IRVINGTON, N.J. -- When 8-year-old Hamadi Alston pointed a paper gun at his classmates in March and announced, "I'm going to kill you all," he said he was only playing cops and robbers.

Two police officers say they feared they "might not be going home" after they were confronted with what appeared to be a gun while on duty. The encounter happened outside a shop one night in ...

A screenshot from the video showing the son's paper gun. "He said he wanted to see if he could do it as he saw it on a video game," the mom told Newsweek. TikTok/@tekkoover "I asked him why did he ...

The ATF traces guns used in crimes, however federal law is getting in the way. Gun sales have to be recorded but there’s no law requiring dealers to digitize them, causing stacks of documents to ...

Police established quickly that the firearm was a brown paper bag that Sylvester had folded up to look like a handgun. The ...

Tony Forgetta of Gun & Sport North, based in Salem, N.H., said he uses a flower shop in Methuen (left) to complete transactions for Massachusetts buyers.