Guns

The death of an airman on a base in Wyoming prompted a unit-wide review of the safety of the M18 pistol, a gun that has faced allegations it can fire unexpectedly. Sig Sauer maintains the weapon is safe, and the Air Force is returning it to service.

Authorities declined to release the identity of the person taken into custody following the death of Airman Brayden Lovan on July 20.

Documents show that an M18 pistol — the same model recently pulled out of service following an airman’s death in Wyoming — fired without an apparent trigger pull on a base in Italy in 2022.

The New Hampshire-based gun manufacturer issued a lengthy statement late Tuesday defending the design and construction of its marquee pistol. The recent death of an airman on a base in Wyoming led the U.S. Air Force to suspend its use for some personnel.

While the incident on a base in Wyoming remains under investigation, all service members in the Air Force’s Global Strike Command unit will pause use of the New Hampshire-made M18 pistol.

The home addresses of all 424 legislators were removed for the time being from the state’s website over the weekend. The General Court’s security director has asked state and local police to make themselves aware of where legislators live.

The new law has drawn pushback from people who've been injured from unintentional firings of their Sig Sauer pistols.

Police have arrested a suspect. "We do not believe this was a random act of violence," said Fernando Spagnolo, the Waterbury police chief.

NHPR obtained psychiatric evaluations for John Madore that were ordered to be done following a 2016 standoff with law enforcement in Strafford, seven years before he killed a security guard inside a Concord psychiatric hospital.

A Trump administration order seeks to cut funding promised in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which U.S. Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut played a lead role in passing.