Most zip guns cost less than $10 to build, but the real price was paid in lost fingers, shattered wrists, and accidental deaths. They lacked safeties, proper barrels, or reliable firing mechanisms.

ANTIOCH — A man was arrested by police for possession of an improvised flashlight gun, also known as a zip gun, as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. On Jan. 4, Joseph ...

MOBILE, Alabama — Law enforcement officials were not quite sure what to make of the homemade gun that was in Richard Douglas Durham's bag when Alabama State Troopers pulled him over in May on his way ...

Police have arrested a 21-year-old Fair Haven man in connection with the murder last week of a man on Ella Grasso Boulevard near Goffe Street. A passerby called police upon seeing the victim, ...

A call to aid a man convulsing on a Vacaville sidewalk Thursday led to his arrest — and the seizure of a zip gun. Gilberto Kevin Trigales, 33, of Vacaville, was located at Cypress and Maple streets ...

After arresting three juveniles in connection with neighborhood robberies, New Haven Police uncovered an illegal “zip-gun” operation. On Wednesday, New Haven police took three juveniles into custody ...

A pipe bomb and zip gun loaded with a 12-gauge shotgun shell were discovered in front of an elementary school Tuesday morning just as children were about to arrive, according to the county sheriff’s ...

A man who allegedly attempted to run over a homeless person while a 2-year-old child was sitting unrestrained in the front seat was arrested Friday by Yuba City police. Officers responded to a call ...

SACRAMENTO — A pipe bomb and a hand-made gun were found Tuesday near a Sacramento elementary school and authorities were trying to determine who left them and why. An employee at Ethel Baker ...