By Lisa Marie Payne, Associated Press After a police officer fatally shoots someone, it can take days or even weeks before the public or his supervisors hear the officer’s version of what happened. In many states, that so-called cooling off period is carved out in state law or in a police department’s contract. That opportunity […]
UPDATE: Various media reports indicate that Ely’s 62-year-old wife, Valerie Lundeen Ely, was stabbed to death by her 30-year-old son Cameron who was subsequently shot to death by responding Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies. -/-/-/-/- There’s a lot that still isn’t known about this situation, but according to ksby.com . . . Officers responded to […]
California is more than happy to pile on more and more gun control laws that almost exclusively affect law-abiding citizens. But when it comes to keeping criminals convicted of gun crimes off the street, they’re not particularly interested. California has some of the nation’s strongest gun control laws, with 15 more signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin […]
From the Associated Press A white former Fort Worth police officer has been booked in jail on a murder charge for the shooting of a black woman through a window in her home. Aaron Dean was booked Monday afternoon. He also resigned from the police department, and the chief said he would have been fired […]
The debate over what kind of gun is best for home defense — pistol, rifle, or shotgun — is almost as fiercely fought as the caliber (9mm vs. .45) or platform (GLOCK vs. 1911) wars. But whatever your choice may be, there’s no denying that a scattergun can be absolutely devastating when defending the homefront […]
Washington, D.C. has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation and a serious crime problem. Much of that is likely due to the District’s decidedly lenient treatment of violent felons. Now, after a week spent dealing with eight dead bodies, D.C.’s top cop thinks maybe keeping offenders in prison might be a […]
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. To read more, a deeper dive is available here at Firearms Policy Coalition. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Case Set for Oral Argument This week, the Supreme Court set New York State Rifle & […]
Finger guns have been in the news a lot lately. First there was the Pennsylvania man who was charged with disorderly conduct for pointing his index digit at a neighbor. Last week, a St. Louis man stopped a fleeing hit-and-run driver by threatening him with his thumb and forefinger. Those stories sound crazy. But there’s […]
The AP report below notes that it’s not exactly clear what the target was when a masked man opened fire this morning in the German city of Halle. The shooter opened fire near a synagogue on the Yom Kippur holiday, but he was also apparently near a kebab shop. But a Washington Post report indicates […]
From wkrn.com: “A sheriff’s deputy says it’s an obscene window sticker, but the driver says the sticker just shows guns and insists it’s a violation of his first amendment right. It’s a big green sticker on the side of Nicholas Ennis’ pick-up truck of an M-16 followed by two letters then an AK-47 with the […]
Two men were involved in an altercation in the Tequila KC Bar in Kansas City, Kansas Saturday night. According to the Kansas City Star, one of the two was refused service and kicked out of the bar about 11:00pm. They left the building, retrieved handguns, then returned about 1:30am and opened fire in what is […]
By Carl “Bear” Bussjaeger I saw this yesterday . . . Drunk drivers more likely to commit violent gun crimes in California, study finds. Gun buyers in California convicted of driving under the influence are at greater risk of committing a violent crime or a firearm-related offense, a group of researchers at UC Davis found […]
