Newsworthy in the States

• Road rage in Maine leads to shots fired.
• New Hampshire man sentenced for gun trafficking in Massachusetts.
• Alabama lawmaker proposes conceal carry permit database.
• In Virginia, an armed gun owner stalks a state legislator at his home.
• A bill in Virginia to help curb suicide by gun advances.
• In Texas, a high school vice principal left her gun in the bathroom.

​​National News & The Gun Industry

• CDC opens research grant applications for firearm-related violence.
• A new study shows higher gun ownership correlates to lethal police force.
• The silent epidemic of guns in America is suicide.
• Children in rural regions carry handguns as young as 11 years old.
• Filmmaker Spike Lee targets the NRA.

February gun violence reported to-date increased 20% from January.

In Boston, incidents have more than doubled.

And the month is not over yet.