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Police were made aware of unlicensed gun after Carroll testified in court she kept a revolver by her bedNew York writer E Jean Carroll has handed over a gun to police that she was keeping, but without a license, during her long legal battles with Donald Trump after she sued him over sexual abuse, according to a new report.Police in Warwick, New York, “took...

Victims transported to area hospitals after police heard shots fired near Circle Centre Mall on Saturday nightSeven children between the ages of 12 and 17 were wounded in one of the US’s latest mass shooting, which erupted outside a shopping mall in downtown Indianapolis late Saturday night, authorities said.Police officers patrolling the area heard shots fired near the Circle Centre Mall shortly after 11.30pm,...

Before Robert Card killed 18 last year, police had opportunity to seize his guns and place him in custody after several incidentsLaw enforcement should have seized a man’s guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday.An independent commission has been reviewing the events that led up to army reservist Robert Card killing 18...

Champion quarterback makes hospital visit to Madison and Melia Reyes, who were hit by gunfire in Kansas City mass shootingKansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, visited two young sisters who were both shot in the legs during Wednesday’s parade for the reigning Super Bowl champions.The Mahomeses on Thursday paid a call to 10-year-old Madison Reyes and Melia Reyes, age eight,...

Samuel Moreno-Carranza, age seven, was injured after his mother fired a rifle inside church and police responded, killing herA boy who was shot in the head at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch on 11 February has lost “a portion of his frontal lobe” while recovering at the hospital, according to his grandmother.In a Facebook post three days after the shooting, Walli Carranza said...

Wayne LaPierre, chief executive who resigned last week, accused of taking millions ‘for personal benefit’ in corruption schemeSenior executives of the National Rifle Association, including Wayne LaPierre, its former chief executive who resigned last week, pilfered millions of dollars from the gun rights organization “for personal benefit” in an orchestrated scheme of corruption, a prosecutor said on Monday afternoon.Monica Connell, New York’s assistant attorney...

Joshua Powell, one of five defendants in lawsuit including former CEO Wayne LaPierre, has agreed to pay $100,000A former chief of staff to Wayne LaPierre – who resigned as the National Rifle Association’s chief executive on Friday – has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in connection with a civil lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general’s office.As part of the settlement announced on...

California, Illinois and Colorado among states implementing ‘red flag’ laws after US ends 2023 with more mass shootings than daysNew gun safety laws are taking effect in several states around the US on 1 January after the country ended 2023 with more mass shootings than days.States including California, Illinois and Colorado are starting the year by implementing extreme risk protection orders, more commonly referred...