A 22-year-old Colorado woman is dead after accidentally shooting herself in the head while drinking and showing her friends her new AK-47-type rifle.

In what might be the most American way to accidentally shoot oneself, a Florida man shot himself while bowling last night, after his bowling ball came into contact with the loaded gun in his pocket.

A Rangeview High School employee who moonlights as an armed security guard accidentally shot a student to whom he was giving a ride home yesterday.

Police are looking for three suspects who were seen to be fleeing the scene of a shooting that left 19 injured, including two children, yesterday afternoon.

Texas Congressman Steve Stockman, a man who fantasizes about armed fetuses shooting their way out of the womb and believes that oil and gas are the best things to come from the earth, is hosting a fun giveaway. But what for? Tickets to a Spurs game or a maybe a concert? No, of course not. Through a contest on his website, the representative of Texas' 36^th district will reward some lucky winner with a free, brand new AR-15 assault rifle.

You may remember the sad case of Thomas Grant, a Pennsylvania man who last Halloween accidentally shot his 9-year-old cousin with a shotgun after confusing her skunk costume for a real skunk. On Monday, Grant pleaded no contest to charges of reckless endangerment and misdemeanor simple assault and avoided jail time.

The father of a second grader from Suffolk, Virginia, who was suspended for making "gun noises" while pointing a pencil at another student says the school's zero tolerance policy on weapons lacks common sense.

A man stepped out for a cigarette and was repeatedly shot by mystery gunmen in San Francisco's Sunnydale neighborhood.

The man who fired the bullet that struck 10-year-old Zack Reno of Davidson County, North Carolina, will not be charged with a crime.

Just in time for its wingnut-filled annual meeting tomorrow, the National Rifle Association is set to install a new president: an Alabama lawyer who laments "the war of Northern Aggression," calls Barack Obama "this fake president," and fantasizes about "whipping" opponents of the gun lobby's agenda.

"There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it." —Republican Senator Pat Toomey on why some members of his party opposed expanding background checks for gun sales.

In recent weeks, General Electric and Comcast have both ceased doing business with companies in the gun trade. One media outlet thinks it knows why: Unable to get gun control from Congress, the Fortune 500 firms are working with their favorite socialist president to eliminate America's free market in guns.

For at least the third time this month, a young child has shot and killed someone. On Tuesday afternoon, a five-year-old boy fatally shot his two-year-old sister in Cumberland County, Kentucky with .22 rifle the five-year-old was given as a gift.

Residents of Greeley, Colorado, say they are outraged over two billboards displaying a historic photo of Native Americans in an effort to make an implicit pro-gun point.

It's time someone addressed the real victims of America's decline in traditional family values. I speak of our national shame: unwanted firearms. If Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer could, she'd adopt them all, no matter how broken. But she's doing the next best thing: finding loving homes for orphaned hand-cannons.

Everything old is new again. Congressional Republicans issued a report on the 2012 Benghazi consulate attacks yesterday that basically blames then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for everything—and calls her a liar to boot.

When you've lost a beer magnate, you've lost America. Adolphus A. Busch IV, heir to the Anheuser-Busch beer fortune, resigned his lifetime NRA membership last night in a blistering two-page letter that called the gun lobby a corporate shill and attacked its "distorted values."

A violent shootout last night resulted in the death of 26-year-old MIT security guard, Sean Collier, as well as the death of suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was shot in Watertown, Massachusetts. The city of Boston is currently on lockdown.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been asked to remain in their homes while police hunt for Tsarnaev. Click here for live updates.

In a speech at the White House this evening, President Obama minced no words when it came to criticizing those he deems responsible for the Senate's failure to pass expanded gun-sale background checks today. Flanked by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and family members of Newtown shooting victims, among others, the president outright called gun lobbyists liars.