Mark and Connie Thomas went to their first gun show Dec. 6 at the Florida State Fairgrounds, where throngs of people packed the parking lot and swamped the Charles M. Davis Special Events Center. ...more

December 17, 2008

Many people are flooding to the gun show at the fairgrounds. ...more

December 7, 2008

For years, marksmen have used a technique called bump firing: shooting a semiautomatic rifle from the hip and allowing the weapon's recoil to pull the trigger. ...more

June 21, 2008

You've seen the cover stories. You've heard the jokes. Mitt Romney's flip-flops have provided endless fodder for the late night talk show circuit. But just beneath the humorous surface lies the Democratic strategy for defeating a Romney ticket come November, and history shows this strategy works. ...more

January 27, 2008

Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence. ...more

December 29, 2007

The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg. ...more

October 31, 2007

The spray of bullets that killed one Miami-Dade County police officer and hurt three others this week came from something increasingly common on this city's streets. ...more

September 15, 2007