NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - More women say they are making their family’s safety a top priority. For some that means becoming more familiar with guns. “Women are realizing that they are their first line ...

Women who have been abused or stalked by an ex or have witnessed crime sweep the nation are increasingly turning to guns to become "their own first responders," an NRA instructor who has built a ...

More women in the region are choosing to purchase and carry handguns for protection, reflecting a national trend, according to this newspaper's analysis of permit data, opinion polls and interviews ...

There’s a quiet revolution happening in the world of gun ownership in America — and it’s being led by women. For years, firearms ownership was seen as a predominantly male activity, but recent trends ...

Longtime gun safety instructor Joe Picariello has widened the demographic of his students with his women-only gun training courses. For the past year, Picariello has provided Greater Gardner women ...

A new all-women gun club is now open in Lynchburg. Katie Bernotsky has been a competitive shooter for the last seven years. She is now a firearms instructor at Lynchburg Arms and Indoor Shooting Range ...

Gun ownership in the United States has remained steady at about 31% over the past several years, but beneath this stability ...

The COVID-19 outbreak, the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol all had at least one thing in common: They prompted a spike in handgun ...

One of the women in Barksdale's Rochester-area gun club was struggling to disassemble her new firearm. The woman's set of long, acrylic nails kept snagging in the slide, nearly ripping off every time ...

During the pandemic, gun and ammunition sales spiked dramatically in the United States — particularly among Black women, who have become the fastest growing group of gun owners in the country. “In ...