All the headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2023 // An explosion tore through a house in Arlington, Virginia Monday evening after police spent hours attempting to get the occupant who was shooting a flare gun to stop shooting and come outside.At approximately 4:45 p.m., the...
Dec 4 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — New or tougher criminal penalties against rioting, vandalizing power stations and harassing law enforcement officers and emergency workers are among North Carolina laws approved this year that...
Nov 28 2023 // A state appeals court ruled that California can continue providing personal information of gun owners to researchers to study gun violence, reversing last year`s decision by a lower court judge who said such data sharing...
Nov 6 2023 // The U.S. Supreme Court last Friday agreed to hear an appeal by the National Rifle Association of a case in which it accuses a New York insurance regulator of violating its free speech rights when she urged insurance...
Oct 23 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A teenager who was shot and wounded during a 2019 shootout between suburban Chicago police and a bank robbery suspect inside a music school has reached a $1.9 million settlement with the city of Des...
Oct 12 2023 // ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta`s police chief on Tuesday fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old Black church deacon with a stun gun during a dispute over a traffic ticket, leading to the man`s death.Police Chief Darin...
Sep 12 2023 // The federal district court for Delaware has thrown out a suit by a gun rights group challenging a state law that allows the state’s attorney general to sue firearms companies.The law allows lawsuits by the attorney...
Aug 31 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A shooting that wounded two women at last Friday night`s Chicago White Sox-Oakland Athletics game most likely involved a gun that went off inside Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago`s interim police...
Aug 21 2023 // A federal appellate court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a New Jersey law that allows the state attorney general to bring “public nuisance” claims against gun manufacturers and others who market firearms.A...
Aug 18 2023 // YouTube, Reddit and a body armor manufacturer were among the businesses that helped enable the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, according to a pair of lawsuits...
Aug 10 2023 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping list of public safety issues he wants lawmakers to address during an upcoming special session prompted by a shocking Nashville school shooting earlier this year that...
Aug 8 2023 // PRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois will soon outlaw advertising for firearms that officials determine produces a public safety threat or appeals to children, militants or others who might later use the weapons illegally,...
Jun 23 2023 // Newswise — A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzing 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data reveals another record year for firearm fatalities.The 48,830 lives lost to...
Jun 23 2023 // A federal appeals court has temporarily agreed to keep part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law in effect as court proceedings play out.The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted the state attorney...
Jun 19 2023 // It seems almost weekly there is a story or two in the national headlines addressing gun violence in the U.S., and a recent Insurance Journal article indicated respondents of a survey thought insurance could have a role in...
Jun 15 2023 // Nationwide General Insurance has avoided payment of a dog bite claim filed by a homeowner it insured who ran a firearms business out of his garage.A federal district court for Alabama ruled that the business exclusions in...
Jun 8 2023 // Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday signed the most wide-ranging state gun control bill since a 2013 law passed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, sparking an immediate lawsuit by gun rights...
Jun 6 2023 // A slate of gun control measures was headed Saturday to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk, after an all-night state Senate debate and early morning vote to approve the state’s most wide-ranging gun legislation...
Jun 5 2023 // A federal judge has blocked part of New Jersey’s new handgun carry law that barred weapons from being carried in so-called sensitive places and halted a new insurance mandate the law sought to institute.The court...
Jun 1 2023 // Georgia’s highest court this week upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by five college professors challenging the removal of public colleges and universities from a list of “school...