Articles Tagged: firearms

In Iowa, nearly 44 percent of adults have guns in their homes,

Iowa students and gun safety advocates rallied at the Iowa Capitol to protest a bill that would allow gun owners to have a firearm in their vehicle on school and college grounds.

Views: It expands rights and freedom. It makes ‘zero sense’

Lawmakers also approved higher penalties for felony firearm possession

He faces a little more than eight years in a federal prison for a firearms charge. He was previously convicted on state charges in the unintentional shooting of 18-year-old Marisa Doolin

Iowa voters will be asked to enshrine the individual right to keep and bear arms in the Iowa Constitution, subject to “strict scrutiny” this November. Here’s what that will mean.

Two people have been indicted for marijuana robbery and illegally possessing firearms. One of the defendants was initially charged in state court for firing 24 rounds into a building last month.

A Cedar Rapids man who illegally purchased firearms while being a drug user was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison

A Coralville woman, convicted last year for helping one of the men who robbed and killed Kejuan Winters in 2020, was sentenced this week to federal prison for illegally possessing ammo as a felon.

Not a formal investigation, but the attorney general will look at why the price of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer has increased 315 percent since January 2021, and other types of fertilizer have increased between 171 percent and 290 percent, according to the federal agriculture department.

The Iowa City Police are investigating an incident involving two young children in which a firearm was discharged Nov. 7.

He was converting “fuel filters” into illegal gun silencers.

Marion man will spend 1 year in federal prison for stealing pistol last year when he worked at Fleet Farm. The incident was captured on store video.

Gun deaths are surging in Iowa as a law is set to go into effect Thursday that will allow people to more easily buy handguns and carry them in public without training or a permit.

Mason Chance Edwards, 23, confronted the victim on June 9 at a residence in the Western Hills Mobile Estates in Coralville over a previous incident, police said.