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Mass shootings are most commonly perpetrated by young men. Experts say most extremist attacks in the past few decades have been motivated by right-wing ideologies.
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In 2023, the Transportation Security Administration reported seizing 6,737 firearms at airport checkpoints, the most in the agency’s 23-year history.
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A ruling by a state appeals court in a little-noticed, nearly two-year court battle over a drug arrest in central Florida may have broad implications for Second Amendment rights in a state with so many owners of firearms that it’s sometimes called the “Gunshine State.”
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A House Republican has renewed an attempt to lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 for people to buy rifles and other long guns in Florida, potentially reversing part of a law that passed in the aftermath of the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Amid mass shootings in Maine and Ybor City, Florida Democrats filed bills that seek to expand rules on storing firearms and discharging guns in residential areas.
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The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the ATF to continue enforcing regulation of “ghost guns” while a legal challenge continues.
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A new Florida law went into effect that allows adults who are legally able to carry a concealed firearm to do so without a license.
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A Florida prosecutor has ordered an investigation into shots that were fired at a couple who mistakenly turned onto the wrong property in a Fort Lauderdale suburb while delivering for Instacart.
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One firearms instructor attributes this increase to a rise in crime and a general feeling of discontent with the economy.
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House panel supports a bill would reverse part of a 2018 law that set the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
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A federal appeals court has upheld a 2018 Florida law establishing 21 as the minimum age you can be to purchase rifles and other long guns.
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Two House Republicans filed a proposal this week that would lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to buy rifles and other "long" guns.