gun violence

Connecticut Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz is calling for new gun safety measures to curb domestic violence. The legislation would keep anyone with a domestic abuse record from getting a pistol permit.

A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.

Connecticut's congressional delegation joined the Newtown Action Alliance in Washington, D.C. to call on the Senate to pass a nationwide ban on assault weapons — a decade after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

After three years without funding, ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection program used by police, has been revived in Suffolk County.

Citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year, gun rights groups and firearms owners have launched another attempt to overturn Connecticut's ban on certain semiautomatic rifles that was enacted in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Connecticut convened the first meeting of its Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention on Wednesday.

A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday defended her opposition to make more changes to the state’s bail reform laws.

A teenage boy was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting in a church banquet hall in Fairfield, police said.

A roundtable in Waterbury today discussed the mental health impacts of gun violence.