For decades, America's detectives have made breakthroughs in crime using gun traces. A homicide investigator typically uses ballistics and serial numbers of weapons checked via a vast network of gun ...

For the last hour, in a backroom of a gun range in Arabi, Louisiana, I’ve been building Luigi Mangione’s gun. Well, not his, in the literal sense. The not-quite-finished firearm in my hands is very ...

More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of ...

It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer. The two men walked up the ...

The world’s biggest social media sites are home to thousands of 2nd Amendment devotees who believe anyone should be able to use a 3D printer to build their own gun. Meta, Discord and the DOJ are ...

This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. For decades, weapons manufacturing has been the domain of arms industry ...

Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. Recent cases demonstrate how convicted criminals and gangsters have been setting up bespoke manufacturing facilities with ...

Homemade firearms are spreading faster than governments can keep up. For many gun designers, that’s the idea. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff Thomas Gibbons-Neff writes about guns and gun culture. He learned ...