration behind HBO's hit series The Wire, has died.

Shaun Mouzon seeks more than $1.2 million in damages. Around the same time he announced the federal lawsuit, the gun charges were dropped.

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For militia leader Ammon Bundy, the goal of the armed occupation is to force the government's hand in turning over federal land to ranchers and miners.

Emanuel and Interim Chicago Police Supt. John Escalante on Wednesday are slated to announce a "'de-escalation' approach to handling potential conflicts and standoffs, including making sure every 'operational' on-duty officer is equipped with a Taser."

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Police took Rothenberg into custody without incident, later charging her with first-degree threatening, seven counts of reckless endangerment and interfering with police and second-degree breach of peace.