More Americans own guns for personal protection than ever before, a new survey shows. Gun sales surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, as did gun-related deaths. In 2021, 48,830 people died from ...

Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet remains lodged ...

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Friday, June 21 brought the U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Rahimi, a Texas case which offered to provide better insight into how the rights to possess and own guns conferred by the ...

A lot of gun owners talk about “self-defense law” like it’s a feeling. Like if you felt threatened, that’s the end of it. In real cases, it’s almost never that simple. What matters is what you can ...

The idea of the law-abiding armed citizen—ready, vigilant, and prepared to defend against an imminent threat—is a common ...

Sunny Vespico Jackson, an RN and Penn Medicine trauma and injury prevention coordinator (right), worked to obtain gun safes to hand out for free in the community Nov. 18, 2024. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) ...

The Protection of Lawful Commerce Arms Act, which was signed into law in 2005 by President George W. Bush, is still the biggest obstacle to passing federal gun regulations in the U.S.. That was the ...