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• Having a gun range on your property is legal in, thanks to a 1987 law allowing anyone to fire anything they want on their own land. Doug Varrieur, who has turned the front yard of his home oninto a makeshift range, was looking for a way to teach his eyesight-impaired wife how to shoot her self-defense pistol without the inconvenience of going to a commercial gun range, “which is 50 miles round trip, costs $45 an hour and is enclosed in a building with people shooting around you that you don’t know,” he told the Miami Herald . The only rules to discharging firearms on residential property are that you can’t fire over a paved public road, highway or street, or occupied dwelling.

“I honestly had hoped no one would catch wind of it and it wouldn’t become public knowledge,” Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said of the law, adding that even trained officers have accidental discharges. Neighbors, understandably, are concerned.

• After Rodney Bruce Black, 62, killed two neighbors he imagined were breaking into a building he mistakenly thought he owned in West Virginia, a television station looked into state and federal laws and found that neither limits the number of firearms an individual can possess. Investigators discovered dozens of guns inside Black’s home, including the .243 scoped rifle he used to shoot and kill Garrick Hopkins, 60, and Carl Hopkins, Jr., 61, as they peeked inside a nearby shed. Black is being held without bail.

• Despite the recent spate of shootings on college campuses in Los Angeles, South Carolina and Indiana, an Idaho bill to allow those with enhanced concealed carry permits to bring firearms onto college campuses—even if there is a gun ban on university property—has unanimously breezed through a Senate committee. Enhanced concealed carry permit holders must be over the age of 21, complete an eight-hour certified course and participate in live-fire training. “The people have the right to keep and bear arms, which is a fundamental right we put in our Constitution,” Sen. Curt McKenzie, who proposed the bill, said. But Sen. Michelle Stennett told a newspaper, “My inclination is that this is not the safe thing to do.”

• Silicon Valley continues to lead the charge on smart gun technology. On Tuesday, the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation launched the first of four $1 million challenges aimed at inspiring the kinds of innovation that could help lead to safer guns. Investors believe that technologies already being used to track and lock devices like smartphones may be the key. “The A.T.F. reports that a quarter of its criminal gun trafficking involves stolen guns,” San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr said at a press conference. “Guns do kill people. We need to have better gun control.”

• Pedro Reyes, a Mexican artist, took 6,700 weapons confiscated from Mexican gangs and sculpted them into instruments, NPR reports. Reyes said he wants people to think about the availability of guns in the United States, and the impact they have in Mexico. The project began six years ago in Culiacán, which collected 1,527 guns that Reyes melted to create art. An exhibition of the work, called “Disarm,” is currently on display at the University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum and includes a marimba made entirely from gun barrels, a bass whose neck is made from a double-barreled shotgun and curved magazines from AK-47 assault rifles that form the body of a bass guitar.

“Yes, I do believe guns are bad,” he said, “because you know it’s an industry that, to thrive, it needs conflict.”

Here is today’s report.

—Jennifer Mascia

At least five boys ranging in age from 11 to 17 were shot and wounded in the basement of a home in Milwaukee, Wis., Tuesday evening. A shotgun containing birdshot had been brought into the room, and as the victims handled it, it discharged. No word on charges.

—Fox6Now.com

An 11-year-old boy was shot in hunting accident in Panola County, Miss., Tuesday morning. The boy, who was with his 14-year-old brother, was climbing a deer stand when one of their guns went off, hitting him in the neck. No charges are expected to be filed.

—WREG

A 14-year-old girl was shot and critically wounded while standing outside in Lancaster, Pa., Tuesday evening. Police are interviewing witnesses.

—Lancaster Online

A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed at an apartment complex in Hermitage, Tenn., Tuesday evening. Police said three other boys were handling a pistol when it discharged. The shooter, nicknamed Bandit, fled the scene.

—WZTV

A 15-year-old was shot in the mouth at a home in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday morning, and another 15-year-old has been arrested. No word on what led up to the shooting.

—NewsNet5

A 17-year-old boy was found dead of gunshot wounds in an alley near Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Mark Twain neighborhood of St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday night. No other details were available.

—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A 25-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman shot in any icy alley were among at least five people shot on the west and far south sides of Chicago, Ill., Tuesday. In an earlier shooting, a 19-year-old man was shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, and that afternoon, an 18-year-old man was shot in the stomach in the Roseland neighborhood. That night, a 17-year-old boy was shot in both legs in an alley in the Park Manor neighborhood.

—Chicago Tribune

A 25-year-old man was killed and a 30-year-old man was wounded near Pimlico Race Course in northwest Baltimore, Md., Tuesday afternoon. There have been 22 homicides in Baltimore so far this year, and only two of the cases have been closed.

