Playing "ding dong ditch" is a time-old tradition among suburban teens, but, kids, you should know that some of your targets may be armed. On Long Island, a 47-year-old woman was so fed up with someone ringing her doorbell and running away on Sunday night that on the third time, she took out her 9mm and fired a round outside her Rockville Centre home. And when she spotted a teen walking down the street outside her home a little while later, she stopped him and pointed her gun at him. more ›

A Tennessee state representative with the friendly name Frank Niceley is upset that New York City takes its gun laws seriously. He's so upset, he's writing resolutions about it! In the wake of the incident involving a woman who brought her loaded gun to the 9/11 Memorial, Niceley has gone and introduced a resolution in his state that gently threatens New Yorkers driving there. But only gently! more ›

Last month, Californian lawyer and influential Tea Party leader Mark Meckler was arrested for trying to board a plane at LaGuardia Airport with a handgun and ammunition. This week, Meckler pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct (reduced from felony criminal possession of a concealed weapon), but he wasn't too happy about it. He made his displeasure known in a long entry on his website, in which he railed against "NYC’s unconstitutional or tyrannical behavior:" "Until you have felt the handcuffs on your wrists, and until you have heard that cell door close behind you, it is impossible to understand what it means to actually lose your liberty." more ›

After a Tennessee resident was arrested on felony gun possession charges after checking her 0.38-caliber gun in at the National 9/11 Memorial, NY State politicians are now wondering if our gun laws are maybe a little too much. Medical student Meredith Graves did have a permit to carry the gun in Tennessee, but she didn't have a permit to carry it in New York (because that's what all tourists need in New York—their own guns), so she was in jail for days, including Christmas. And her plight has touched even Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. more ›

NYPD's Internal Affairs department, which hasn't been as active as some would like of late, is currently investigating a very strange case on the Upper West Side. Officer Benjamin Ambrosio, 28, claims that he was attacked twice while off-duty in two months in the same area near Riverside Park. Now, DNAinfo reports, Ambrosio has been put on modified duty and stripped of his gun and badge while Internal Affairs tries to figure out what in the world is going on. Getting your gun stolen by a man slashing tires is not an easy thing to do! more ›

A Long Island City woman pleaded guilty to shooting and killing her sister the night of her sister's 27th birthday party. Melanie Webb, 25, admitted to fatally shooting her sister Tara Webb, as well as non-fatally shooting her sister's boyfriend Terrell Carmichael on March 26 in the Long Island City apartment they all shared. No motive was given for the shooting. more ›

Late last night, an off-duty cop was jumped at 91st Street and Riverside Park. He fired at the suspect, who got away and managed to take the cops gun! more ›

A police officer nearly got shot by a man wielding a .38 gun but managed to stop him by jamming his finger to prevent him from firing. The NYPD says that Sgt. Michael Miller and Officer William Reddin checked out a livery cab that had been speeding on Quincy Street in Brooklyn yesterday around 4 a.m. The Post reports, "When the cops walked up and displayed shields, they noticed a passenger, Eugene Graves, acting suspiciously. Miller, a 13-year veteran of the NYPD, reached toward a bulge at Graves’ waist and felt a gun beneath his clothes." more ›

Pro Tip: if you're going to haul your pot stash AND a loaded gun around with you while you're traversing the city, you should probably go ahead and invest in a Metrocard. Turnstile freeloader Tyrell Thomas was nabbed in a Brooklyn subway station yesterday evening with those two items on him. Could the turnstile have had some "unexplainable" affect that blocked the oxygen to his brain? more ›

Everyone deals with broken hearts in a different way: some people hire their friends to shoot them in the back to win their ex's sympathy, while other people prefer hiring perfect strangers to shoot them for the same purpose. A Staten Island man who was brokenhearted over his ex-girlfriend allegedly hired some strangers to shoot him to win back his ex. more ›

Yesterday, a woman was taken into custody after security spotted her wandering around the Waldorf-Astoria wearing her neon pink underwear on top of her pants, with a gun sticking out of her jacket pocket. Forty-six-year-old Marilyn Michose was charged with fourth degree possession of a weapon, and sent to Elmhurst Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. But today, her mother says she knows what was to blame for the strange incident: lyme disease. more ›

It might not be the latest fashion trend, but it's certainly something that'll get you noticed: a woman was arrested wandering around the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel earlier today with a gun sticking out of her jacket pocket, and her neon pink underwear on top of her pants. more ›

The 8-year-old boy who brought a loaded gun to his Queens school and sold it to a classmate for $3.50 faces charges of weapons possession. So is his father, Ignacio Galvan, who kept the gun for protection and hid it on a top shelf. According to court papers, Galvan said, "I can't believe my son took it to school. Thank God no one was hurt. It's all my fault." Many agree with him. more ›

Are people really worried about getting attacked in the Empire State Building or something? We ask because for the second time this month police have arrested a man for entering the iconic building with a firearm. more ›

Over the weekend, a Long Island City woman was shot and killed the night of her 27th birthday party. Tara Webb's boyfriend, Terrell Carmichael, was also shot twice in the chest, but survived. Police initially suspected that Carmichael might have tired a murder-suicide, but yesterday, it was revealed that the shooter was actually Webb's sister, Melanie Webb. more ›

The Good Times Party Hall in Williamsburg decidedly did not live up to its name early this morning, when a man opened fire, wounding two late night revelers. Was this supermoon-related madness, or just normal Saturday night fever? more ›

