Court Vacates Woman’s Conviction Over Teen Fatally Shooting Himself With Her Gun

A North Carolina appeals court has thrown out a woman’s involuntary manslaughter conviction in connection with the death of a teenager who fatally shot himself using an unsecured gun he handled while visiting her home. State law makes it a misdemeanor offense for a gun owner to store or leave a gun “in a condition that the firearm can be discharged” and is accessible to an unsupervised child. In a decision handed down on June 18, a three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals took a narrow interpretation of the statute, ruling that it applies only if the gun is loaded....