Mikhail Kalashnikov, small arms designer of the infamous AK-47 assault rifle, died just before Christmas, at age 94. And it's just now come to light that the honorary Russian general repented for his contribution to modern warfare in a letter sent to Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church in May 2012.

All Gregory Beck wanted to do was honor the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre the best way he knew how: by giving out ammunition to the gun-nuts he knew for 26 days straight. But you people can't tolerate a sense of humor in a school board member, can you?

If, as a Kentucky state legislator, you "accidentally" discharge your Ruger .380 semiauto handgun in the capitol just before the governor gives a speech there, you can react a few different ways. "Oops, I'm sorry" seems good. "I'm an idiot" is better. Rep. Leslie Combs went with "It happens."

On the heels of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson's awkward ruminations on Jesus and buttsex and vaginas, the reality TV stars have finally paired up with a popular gun manufacturer to make some boomsticks—and some haunting ads about life, liberty, and shooting God's feathery creatures with said boomsticks.

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who is challenging conservative Sen. John Cornyn in a primary because Corny's too librul, evidently doesn't know much about gun-cleaning, or buying American.

A teenage girl from Colorado Springs was shot and killed by her stepfather early this morning after being mistaken for a home invader.

Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the man who invented the AK-47, died on Monday. He was 94.

On Wednesday, December 12 of last year, at lunchtime, Sammie Eaglebear Chavez talked about shooting up his school. The 18-year-old was in the cafeteria of Bartlesville Senior High, 45 miles north of Tulsa, Oklahoma, conversing with classmates he considered friends.

This is a captivating story, but do we really want to adopt as a standard of morality the idea that bystanders are obligated to jump in when they see someone being held up at gunpoint? Cause uh, I'm happy to call the cops for you, but...

A Florida woman inadvertently killed her boyfriend when she "playfully" shot him with a gun she wasn't aware had been loaded.

Okay, at the outset, let me say this: I like guns. I know guns. I never heard of Daniel Defense until I saw this ad. Which means Daniel Defense is winning.

A search warrant made public by the Seminole County court clerk on Tuesday shows that model citizen George Zimmerman was in possession of a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 assault rifle, three handguns, and more than 100 rounds of ammo when he was arrested Nov. 18 on domestic violence charges.

Hundreds of Californians have been jailed for life for felony firearm possession under the state's "Three Strikes" law. Now, the state has reformed the harsh law, and these convicts are asking for reconsideration. Is mere gun possession bad enough to lock someone up forever?

TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez waited 33 minutes before receiving medical attention after being shot earlier this month at LAX, a delay that might have cost Hernandez his life.

According to the autopsy, Renisha McBride, the 19-year-old killed while seeking help after a car crash in suburban Detroit, did in fact die of a gunshot wound to her face. The shooter still claims he "accidentally" discharged his shotgun because he thought someone was breaking into his home.

Two men were shot Saturday night when a gunman opened fire at group of ice-skaters at the Bryant Park ice skating rink in midtown Manhattan.

Dick Metcalf is an editor at Guns & Ammo. In the latest issue, he made the mistake of writing a column suggesting that some common sense gun regulation might be a good thing. Now he's gone and made the gun people very, very mad.

Less than two months after Charlotte police shot and killed an unarmed man who was trying to find help after having a car accident, a woman is dead in Michigan under similar circumstances, shot in the head while reportedly searching for assistance late Friday night.

A new study suggests that white American gun owners are more likely to be racist. According to the data, logistic regressions found that "for each 1 point increase in symbolic racism there was a 50% increase in the odds of having a gun at home."

"Francis Specker, 50, of Riverside, was supposed to take a 10:30 a.m. flight to New York out of Terminal 3. ... Specker lived in New York during the 2001 terrorist attacks and said Friday’s shooting was not a huge surprise. 'I guess this is sort of the new normal, right?'" More on today's LAX shooting here.