Minnesota DPS Commissioner John Harrington talks gun safety
Two years ago, 28 kids and teenagers lost their lives to firearms. Now, Minnesota is investing a $1 million in gun safety to prevent suicide, theft and crime.
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Two years ago, 28 kids and teenagers lost their lives to firearms. Now, Minnesota is investing a $1 million in gun safety to prevent suicide, theft and crime.
Gun rights group says a new code used by credit card issuers will create a "national registry" of firearms owners.
Police are looking for a gunman who opened fire in a neighborhood in Crystal while kids were getting home from school. As WCCO's Reg Chapman reports, the gun shots shook up many in the neighborhood.
Families of the victims of the Uvalde protested at the Texas state capital today to ask the governor to raise the minimum age to purchase assault weapons.
The overall goal, according to the office of Gov. Tim Walz, is to reduce deaths by suicide, thefts, and crimes committed with guns.
They're known as ghost guns: Homemade firearms that don't have a serial number. Federal officials will start regulating them soon -- but that news has sparked a fire sale.
Officers took a man into custody and recovered a handgun.
The arrest of a man wanted in connection to a drive-by shooting led St. Paul Police to a stash of eight guns.
The suspects in both cases were legally prohibited from possessing firearms, police said. Both incidents are being investigated.
Jonah Kaplan reports on what's being done to prevent shootings inside the massive Bloomington mall.
Earlier this year, police warned that this summer would be deadly because of an increase in gun violence -- especially with weapons altered to fire like machine guns.
Monopolis Brown faces two weapons felonies for both intentional discharge and reckless discharge of a firearm, court documents filed in Hennepin County show.
In Minnesota, applicants for a Permit to Carry a Pistol must be at least 21 years old, must pass a background check, and must complete a firearms safety course. Those laws will remain in place, for now, unless the high court decides to take up more challenges to gun control laws in the future.
In a press conference Wednesday morning, County Attorney John Choi announced the county's plan to give away 1,000 gun locks at more than one dozen community locations – including social services locations in St. Paul, Maplewood and Roseville.
The bipartisan compromise does not have universal background checks or universal red flag provisions, but it does have funding incentives for states to pass red flag laws, as well as tougher background checks for those under 21.
A second day of hearings is underway in the Jan. 6 investigation into the assault on the U.S. Capitol.
The "March for Our Lives" lives demonstration comes in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and New York.
Minnesota Democrats at the State Capitol are renewing efforts to expand background checks and enact a "red flag" law in response to the mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and elsewhere in America in recent weeks.
Law enforcement officers used a chemical spray to disperse a crowd that created a disturbance at the main gate to the Minnesota State Fair as it was drawing to a close, sheriff's officials said.
A Minnesota conservation officer reported a bear stealing a camper's backpack containing a handgun and several "delicious-smelling snacks" from a portage landing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Police are investigating the shooting death of a woman outside a West St. Paul apartment building.
Milwaukee police say a 4-year-old girl accidentally shot her father and herself after finding his handgun, but both are expected to survive.
The man who allegedly pulled a gun on a group of Somali teenagers at a Twin Cities McDonald's is out of jail.
Principal Jason Paske issued a note to parents on the north metro school's website, saying that the gun was found in a student's locker and confiscated.
School officials in St. Paul say a first-grader brought a gun to class Thursday morning and the weapon discharged into the floor.