—The Baltimore Sun

Two men were shot and killed in Nacogdoches, Tex., early Monday. Deveston Denard Flemon, 32, and William Richard Cole, III, 33, perished at the Eastwood Terrace Apartments complex. Decobie Dywain Durden, 36, has been charged with capital murder.

—Tyler Morning Telegraph

Two men were killed in a shooting at a Citgo gas station on the east side of Indianapolis, Ind., Tuesday evening. Police have a suspect description.

—Fox 59

Susan Sidney, 25, was shot in the chest and killed in McKeesport, Pa., Monday night. The victim, a mother of five, was found on the ground. She had been walking with a man, who cannot be found.

—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Michelle Stebic, 49, accidentally shot herself in the legs while examining a firearm in Crystal Falls, Mich., Monday afternoon. The victim thought the chamber had been cleared. No word on her condition.

—UpperMichigansSource.com

An 81-year-old woman was shot during a home invasion robbery at her house in the Lincoln Highlands neighborhood of Oakland, Calif., Tuesday morning. The suspect fired a single shot and fled the scene. It’s not clear if he took anything.

—KGO-TV

A woman was shot during a robbery at a home in Sperry, Okla., Tuesday afternoon. Police said the victim was shot in the hand by a burglar when she went to check her home alarm. No suspect description was given.

—KTUL

A woman was shot twice and seriously injured in a home invasion robbery at Kings Manor Apartments in Shreveport, La., Tuesday night. Officers believe two men broke into a car in the parking lot before breaking into the victim’s apartment. They fled the scene.

—KSLA

A woman was shot at least twice in her Jacksonville, Fla., apartment early Tuesday. Police did not release additional details.

—Jacksonville.com

A 38-year-old woman was wounded when a bullet penetrated her car in Rochester, N.Y., Tuesday afternoon. Police are searching for a suspect.

—WHEC

A 36-year-old man was wounded in a drive-by shooting in central Fresno, Calif., Tuesday night. No word on suspects.

—The Fresno Bee

A man was wounded during a possible robbery attempt behind an apartment building in downtown Portland, Ore., Tuesday night. The suspect then shot himself in the leg as he fled. No arrests have yet been made.

—The Oregonian

A 35-year-old man was shot in the shoulder when three men wearing ski masks allegedly forced their way into his home in Duluth, Minn., early Monday. Police seized $200,000 worth of marijuana and $12,000 in cash at the scene.

—Northlands News Center

A man was shot and wounded while attempting a robbery in Las Vegas, Nev., Tuesday afternoon. Police said the wounded man walked up to a car, and the man inside pulled out a gun, shooting the would-be robber in the leg. Police believe they knew each other.

—KLAS-TV

A 21-year-old man was shot and killed at an apartment complex in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday afternoon. Police believe the suspect and victim knew each other, and the shooting was precipitated by a dispute.

—AZCentral.com

Steven Escobar, 32, was fatally shot while fighting with his girlfriend’s relatives at a Garland, Tex., home Monday afternoon. Police believe Glenn Keese, 52, the girlfriend’s uncle, shot the victim while intervening in the dispute. Keese’s bail has been set at $1 million.

—The Dallas Morning News

A 23-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to his middle finger in LaPlace, La., Monday night. The victim and a witness have differing versions of how the shooting occurred.

—Nola.com

Karll Williams, 22, was shot and killed at his home in Dayton, Ohio, late Monday. No arrested have been made.

—WDTN.com

A man in his 20s was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a dumpster behind a donut shop in northwest Harris County, Tex., early Tuesday. He had been shot in the head.

—KTRK

A man was shot in the leg and killed in Rancho Cordova, Calif., Tuesday night. Two suspects are being sought.

—CBS Sacramento

A 19-year-old man was shot and killed in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., Monday night. Fourteen hours later, another man was shot and killed, and police are trying to determine if the shootings are related.

—MyDesert.com

Rafael White was shot and killed in Chattanooga, Tenn., Tuesday evening. Police say the victim was arguing with a man named Rodney Jennings before he was shot. Jennings is being sought.

—News Channel 9

A grandmother was grazed in the head as she drove home from church band practice on Interstate 17 in Phoenix, Ariz., Monday night. A truck pulled up next to her and someone inside opened fire. “I felt warm stuff running down my face,” the victim told reporters. “It was blood. I just thought, ‘I’m still alive.'” No word on suspects.

—AZFamily.com

Lydia Colon, 43, who had been injured in a shooting that killed one man and wounded another Monday afternoon in Ashtabula, Ohio, died early Tuesday. The other victim’s condition was not immediately available. Police are searching for suspects.

—Cleveland.com

A 25-year-old man died early Tuesday from gunshot wounds sustained in a drugstore parking lot in the Laurel district of Oakland, Calif., Monday night. The suspect drove off.

—Contra Costa Times