New Jersey officials on Wednesday released a long-awaited report on gun “microstamping” technology that would make it easier for police to solve gun crimes, an “important step” toward making every ...

Although investigators have been able to trace the bullets in several of the Washington, D.C.-area shootings to the same gun, there is no system in place allowing them to determine the original ...

BASALT, Colo. (CBS4)- As the Lake Christine Fire grows between Basalt and El Jebel, many residents can only watch as flames draw closer to their communities. It is a day they feared would come. "It's ...

OPELIKA, Ala. (WTVM) - Some law enforcement agencies in east Alabama have enhanced their investigative capabilities with the introduction of advanced ballistic testing equipment. This technology, ...

Regarding the killings in Maryland (“Sniper Critically Injures Teenage Boy,” Oct. 8): Thanks to National Rifle Assn. lobbying, law enforcement officials are forbidden to use technology that could let ...

LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock’s arsenal included tracer rounds that can improve a shooter’s firing accuracy in the dark, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Friday.

Tracer rounds have lit up battlefields since the First World War. Those fiery streaks from pyrotechnic rounds serve an important function: they indicate where the rounds from a machine gun or cannon ...