In three years, a recent study found, Academy stores sold more than 250 guns to "straw purchasers." Many of those guns were ...

Straw purchasers often supply guns to criminals through the firearms black market.

A shooting in Boston. A carjacking in Washington, D.C. A robbery in New York. All were carried out with guns that were among hundreds bought in the South and trafficked north to cities with some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Academy Sports and Outdoors will pay $2.5 million in a civil settlement this week for selling guns to a man who provided them to ...