Thirty-eight percent of surveyed white Americans own a gun, compared with smaller shares of Black (24%), Hispanic (20%) and Asian (10%) Americans, according to the Pew Research Center.

He was a white cop. He did not apologize ... And a sizable number of those people have also had police point guns at them. For Black men, those are what the odds feel like in an encounter with ...

1364 - First recorded use of a firearm. 1380 - Hand guns are known across Europe. 1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch ...