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In the fall of 2020, the Denton Police Department assembled a gun violence task force to address the increase in violent crimes using guns in the city, and now passing the half-year mark of the initiative, Denton police report collecting 156 guns and disrupting several other illegal activities.

The Dallas Police Association is joining statewide police associations, police chiefs, and firearm safety experts to announce their collective opposition to the carry of firearms without a permit during a press conference at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday.

When it comes to ‘red flag’ laws in Texas, laws aimed to allow judges to temporarily seize an individual’s firearms if that person is considered an imminent threat, one group says it’s something they’ve been working on the state level. Meanwhile, some argue people could abuse such a law. NBC 5 reporter Sophia Beausoleil takes a look at the...

Officers arrested a Mesquite High School student after the student was found to have a handgun and illegal drugs on campus Tuesday, police say.

Efforts to impose restrictions on firearms will soon have a supporter in the White House.

Walmart has reversed course, announcing it is returning ammunition and firearms to their displays in its U.S. stores.

On Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced the man who sold the AR-15 used to gun down 32 people in Midland and Odessa, Texas last year has pleaded guilty to a gun crime.

On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox announced the man who sold the AR-15 used to gun down 32 people in Midland and Odessa, Texas last year has pleaded guilty to a gun crime.

A third man has been charged with gun crimes after stealing firearms from a Dallas gun range, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox said.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Sports Shooting Foundation are offering a reward for information about a burglary in which 46 firearms were stolen in Dallas.

The number of background checks for firearms in the month of April remained high amid fears from the coronavirus pandemic.

YouTube has updated its policies regarding videos featuring firearms. The company will now prohibit videos made to sell certain firearms and firearm accessories, as well as videos that demonstrate how to manufacture or install certain types of accessories, such as bump stocks, high-capacity magazines and silencers.

A man was charged Monday with providing the gun used to kill two Ohio policemen, as the officers’ bodies were escorted in a procession to funeral homes in the suburban community they served. Gerald Lawson, 30, of suburban Cleveland, is accused of buying the handgun for shooting suspect Quentin Smith last summer. Smith gave Lawson the money to buy the...

A Florida high school student captured the sounds of gunfire erupting nearby while hiding in a classroom.

Devin Patrick Kelley, the shooter who killed 26 people in a Texas church, was court-martialed in 2014 while in the Air Force for domestic assault after he beat and choked his wife and fractured his infant stepson’s skull. He also sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, authorities said. He’s not the first mass shooter with links to domestic violence....

An Army sergeant who worked as a military recruiter has admitted he funneled dozens of assault weapons to a Mexican cartel last year with the help of other soldiers.

According to federal prosecutors a $3 million lottery winner pleaded guilty to using his prize to invest in a crystal meth ring, NBC News reported. Ronnie Music Jr., 45, bought the drugs with his 2015 winnings and wanted to supply them to others who would resell them at a profit, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...