NYPD: What job security! Apparently, 300 cops who have had their guns and badges revoked for things like domestic abuse, assault or civil rights violations are still getting paid their full salaries while doing administrative work civilians could complete for a third of the pay. Among those on the "rubber-gun squad" are the three officers who fatally shot Sean Bell and the one who fired rounds at Amadou Diallo. Many have been cleared of both criminal and departmental charges, but the NYPD just doesn't trust them with guns again. more ›

An 11-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile for criminal possession of a weapon after bringing a loaded gun to PS 140 in Jamaica yesterday. Fortunately, he went and bragged to his stool pigeon friend, who informed a school-safety officer. We're not sure how the Stop Snitchin' community is going to take this one. more ›

We've seen some strange marijuana-related incidents in our time, but there are three simple pieces of advice we'd give to anyone looking to smoke pot: don't call 911 to ask if it's illegal to grow pot, don't brag to cops about destroying evidence, and whatever you do, don't pull a gun. It's advice which one teenager certainly could have used this week. more ›

On Saturday, a police officer, who was attempting to execute a warrant for Bronx resident Alberto Colon, accidentally shot Colon's 76-year-old father. Jose Colon, who was shot in the stomach, is in stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center and was reportedly visited by Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. But why did Officer Andrew McCormack—whose own father was a NYPD officer shot in the line of duty—accidentally discharge his gun? Well, it turns out he was actually trying to get his flashlight. more ›

Sure, pilots may be able to pack heat when they are flying...but shouldn't they keep track of their guns when they've landed? A JetBlue pilot is under investigation after losing his government-issued gun at JFK Airport yesterday. According to the Daily News, Michael Connery Jr. "placed his bag down and chatted up another pilot," when a passenger mistakenly took his bag on her flight to West Palm Beach, Florida. more ›

Police are on the hunt for a gunman involved in a shooting on the Lower East Side early this morning. According to NY1, a 33-year-old man was shot in the abdomen outside an apartment on East Second Street and Avenue C at about 9 a.m.; during the argument which provoked the incident, witnesses say that a third person, a woman, bumped her head. The two victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital. In the aftermath of last weekend's shooting attack in Tucson, Arizona, Mayor Bloomberg and other NY lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to get stricter gun laws. more ›

Oh sure, any old story that hits the front page of the Daily News is ripe for hilarious recreation by the scientists at Next Media Animation. But not just any story warrants two such CGI treatments—those are the aurora borealis of animated Taiwanese videos. So we were delighted to see a second report on the Brett Favre sexting saga, which now has an added bonus of 100 percent more retirement and sexual harassment lawsuits. And how the times have changed: the first time around, Favre's pecker was depicted as a banana on a cell phone; this time, it's a slightly more dangerous gun, which literally goes off in his fantasies. more ›

After the fatal shooting of a Queens bodega owner during a robbery this past weekend, advocacy group Hispanics Across America recommended that bodega owners be armed in order to protect themselves and their businesses. HAA founder Fernando Mateo said, "We've gotten to the point where we need to provide firearms for these hardworking people." more ›

We have a complicated relationship with cell phones. They piss us off at concerts and they're ruining our social skills, but they are also great for sexting. Well yesterday, all that was made irrelevant when a cell phone stopped a bullet, saving a man's life and earning Superman's respect all at the same time. more ›

Let this be a lesson to all diplomatic attachés: Just wait for your gun to be processed at JFK Airport. The Post reports that a "man traveling with the president of the Central African Republic got into a scuffle with a Port Authority cop over a gun." At 4:15 p.m., "A US Secret Service agent approached a PA cop for help in getting a package containing a gun through screening, and the officer paused to call a supervisor. An attaché, Mario de Gonzalez Bengabo-Gomo, 38, grabbed the package and began walking away... A fight broke out between Bengabo-Gomo and the cop, ending with the cop hospitalized and the attaché, who does not have diplomatic status, facing assault, resisting-arrest and weapons charges." more ›

The Giants face off against the Indianapolis Colts today, but the only thing former star wide reciever Plaxico Burress will be facing is nine more months in prison. A gaunt Burress gave a long, in-depth interview with Daily News from behind bars, in which he recounts the hardships and dissapointment of prison life. "I didn't do anything to anybody. I did it to myself. I committed a crime. I broke the law. That's why I'm here. I can't do anything about it...If I'm so intent on going back to that moment, then I'm not making any progress. I'm not moving forward," he said. more ›

Hey all you cops, with your uniforms and your billy clubs and your fancy tasers: you like to go out for a drink after your shift, have a little taste, we get that. Sometimes you bring your gun with you. Well, you're officially on notice: those days of getting plastered and crawling across the bar floor shooting at the mice and the dust are numbered, thanks to a new bill that won't allow you to drink and carry a weapon. more ›

Five bystanders were shot during a wild gun fight that took place last night outside a Long Island bar. The shooting started around 2 a.m., when an argument between two men in La Hamaca bar in Bay Shore spilled outside into the parking lot. "We believe that they were shooting at each other and these people got hit inadvertently," said Suffolk County Det. Sgt. William Rand. Three woman, ages 19, 21, and 24, were all shot in the leg, and treated at Bay Shore's Southside Hospital. Two men, ages 19 and 27, were hit in the thigh and calf, and treated at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip. Police are still searching for the gunmen. more ›