Researchers Find 'First Gun Victim'
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WASHINGTON -- The musket blast was sudden and deadly, the killing nearly 500 years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere.&quot;We didn't expect it.
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Several East Coast cities are launching a new tactic against urban gun violence by creating a database to pool information on gun-related crimes and firearms trafficking.
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WASILLA, Alaska - A suspect in the theft of handguns from a Wasilla home didn't get far, according to Alaska State Troopers. He was found asleep in a vehicle parked in the home's garage, wearing a sweat shirt belonging to the woman who lives in the home.
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Murdered schoolboy was probably the victim of a bullet intended for a 19-year-old gang member.
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Canadian police begin investigating school gunman who killed one student before being shot dead.
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BAGHDAD -- Members of the US Army's 41st Regiment uncovered an AK-47 during a routine search in the dangerous Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Aug. 31. Finding a weapon was not unusual, but Sergeant Michael P. Williams, 25, said he felt danger when he saw a smirking Iraqi man in the house where the gun was found, according to ...
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DAYTON  --  Researchers at the University of Dayton are taking aim with a triple-barreled gun, one they're calling the fastest light-gas gun in the world, hoping their target practice can help ensure better safety for space shuttle missions.
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Army officials searching the site of an ammunition plant explosion have found partial remains of a second victim, believed to be a plant employee.
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Paw print may prove Labrador killed owner with shotgun on Texas goose-hunting trip
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An experiment to reconstruct the deadly 1918 influenza virus has given a new insight into how the infection took hold of its victims.
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By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 18--On Sept. 8, a Lehigh County jury found a North Whitehall landowner partly responsible for injuries to a woman who was hit by a stray bullet fired by a hunter on his property.
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Gripping a pair of pliers, a doctor pried a bullet from Amina Kharim&#39;s swollen and bleeding left arm. Eight hours earlier, at dawn Tuesday, she had been asleep
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She had been looking down the barrel of a gun for about two hours. Abducted by two men on her way to work, forced into her car, raped twice, robbed of nearly every cent she had -- she did not know how this would end. But there, in the back seat of her car, as they sped down a road in Southeast...
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There are nine guns for every 10 people in the United States, with about 270 million firearms in circulation, according to a report released Tuesday.
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UK researchers have collected the first hard evidence of monkeys using tools, Science magazine reports.
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OSLO, Dec. 6 (IPS) - Many of the weapons that give Brazil the  world's highest gun death rate outside of conflict are  foreign made and traceable, reveals a new report by Norwegian and  Brazilian organisations.
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ATHENS, Greece - Earlier this year, Matt Emmons discovered someone had sabotaged his rifles. Whoever did it might have helped him win a gold medal. Using a gun loaned to him by a training partner back home, Emmons won the 50-meter prone ...