The uncle of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof says his nephew is a “monster” who was given a .45-caliber gun for his birthday this April.

They must have roamed the internet, thirsty, like wild dogs of the African savannah, until they found it: A popular military veteran’s Facebook site, gently praising the Navy’s christening of the USS Gabrielle Giffords. It was a veritable oasis, drawing in the pack of gundamentalists: There was water here.

This month, a remote Idaho school district, to which it takes law enforcement officers approximately 45 minutes to travel, has purchased firearms and trained six staff members to use them in the event of a school shooting, the Associated Press reports.

Jim Cooley cares deeply about freedom. And safety. Which is why he travels to Atlanta’s airport carrying an AR-15 with a 90-round drum magazine. But why can’t he do that without cops politely following him at a safe distance? Isn’t this America?

You may have heard about the Billings teen who could face charges for killing his best friend with an “heirloom” revolver after the friend tapped on his window in the dead of night. But what do you know of 10 dead bears, sheep eradicating ragweed, and a lawsuit over the Garden of Read’n Christian bookstore?

Says here on the front page of today’s Florida Times-Union that Jacksonville residents are in shock after two young men fired into a school bus, shooting two girls in the head and OH HEY COUPONS FOR DISCOUNT ADMISSION TO THE GUN SHOW AT THE MOROCCO SHRINE CENTER.

A Chicago Uber driver won’t face charges for shooting a man who opened fire into a crowd in Logan Square over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Robert Durst will face felony gun charges stemming from his arrest last month in New Orleans. The Times-Picayune reports that an Orleans Parish grand jury indicted the real estate heir Wednesday on one count of possession of a firearm as a felon and one count possessing a firearm in the presence of a controlled substance.

There are like, two places left in the United States where you have a reasonable expectation to not encounter gunfire (petting zoo, kindergarten graduation ceremony), and church is no longer one of them.

Florida and Texas, famed for being the two most levelheaded and reasonable states in America, may soon allow college kids to carry concealed guns on campus.

A new report in the Washington Post indicates that a well-known gun proponent and local DC FOX reporter lied about a home invasion that ended in a face-off with 15 supposed drug addicts.

Two 14-year-old girls at Pasadena High School near Houston took their fight—allegedly over a boy—to the park across the street from their school this past Tuesday. One girl's mother brought a gun.

An attempted robbery of Good Family Pharmacy in Pinch, West. Va. last week was foiled after a pharmacist drew his concealed weapon and fired three shots at the armed suspect, killing him.

Michigan police say a woman who shot herself in the eye on New Year's Day was adjusting a handgun in her bra holster when the weapon accidentally discharged.

The ancient and honorable rivalry between the TKE and Pi Kappa Alpha frats at the University of Georgia escalated early Sunday morning when someone in the TKE house decided to settle things like a gentleman and fired a warning shot from a semi-automatic handgun into the cold, stupid Athens night.

A toddler accidentally shot his father and his eight-months-pregnant mother in an Albuquerque motel room on Saturday, the Albuquerque Journal reports. According to the paper, both parents are expected to survive.

Jim Huish, of the band Amber Drive, is arguably the most excited man on this mortal coil for the release of Pitch Perfect 2. He performed that stupid "Cups" song routine ("performance"? "parlor trick"?) with guns for no apparent reason other than that he could.

A two-year-old boy accidentally killed a woman, reported to be his mother, this morning at an Idaho Walmart. Police say the boy fatally shot the woman after grabbing a handgun from her purse.

According to a New York Times investigation, a group of Brooklyn NYPD officers may have planted guns and invented nonexistent informants in order to arrest as many as six innocent people.

With the Darren Wilson decision on the horizon and the possibility of renewed unrest in Ferguson, paranoid Missourians are buying lots and lots of guns. In a story that sounds too pat to be true, one such new firearm owner allegedly accidentally killed herself over the weekend while waving her gun and saying "we're ready for Ferguson!"