Crime is Slate’s crime blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime. I write a lot about “accidental” child shooting deaths—the stories of children who kill themselves or other kids ...

During the oral arguments for D.C. v. Heller last March, one of the more interesting—and, as it turns out, important—exchanges concerned a comparison between Washington, D.C.'s strict trigger lock ...

A few weeks ago, former U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger made us aware of a terrifying “new wave” of evil, nihilistic violent extremists, who “find amusement in the finger pointing that often follows a ...

In 2010 a three-year-old child was killed because access was gained to a gun safe that contained a handgun. The little boy was the son of a Deputy Sheriff in Vancouver, Washington who had been issued ...

To the editor: My suspicion is that the members of The Times’ editorial board are unfamiliar with guns. To make a statement about trigger “locks that take seconds to open” is ludicrous. It is exactly ...

Noted security expert Marc Weber Tobias contributes The Lockdown, exposing the shoddy security you may depend on. Two years ago I published an alert on my site regarding the inherent insecurity of gun ...

Action News Investigates has learned some trigger locks are easy to pick.A nationally-renowned lock expert said some locks can even be picked by a child.Matthew was just 6 years old when his father ...

Re “Youth Gets 50 to Life for Shootings” (Aug. 16), on Charles “Andy” Williams’ school rampage: Trigger locks are well made and difficult to remove. Many young men think a lot about guns, and ...

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