Suffolk County officials say that the shooting death of a 14-year-old has prompted them to offer two thousand dollar rewards for information that leads to an arrest of anyone with illegal handguns.

United Nations troops patrolling southern Lebanon have found few arms caches there. That has heightened concerns about Hezbollah making preparations elsewhere for another war with Israel.

ALTADENA - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested six men and collected illegal guns and drugs in a sweep of adult probationers around Altadena early Wednesday.

Four illegal immigrants from Guatemala plead guilty to federal charges that they bought guns that they planned to ship to their homeland.

A fourth mayor has withdrawn from Mayor Bloomberg's coalition against illegal guns, officials said. Mayor Mary Wolf of Williamsport, Pa., said in an interview yesterday that she withdrew from Mayors Against Illegal Guns because she thought it was attempting to erode all gun ownership, not just illegal guns. Mr. Bloomberg and Mayor Menino of Boston formed the coalition last year to lobby for laws ...

A Maryland man is charged with receiving, possessing and selling machine guns that he allegedly secreted out of Iraq during his deployment with the U.S. Army.

President Bush wrapped up his Latin America tour on Wednesday with a pledge to Mexican President Felipe Calderon that he would seek an accord that straddles the middle ground between amnesty to illegal residents and booting out more than 12 million...