Gun trafficking involves diverting guns from legal commerce into the illegal market, often through straw purchases.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Buying a gun for someone who is not allowed to have one is a crime often referred to ...

In July 2023, our lives were shattered at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after the tragic loss of beloved security officer Bobby Smallwood. As health care workers, administrators, volunteers and ...

Every year, thousands of guns sold at gun stores end up in communities illegally. "You don’t really think where do these guns come from. You don’t think that" Rashandra Burnett said It's a harsh ...

In the year Ashley Perez has worked as a cashier for an indoor gun range, she has witnessed a grim trend that firearm retailers have seen in recent years. “I had a homeless lady come in. ... She was ...

A Phillips County woman who pleaded guilty to the straw purchase of a firearm from a Helena-West Helena pawn shop was ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- From handguns, to assault rifles, to modified military-style guns, investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives say they are seeing an increasing number ...

Keeping guns out of the hands of prohibited people is the subject of a federal campaign against "straw" firearm purchases that New Orleans-area officials trumpeted Wednesday at a news conference.

NORRISTOWN — A Norristown woman is on her way to prison for multiple straw purchases and illegally transferring one of the handguns she purchased to a borough man who allegedly used the gun to fatally ...