Guns

Members of law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana spoke about gun violence at an event in Billings this week.

Calls reporting an active shooter situation were made to dispatchers in Billings, Colstrip, Forsyth, Manhattan, Miles City and Red Lodge as well as Cascade, Madison and Gallatin counties

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen sent letters on Tuesday to the heads of UPS and FedEx asking the companies to clarify their policies on shipping and tracking guns and gun parts.

A police officer shot and wounded a woman in the Billings Clinic emergency department Sunday evening while responding to a report of an individual with a “loaded gun” threatening to shoot herself.

The bipartisan agreement’s focus on mental health has raised hopes — and doubts — that it will help reduce gun suicides, particularly in rural Western states with wide-open gun laws.

YPR contacted all candidates running for Montana’s 2nd Congressional District seat to get their comments on the issue of gun control.

Clara McRae was a senior in high school when she and her classmates formed the Helena Youth Against Gun Violence group in 2018. In the wake of the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, she speaks again with MTPR's Corin Cates-Carney.

A district court judge has extended an order blocking a new Montana law allowing the concealed carry of firearms on public college campuses while he determines its constitutionality. The order came hours after lawyers for the attorney general’s office and Montana University System made their cases for and against the law.

Public comment on a draft policy to implement a new law that allows students to carry concealed firearms on Montana university campuses was overwhelmingly negative Wednesday.

The Montana Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education (OCHE) is now taking public comments on how to carry out a new law that allows concealed carry firearms on all Montana University System campuses.