Guns

On Sunday night, at least 10 people were hit by bullets at a parade in New Orleans when an apparent shootout erupted in the crowd.

A Missouri woman is suing St. Louis County and a police officer after a Taser prong lodged in her eye and left her at a risk for blindness.

Police in the Miami area shot five people over the weekend and one on Tuesday. But so far, officers have claimed that only one of the suspects had a weapon.

A Republican member of the Texas Legislature has thrown his support behind the governor banning the settlement of any Syrian refugees in the Lone Star state by saying that Texas laws would make it too easy for a potential terrorist to get a gun.

A Muslim family in Florida told local media on Monday that their home had been targeted with gunfire due to backlash from the Paris attacks.

The president of Howard University announced on Thursday that the school had increased security after receiving a racist death threat against all students.

The mother of a Texas deputy said this week that Laredo police officers did not have a good reason to shoot and kill her son after they showed up at his apartment to respond to an attempted suicide.

Officials in Bastrop County, Texas -- which was the epicenter of Jade Helm hysteria this past summer -- have approved another military exercise in the area next year but are keeping the details secret to avoid the craziness this time.

AUSTIN (Reuters) - Police were searching on Saturday for a suspect in the shooting of a Texas state judge in the driveway of her home, authorities said.

The Louisiana Bureau of Investigations announced this week that an investigation had been opened after law enforcement officers killed a 6-year-old boy who was in the passenger seat of a fleeing car.

An Arkansas police officer was charged with filing a false police report after admitting that he lied when he said that an Hispanic man shot him in the chest.

The U.S. Supreme Court revealed last week that it would consider a case where two men argued that domestic abuse should not prohibit them from owning guns if the violence was not "reckless."

With Texas about to throw open the doors allowing gun owners to wear their hand guns in the open beginning in three months, fanciers of knives are pushing lawmakers to liberalize laws allowing open carry of their weapon of choice, the Beaumont Enterprise reports.