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Days after her teenage son was shot and killed in the Chicago suburbs, a grieving mother is asking anyone with information about the shooting to come forward. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

The mother of a teenager shot and killed in suburban Des Planes is asking anyone with information about the shooting to come forward.

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.

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.

What exactly are so-called “ghost guns”, how are they made, and why did Illinois ban them? Here’s what to know.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed into law legislation that bans so-called “ghost guns” across Illinois, making it the first Midwest state to do so.

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.

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...

President Joe Biden on Monday announced new actions to get untraceable guns off the streets, two days after the Illinois legislature passed a bill to eliminate so-called ghost guns. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

According to a report, Chicago police confiscated 455 ghost guns in 2021.

Sandra Torres has more.

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.