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Device that unleashes dozens of bullets per second creating chaos and concern
Police are seeing more firepower on our streets tied to tiny devices known as switches, giggle switches or machine gun conversion devices. It’s a troubling trend being used to quickly turn handguns into machine guns. A switch is about the size of a nickel, and it rapidly increase its rate of gunfire with just one pull of the trigger....
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Police concerned about rapid-fire switches for handguns
Devices commonly known as “giggle switches” can be added to guns to increase fire rate, and police tell the NBC10 Boston Investigators the danger they pose is a concern to law enforcement.
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Activists press Mass. lawmakers on bills to tighten gun laws
Activists on both sides of the gun debate testified at the Massachusetts Statehouse on Tuesday as lawmakers work to hammer out a final package of proposed changes to the state’s firearms laws. One of the bills would ban “ghost guns,” which typically guns that lack serial numbers, are largely untraceable and can be constructed at home, sometimes with the...
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Mass. attorney general announces new Gun Violence Prevention Unit
Attorney General Andrea Campbell formally launched her office’s new Gun Violence Prevention Unit on Thursday morning and tabbed a Massachusetts native who has worked on gun safety litigation across the country to lead it. The new unit, which Campbell said in February that she would create, will officially be charged with “enforcing the Commonwealth’s gun and consumer protection laws, working...
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Mass. man accused of using 3D printer to make guns appears in court
Charles Santos, 34, was arraigned in Plymouth District Court for his alleged possession of an array of weapons, including some that were 3D-printed. He was ordered held pending a dangerousness hearing.
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Mass. man, caught with 3D-printed guns, held pending dangerousness hearing
A Massachusetts man accused of using a 3D printer to make guns faced a judge on Monday. The suspect was banned from owning firearms, but police found several at his home this past weekend. Charles Santos, 34, was arraigned in Plymouth District Court for his alleged possession of an array of weapons, including some that were 3D-printed. He was ordered…
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Man accused of using 3D printer to make guns faces judge
Charles Santos faced a judge on Monday for his alleged possession of an array of weapons, including some that were 3D printed.
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Maine bowling alley, restaurant gunman was ‘kitted out to kill,' experts say
The gunman seen on chilling surveillance images from the deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday evening was prepared to kill, experts told NBC10 Boston. There was a massive search underway for the shooter — no suspect has been publicly identified, though police were looking for a person of interest, Robert Card, who was considered armed and dangerous. Authorities…
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FULL VIDEO: Officials' Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting update
Maine’s commissioner for public safety, Mike Sauschuck, gives the first update on the mass shooting at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston Wednesday night.
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Harmony Montgomery's dad appeals conviction in gun case
Adam Montgomery, the New Hampshire man charged with murder in the disappearance of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony, is appealing his conviction in an unrelated weapons case. Montgomery was found guilty in June on six separate charges, including being a career armed criminal, and sentenced to between 32-and-a-half and 75 years behind bars. Montgomery was accused of having a shotgun and…
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Harmony Montgomery's father sentenced to decades in gun case
Adam Montgomery was sentenced to serve 32-and-a-half to 75 years in a gun case as he awaits a murder trial in the disappearance of his daughter.
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Harmony Montgomery's dad denies killing her as he's sentenced in gun case
Adam Montgomery, the New Hampshire man charged with murder in the disappearance of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony, was sentenced to decades in prison on unrelated weapons charges Monday, with a judge assuring him the sentence didn’t factor in what he’s accused of in his upcoming case. He was found guilty in June on six separate charges, including being a...
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‘Help me, he has a gun!': Ring video captures apparent kidnapping in Florida
Ring video captured cries for help during what police are calling an attempted kidnapping in Miami Sunday morning.
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Machine Gun Range Could Harm Cape Cod Drinking Water, EPA Says
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft determination Thursday that a proposed machine gun training range at a National Guard base could pose a threat to Cape Cod’s drinking water. The agency said there are no reasonably available alternative drinking water sources for residents should the Cape Cod aquifer become contaminated. The agency said the range could potentially create...
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Man Killed Parents, 2 Others Before Maine Highway Shooting, Police Say
Authorities have shared new information on a pair of shootings Tuesday that left four people dead in Bowdoin, Maine, and three more hospitalized, one critically injured, on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth.
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Military Moves to Improve Mental Health Care and Cut Suicides, But Defers Action on Guns
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care to reduce suicides in the military, but held off on endorsing more controversial recommendations to restrict gun and ammunition purchases.
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Man Who Had More Than 200 Guns at RI Home to Plead Guilty
A Rhode Island man found with an arsenal of more than 200 guns at his home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and a flamethrower has agreed to plead guilty to some federal charges, according to court documents. At a date to be determined, Ronald Andruchuk, 38, will plead guilty to lying to authorities in order to purchase guns…
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Teen Arrested After Bringing Gun to Lawrence High School, Police Say
A student brought a gun to Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and was arrested on Wednesday, police said. The student was spotted by another one, who had texted a parent sying they believed they saw the 14-year-old with a gun, according to the Lawrence Police Department. The student was found by the department’s school resource officer after the...