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TORONTO -- A truck carrying thousands of firearms was stolen in Peterborough, Ont. early Sunday morning, police say.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Southwest Airlines baggage handler was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison after pleading guilty to knowingly possessing or receiving stolen guns. Federal prosecutors said Mark Hunter of St. Louis was charged after a passenger traveling through St. Louis Lambert International Airport reported that a pistol had been reported stolen from his luggage. Federal agents investigated and found seven reported thefts of guns from luggage checked on Southwest over a five-month period in 2020. After comparing Southwest scheduling records...

Carol Manstrom says she lost her 18-year-old son when he grabbed his father’s unsecured pistol and shot himself. Paul Kemp lost his brother-in-law when a man opened fire with a stolen AR-15 assault-style rifle at a shopping mall. On Wednesday, Manstrom and Kemp helped deliver 2,000 signatures to Oregon’s elections office as part of an effort to get a measure on the 2020 ballot that would create the stiffest law in America requiring the safe storage of firearms. The initiative would require guns to be secured with a trigger or cable lock, or in a locked container. It also mandates...

At a news conference Friday, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, in partnership with City Councilmembers Jason Rogers Williams and James Gray and New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison announced a new city ordinance aimed at promoting gun safety in New Orleans.

ABU DHABI — Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen. “There were no guards during the break-in,” the ministry said on April 7.

A worker at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has been charged with stealing shotguns, revolvers and other weapons from the checked luggage of passengers who had connections through the busy Twin Cities airport. David Vang, 23, of St. Paul faces 11 felony counts, including 10 counts of theft of a firearm. He will be making his first court appearance April 25 in Hennepin County. … Several boxes containing firearms, a crossbow, iPads, laptops, mobile phones, jewelry and other electronics were removed from Vang’s apartment, the complaint said. Authorities said he had 716 stolen items, valued at more than $84,000. …

POWELL, Ohio -- Powell Police and Central Ohio Crime Stoppers are looking for a suspect accused of stealing two handguns from a Powell firing range. Police say that on February 9, 2011 the suspect entered the Powder Room Gun Range in Powell. After renting two semi-automatic handguns for use on the indoor range, the suspect told the clerk that he needed additional ammunition from his vehicle, according to Police. The suspect took the handguns with him and never returned. The two guns taken were a Glock 22 .40 caliber handgun with serial number FNH951 and a Springfield XD9 9mm handgun...

Four former UPS workers, including a USC student majoring in criminal justice, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell stolen handguns in what federal officials are calling one of the largest gun-trafficking schemes in the state’s history. The scam involved more than 200 handguns stolen from the UPS sorting facility in West Columbia near the Columbia Metropolitan Airport. William Shane Ninan, 26, of Easley; Gary Matthew Martin, 25, of Gaffney; and Julius Rozell Barnes, 27, and Sterling Serrone Leeper, 26, both of Columbia, pleaded guilty. The scheme ran from 1999 to 2000, but the men weren’t indicted until August. The...