HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A legal, nonlethal self-defense tool is growing in popularity among kupuna concerned about an alarming increase in violent crime. They’re called Byrnas or pepper ball guns.

Nov. 29—ALBUQUERQUE — A new line of "less-lethal" guns has made its way onto New Mexico store shelves, and a teacher at Santa Fe Public Schools and her husband have the exclusive rights to sell them ...

(AP) – The beam from the intruder’s flashlight pierced the blackness of the bedroom at 4:45 a.m., sweeping across the down comforter and into Eric Martin’s eyes. Outside, the streets of his Utah ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – The Santa Fe restaurant owner accused of shooting a man with a pepper ball gun is a free man Monday. Charges were dropped against Steven Lemon, after prosecutors said they didn’t have ...

A recent study by Stroebe and Leander discusses why more and more Americans report owning guns for self-protection. Gun ownership in the United States In most industrialized Western countries, it is ...