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CHARLOTTE — Federal and local officials in North Carolina are ramping up efforts to stop straw purchases, which is when ...
Myles Harris discusses what the "Don't Lie For The Other Guy" campaign aims to cut down on.
A Dolton man was sentenced to two years in federal prison Tuesday for helping to run a gun straw purchase ring. Schebaka ...
In 2002, she was a college student in Ohio. A classmate asked her to go to a nearby gun store and make a purchase for him. “Of course, my regular questions were, 'Why do you need to?' ...
I'm Scott Simon. The U.S. Congress reached a compromise this week. If that's not surprising enough, the issue is guns. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: On this vote the yeas are 68, the nays are 31.
Keeping guns out of the hands of prohibited people is the subject of a federal campaign against "straw" firearm purchases that New Orleans-area officials trumpeted Wednesday at a news conference.
Opinion Readers respond: Prevent straw gun purchases Published: May. 13, 2025, 7:00 a.m.
As gun violence surges in Cleveland’s streets, state lawmakers in Columbus are weighing a new response: tougher penalties for ...
Straw purchases also are a concern for legal gun owners, said Landis Aden, president of Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association.
PHOENIX — Fourteen suspects accused of conspiracy around straw purchases of firearms were charged in a 20-count indictment on Wednesday, according to authorities. Thirteen of the individuals ...
Two Reading men, Luis Rosario, 22, and Kalif Johnson, 22, were arrested Feb. 28 on attempted murder charges in the Feb. 2 ...