PROVIDENCE — A federal judge says Rhode Island’s gun permit system, which requires residents to show “a need” to openly carry ...

Rhode Island's dual system of licenses granted by municipalities and by the attorney general's office. How this ...

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s requirement that residents show a need for an open-carry permit, ...

Rhode Island’s rules for obtaining a discretionary permit to carry a firearm didn’t violate the Second Amendment or due process, a federal court said.

A Second Amendment lobbyist sued the state attorney general in 2023, arguing that he was unlawfully refused an open carry ...

The North Providence town employee accused of poisoning a co-worker at the DPW will remain free, on home confinement, ...

Rhode Island’s rules for obtaining a discretionary permit to carry a firearm didn’t violate the Second Amendment or due process, a federal court said.

From Friday's decision by Judge William Smith (D.R.I.) in O'Neil v. Neronha: [W]hile Bruen held that the Second Amendment's ...

A fire that destroyed a gun club in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, early Tuesday was accidental, NBC affiliate WJAR reports. The Sayles Hill Rod & Gun Club on Sayles Hill Road burned down when ...

How an outbreak of violence on a January holiday figures in homicide statistics during the first six months of 2025.

Elisabeth Ryan, policy counsel at Everytown for Gun Safety, rejected claims that the proposed law is weak. “The weakest law is what Rhode Island has now, no ban on assault weapons,” Ryan said.

A town worker in Rhode Island was arrested after allegedly filling a Gatorade bottle with wiper fluid and poisoning his ...