RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper on Monday urged Republican elected officials to pass legislation preventing people on the federal government’s database of known or suspected terrorists from buying guns in North Carolina. With the idea stifled again ...

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WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley startup has developed technology to let dispatchers know when a police officer’s weapon has been fired. The latest product by Yardarm Technologies would notify dispatchers in real time when an officer’s gun is ...

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SALISBURY  (AP) — Rowan County commissioners are trying to figure out how best to comply with a state law allowing permit-holding handgun owners to take their weapons onto county property. The Salisbury Post reports commissioners meeting in Salisbury on Monday ...

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Davidson County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man who they say carried a gun into the county courthouse.

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Asheville City Council has approved an ordinance to allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry guns at city playgrounds.

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Several times every day, at airports across the country, passengers are trying to walk through security with loaded guns in their carry-on bags, purses or pockets, even in a boot. And, nearly a dozen years after 9/11, it's happening a lot more often.

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As Congress prepares to debate proposals for new gun regulations in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, North Carolina’s courts continue to review whether the state’s existing gun laws square with recent state and U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Most recently, a divided Court of Appeals overturned a Caswell County judge’s ruling that the state’s Felony Firearms Act is unconstitutional, but kept alive one man’s claim that it violates his rights.

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Authorities say a Gaston County man is facing multiple charges after police seized 45 guns, including handguns and assault rifles, from his home in the western part of the county. The Charlotte Observer reports that police also seized rifles and shotguns from the home Thursday. Officers also found about nine pounds of marijuana, Hydrocodone pills and more than $5,000 in cash at the home about 12 miles west of Gastonia.

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Department store chain Dillard's Inc. is paying $2 million to settle charges that it illegally required workers who took sick leave to reveal confidential medical information.

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The company that makes one of the weapons said to have been used to kill elementary school children in Connecticut is being put up for sale by its owner, which called Friday's tragedy a "watershed event" in the debate over gun control.

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