Guns

Violent crime is down by over 20 percent in Milwaukee but homicides are still increasing compared to last year. 

A UW-Madison counseling psychologist offers advice for helping young people and adults manage mental health after traumatic events like recent shootings.

Wisconsinites struggling with suicidal thoughts could add themselves to a “do not sell” list that would prevent them from purchasing firearms, under a Democratic proposal circulating in the state Legislature.

Debra Gillispie’s grief journey took her from outrage and a mission to shut down a bar, to driving across the country and back, to 20 years of leading local advocacy and reform efforts, and ultimately, to the prison that’s holding the man who killed her son.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson is clapping back at Republican state lawmakers who say city leaders aren’t doing enough to address violent crime.  

The mother of the 15-year-old girl who opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, killing two people before killing herself, has died by apparent suicide.

The criminal case against the father of a Madison school shooter will move forward after a Dane County court commissioner ruled there is probable cause to believe he gave his daughter access to the guns used in the deadly attack.

Since last Thursday night, seven people have died in shootings in Milwaukee.

A former Walworth County police chief allegedly tried to help an ammunition and firearms dealer import hundreds of thousands of armor-piercing rounds into the U.S. in return for money for squad cars and supplies for his police department. 

A split Wisconsin Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit asking whether a man whose 1994 domestic violence conviction was expunged should be allowed to buy a handgun.