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Boston Police Department pulled this 7.65 caliber Deutsche Werke handgun off a 17-year-old Jeremiah E. Burke High School student in February. The gun was loaded.

(Courtesy Boston Police Department)





Juvenile gun arrests in Boston have seen a 100 percent increase in the year's first quarter, according to a Boston Herald report.



19 youths under age 18 have been arrested by city police on gun charges so far in 2017, better than double the nine who were arrested in the same period last year, police data shows.



"Obviously, there are too many guns," Mayor Martin J. Walsh told The Herald. "I don't think we're at epidemic proportions. But the fact that we have one juvenile with a gun is epidemic. We work at this every single day."



The city council plans to hold a hearing on gun violence at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Thelma Burns Building in Roxbury.