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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles City Council wisely voted Tuesday to require handgun owners keep their weapons securely stored or fitted with a trigger lock when they aren’t being carried, steps that should help ...

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 ...

I tested the IDENTILOCK trigger lock, a firearm-locking device designed to open with a touch of a fingerprint. At the end of my testing, I have a recommendation: This device should be issued with ...

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 ...