RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Like the Constitution itself, the laws governing firearms are a tug of war between the feds and the states. Gun control, meanwhile, is proving to be an almost impossible balance between what is emotional and what is practical.

Gun violence has been the leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the U.S. since 2020. Now research shows that, since 2010, these rates have increased in states with permissive firearm laws and decreased in states with strict laws. The new ...

Gun deaths among children have risen over a 13-year period in states with lax firearm laws, according to a new study published this week in JAMA Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho and Georgia were among the states that ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A new study by JAMA Pediatrics finds that states that loosened gun laws in the past decade saw a sharp rise in gun-related deaths in children. The study looked at the years following the landmark Supreme Court decision in 2010, which ruled ...