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

Federal authorities have charged a 55 year old Indiana man with illegally selling dozens of handguns and assault rifles in the Chicago area. Investigators say Wayne Adam Tucker of Albion, Indiana has been charged with one count of dealing firearms without a license, and one count of distribution of a controlled substance. During a brief court appearance in federal court…

Federal authorities have charged a 55 year old Indiana man with illegally selling dozens of handguns and assault rifles in the Chicago area. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers has the story.

In a giant blue, white, and gold vehicle the size of a semi-trailer truck, technician Summer Dawkins peers into a microscope. “I’m looking at any striations, or firing pin drag marks,” she said, slowly rotating a gleaming shell cartridge in the microscope’s bluish light. Crime scene veterans know that shell casings like that often litter the scenes of some...

In tonight’s NBC 5 Investigates, Phil Rogers gives us an inside glimpse at an incredible mobile crime lab helping agencies fight gun violence in the city of Chicago.

A 5-year-old was trapped inside a large gun safe in Howard County, Maryland, on Tuesday and needed to be rescued by the fire department.

NOW NBC 5 INVESTIGATES:
FATHER MICHAEL PFLEGER SAYS THE GUN VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO IS THE WORST HE’S EVER SEEN.
PFLEGER WITNESSED THE AFTERMATH LAST NIGHT.
TONIGHT: HE SAYS THINGS MUST CHANGE.
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PHIL ROGERS HAS MORE FROM THE LIVE DESK…PHIL.
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Two years ago, St. Sabinia pastor Michael Pfleger was so appalled at gun violence in Chicago that he led a march that shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway. “And we don’t see any change in these neighborhoods now — nothing,” Pfleger told NBC 5. “I can’t see one thing in this neighborhood that’s been done that gives me hope.”...

Court documents show the white St. Louis couple who became internationally famous for standing guard with guns outside their mansion during a protest have pulled a weapon before in defense of their property.

Background checks required to buy firearms have spiked to record numbers in the past month, fueled by a run on guns from Americans panicked about their safety during the coronavirus crisis.

Gun sales have been on the rise with the largest year-over-year spike since 2016.

An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing with her grandfather, who is supporting a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits

The man was walking near Madison and Michigan when he says a suspect approached him from behind with a gun.

Gun-rights activists — some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles — descended on Virginia’s capital city Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation.

State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that’s expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond.

A gun-rights group wants the Virginia Supreme Court to block a ban on firearms at their Monday rally at the state Capitol.

The three men were believed to be planning to attend the pro-gun rally planned for Monday in Richmond, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Owners of electric vehicles in a number of states will start seeing fees to pay for road repairs in the new year. At least eight states will begin charging new or higher registration fees Wednesday for electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids. The new fees mean that, for the first time, a majority of states will assess special fees on gas-free...

A bail hearing for a man whose number was found in the pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week’s fatal attack on a Jewish market was halted after prosecutors said they had evidence he was selling firearms from his pawn shop

The brother of a New Jersey man whose number was found in the back pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week’s fatal attack on a Jewish market has denied any connection to the suspects, as well as allegations that they sell guns at their family’s pawn shop. Ahmed A-Hady, of Keyport, 35, appeared in court Monday after...