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OLEAN — An Olean man is recovering in a Buffalo hospital after being shot by New York State Police after he reportedly pointed a BB pistol at troopers...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is sponsoring legislation to raise the minimum age to purchase military-style semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity ammu...

ALBANY — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out...

As hunting season gets underway, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has offered tips for hunters to stay on the good side of New York’...

ALBANY (TNS) — Entry into this year’s New York State Fair will maintain its longstanding policy that firearms, unless for the purposes of the gun show...

BUFFALO — The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded not guilty Monday to federa...

ALBANY (TNS)— The chairmen ofNew York'sRepublican and Conservative parties on Thursday pledged to file a lawsuit challenging sweeping new gun laws tha...

NEW YORK — For decades, New York’s leaders boasted that its strict limits on handgun ownership made it one of America’s safest places, a claim backed ...

ALBANY — New York this week became the second state to enact a law intended to force firearms manufacturers to adopt microstamping, a technology in wh...

The recent shooting on the "600 block of West State Street" is an all too vivid example of the ineffectiveness of gun laws already on the books when t...

I've never knowingly committed a felony, but alas, I might be soon. My crime? Criminal possession of a "firearm." A bit of semantics here. New York us...

NEW YORK — The man accused of shooting 10 people on a Brooklyn subway train was arrested Wednesday and charged with a federal terrorism offense after ...

Prosecutors in the Michigan school shooting by a 15-year-old student that left four dead also have filed manslaughter charges against the shooter’s pa...

It has become common in some circles to call the Jan. 6 Capitol riot an “armed insurrection.” That leads to a few questions: How many rioters were arm...

Suppose you had to take a driving test each time you purchased a vehicle. Never mind that you have been driving without an accident or violation for m...

ALBANY (TNS) — A policy brief by the Rockefeller Institute of Government confirmed that “ghost guns” are a public safety issue and continue being reco...

Hunters in Cattaraugus County took 47 black bears in 2020, five fewer than the year before, according to a state Department of Environmental Conservat...

ALBANY — New York’s 2021-22 budget includes a measure that allows youths ages 12 and 13 to hunt deer with a firearm or crossbow under the supervision ...