Crime is Slate’s crime blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime. I write a lot about “accidental” child shooting deaths—the stories of children who kill themselves or other kids ...

Action News Investigates has learned some trigger locks are easy to pick.A nationally-renowned lock expert said some locks can even be picked by a child.Matthew was just 6 years old when his father ...

I tested the IDENTILOCK trigger lock, a firearm-locking device designed to open with a touch of a fingerprint. At the end of my testing, I have a recommendation: This device should be issued with ...

So far this year, at least 94 children have picked up a gun and accidentally shot either themselves or someone else. How can we prevent these accidental shootings with kids? Shooting Sports owner Fred ...

Re “Youth Gets 50 to Life for Shootings” (Aug. 16), on Charles “Andy” Williams’ school rampage: Trigger locks are well made and difficult to remove. Many young men think a lot about guns, and ...

During the oral arguments for D.C. v. Heller last March, one of the more interesting—and, as it turns out, important—exchanges concerned a comparison between Washington, D.C.'s strict trigger lock ...

In 2010 a three-year-old child was killed because access was gained to a gun safe that contained a handgun. The little boy was the son of a Deputy Sheriff in Vancouver, Washington who had been issued ...

The plaintiffs sued the city and county of San Francisco in 2009, challenging a 2007 ordinance requiring all handguns to be set on trigger lock. The plaintiffs claim that requiring handguns to be ...

The Los Angeles City Council wisely voted Tuesday to require handgun owners keep their weapons securely stored or fitted with a trigger lock when they aren’t being carried, steps that should help ...