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A federal judge in Boston has dismissed a product liability suit brought by the government of Mexico against eight gun dealers for allegedly facilitating the trafficking of illegal firearms south of the border. The Mexican government filed its lawsuit in August 2021 against Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock, Ruger, Barrett Firearms and Springfield-based Smith &

Returning to an issue that was at the center of her first campaign, Attorney General Maura Healey led a coalition of state prosecutors on Tuesday in the filing...

When James Eagan Holmes shot and killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012, one of the weapons he used was an AR-15-style rifle manufactured in Massachusetts. The Bay State has banned civilians from purchasing or owning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for decades, but companies like Smith & Wesson, headquartered in Springfield, can still build them here and sell them elsewhere. Backed by parents who lost children to mass shootings and the Stop Handgun Violence o...

April 21, 2021 | 4:43 PM For several decades, it has been illegal for individuals to sell or possess assault weapons in Massachusetts. At the same time, the state has an even longer history as the home of Springfield-based Smith & Wesson, one of the largest gunmakers in the country, among roughly two dozen other firearm manufacturers. And as such, critics say that Massachusetts bears some responsibility for the epidemic of gun deaths in the United States. “These weapons are made in your state...

Chris Lisinski State House News Service BOSTON – When James Eagan Holmes shot and killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012, one of the weapons he used was an AR-15-style rifle manufactured in Massachusetts. The Bay State has banned civilians from purchasing or owning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for decades, but companies such as Smith & Wesson, headquartered in Springfield, can still build them here and sell them elsewhere. With the support of parents wh...

Maura Intemann/Amanda - stock.adobe.com Another round of mass public murders has put gun safety back on the national agenda. On Thursday, President Biden pledged determination without surcease — while announcing several relatively minor measures. Speaking in the Rose Garden, the president said he had ordered the Department of Justice to devise a way to crack down on un-serial-numbered “ghost” guns that can be bought without background checks and assembled from kits or 3-D printer...

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Published: 2/1/2021 8:55:54 AM In 1976, Paul Piquette was a graphic arts student at Springfield Technical Community College, paying for his education through a job at the Springfield-based Smith & Wesson firearms manufacturing company while doing portraits on the side. While the job was seemingly unrelated to his artistic interests, it became a jumping point for his nearly five-decades-long career as a master hand engraver. Piquette has spent the last 20 years in this craft on the staff of Mur...