Articles Tagged with ''firearm policy''

A school system in northern Georgia is considering a proposal that would allow district police to store rifles in school offices in case they’re needed to defend students in a school shooting, Fox News reports.

The Republican-controlled Missouri legislature is expected to enact a statute next month nullifying all federal gun laws in the state and making it a crime for federal agents to enforce them there.

The proposed legislation would encourage law enforcement to report firearms used in violent crimes to a national database to be traced. 

After a warning from state lawyers, the school has revised its policy to allow students and employees with permits to carry concealed firearms in open areas.

The NYPD conducted only 99,788 stop-and-frisks during the first quarter of 2013, compared with 203,500 during the same period in 2012. 

Limits on magazine sizes and mandatory background checks are the key pillars of today's legislation, signed by Governor John Hickenlooper.

The shows are adding extra steps to reduce illegal parking lot gun sales, as well as to better track sold firearms within the show. 

States with more gun-control legislation, such as Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut, have lower rates of gun-related deaths than states with fewer gun-control laws. 

Firearms concealed beneath layers of clothing can now be detected with a new scanner detecting terahertz radiation. 

The U.S. outpaces other wealthy countries in violent deaths, as well as in shorter life expectancy overall.