Guns

Jared Lee Loughner, the disturbed young man charged in this weekend's massacre in Tuscon, highlights the physical dangers that individuals with untreated mental illness pose to society. But the financial costs of mental illness are high too.

People wanting to buy guns online through a payment broker fell victim to a Ponzi scheme and are now stuck without their guns or their money. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, headed at the Department of Justice, issued a warning today saying they received "hundreds" of complaints about the...

The storied firearms maker just reported annual earnings that soared 45% on a 21% leap in revenues to $406.2 million. But the Supreme Court's handgun ruling is most likely to excite investors and entice them to buy S&W's stock.

In recent years, demand for firearms skyrocketed: People worried that high unemployment would lead to more crime, and when President Obama was elected, gun rights supporters feared he would clamp down on their right to bear arms. But both of those fears have eased, and demand for guns is weakening.

Depending on your view on guns, you may feel either a whole lot safer or less safe ordering a coffee at Starbucks. That's because the coffee chain has a policy allowing "open carry" of guns in its stores in states where holstered handguns can legally be carried in public. Openly carrying handguns...

The Starbucks coffee chain will let customers carry guns where it's legal and said it doesn't want to be in the middle of a gun-control debate. Some gun owners have walked into Starbucks and other businesses to test state laws that allow them to carry weapons openly in public places. Gun control advocates have protested.

Goldman Sachs Group (GS) is at the focal point of the American public's rage against Wall Street -- and probably for good reason. The firm's former chief executives have populated the highest echelons of American government, which has turned around and given Goldman -- and its partner in the...

On Black Friday, shoppers across America will set out in search of bargains on flat screen TVs, Verizon Droids, Snuggies and... guns? Only in South Carolina. The Palmetto State is offering its residents a sales tax holiday beginning on Black Friday. For guns. It is the only two day sales tax...

Cerberus, the private equity fund that nearly ruined itself by making bad bets in Detroit, particularly on Chrysler, is considering taking its gun company interests public. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the firm "is in advanced preparations for an initial public offering of...

Congress recently turned down a chance to require all states to honor concealed-carry permits from other states -- effectively overriding all local gun laws. The defeat turned back, at least for the moment, a chance for the states with the weakest gun laws to make a killing by bringing more gun...