Longtime gun safety instructor Joe Picariello has widened the demographic of his students with his women-only gun training courses. For the past year, Picariello has provided Greater Gardner women ...

When the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety announced it would introduce a new array of firearms training classes, it ...

Some activists devoted to ending gun violence had to look twice at the source of the ads for firearms training that flashed on their computer screens. Everytown for Gun Safety, which has made its name ...

Crime, defunding police, fear of uncertainty and unrest after natural disasters or another pandemic are fueling gun ownership and interest in gun schools. "There's a lot of things, a lot of chaos that ...

GAINING TRACTION. ALLEGHENY COUNTY IS EXPECTED TO ISSUE AT LEAST 20,000 GUN PERMITS THIS YEAR, MANY OF THEM TO WOMEN WHO DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE A GUN. SO THE FOLKS HERE AT LEGION ARMS, THEY’RE ...

Harel Shapira is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. I did not grow up around guns, but 10 years ago, I started attending firearms training classes. I wasn’t there ...

Henya Chein has always been terrified of guns. The Orthodox Jewish artist and mother of two felt uneasy about her husband’s decision to buy a handgun after they moved to Florida from New York last ...

Each time the State Law Enforcement Division promotes its free concealed-weapons permit classes, Capt. Brian Truex braces for the surge. A mid-September social media post led to about 1,500 course ...