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NEW YORK Ronald B. Turk, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' , New York Field Division today releases aggregate trace data for crime guns recovered in New York State for calendar year 2008.

Lawmakers are thinking about possibly pushing for new gun legislation in Tennessee after the recent murder of Steve McNair and death of Sahel Kazemi.

Comprehensive regulation of gun sellers appears to reduce the trafficking of guns to criminals, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A fourth victim - all employees of a Catawba fireworks company - has died from wounds in Saturday's fireworks explosion on Ocracoke Island.

Five people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, four of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks.

Posted by David Hardy 4 July 2009 01:58 PM David Codrea has the story, here . Short version: Albert Kwan is a legit machine gun collector.

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors.

TOPICS Right Wing Violence Back in 2004, someone sent a letter bomb to Don Logan , the director of the Office of Diversity and Dialogue in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld the aggravated murder convictions & death sentence of James Trimble for the 2005 shooting deaths of his girlfriend, her seven-year-old son, and a Kent State University student who he had taken hostage while fleeing the scene from police.

A self-professed hit man is expected to appear in court today after federal agents arrested him Monday in a sting operation in which he accepted cash to kill a grand jury witness.

Two federal agencies on Tuesday joined forces to reduce gun-related violence at the U.S.-Mexico border and throughout the country.

The firearms industry is responding to allegations that Houston stores have become the primary source for Mexican drug cartel weapons by renting dozens of billboards around the city warning that customers who fraudulently purchase guns for others face prison time.

A Brownsville man was arrested for making false statements while purchasing firearms, which where later seized by authorities in Mexico, court documents show.

Detectives, acting on information about drugs and explosives in a Lakeland area home brought in their SWAT team and combined forces with the Federal ATF agents and Florida State Fire Marshals agents to execute a search warrant of the home.

Federal agents and state police troopers with guns drawn took several suspects into custody during an afternoon bust Thursday at a busy Smithfield Township intersection.

Federal weapons charges against McDonald County white supremacist Robert Joos were unsealed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents arrested two suspected white supremacists Thursday after a raid at a northern Illinois home, during which agents seized assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and purportedly racist materials.

Tom Metzger lives in Warsaw Updated: Thursday, 25 Jun 2009, 10:10 PM EDT Published : Thursday, 25 Jun 2009, 4:43 PM EDT WARSAW, Ind.

Former Scottsdale Diversity Director Don Logan is facing the camera. Federal authorities made arrests in at least three states with ties to the 2004 mail bombing that injured three Scottsdale employees, including Logan.

YORKTOWN - Investigators have labeled as suspicious a spectacular three-alarm fire that destroyed a shuttered car dealership on Crompond Road, Lake Mohegan Assistant Fire Chief Brian Wolert said yesterday.