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More than 200 firearms were seized, as were hundreds of pounds of drugs and nearly half a million dollars in the biggest gang operation to date.

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More than 40,000 federal inmates are undocumented, according to a Department of Justice report released Tuesday.

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As many as 5 million unregistered firearms are in the hands of Ukrainian civilians, a number that’s grown during the ongoing conflict in the country’s east.

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Police in Richmond, Virginia may soon get a gunfire detection system that’s seeing mixed results in cities nationwide.

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The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office used software to monitor social media activity of people at a number of protests in the last several years.

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The methods of radicalization of U.S. citizens should be a bigger policy initiative for the government in the war-on-terror, not immigration orders, according to the authors of a new study released earlier this month.

The post Report: ‘Stopping immigration from Islamic countries won’t prevent support for ISIS in the US’ appeared first on Guns.com.

Federal data released Friday shows a significant dip in gun background checks last month, in a possible affirmation of what some fear is the new normal for gun sales under President Trump.

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Cities with a population of more than 1 million saw the greatest increase in both violent crimes and property crimes for the first six months of 2016.

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A new study supports a long-held belief by pro-gunners that a decades-old figure about the number of guns bought without background checks is wildly inflated.

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Federal data released Wednesday morning shows December had more background checks across all categories than any other month in 2016, a record setting year for the system.

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John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, has challenged President-elect Trump and his attorney general pick to keep their promise to be tough on crime but by modernizing law enforcement tools used to combat gun violence.

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Findings from a study released earlier this month say background checks and permits are effective in reducing gun homicides.

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