News broke yesterday that Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson had been charged with sexual assault as a result of an encounter with an under-aged girl. It was then also revealed by police that he didn’t board a scheduled return flight from Taiwan. As a result, as Ars Techica reports . . . A Travis County judge […]
UPDATE: According to mysanantonio.com, Cody Wilson has flown to Taiwan. “Before he left, he was informed by a friend of the victim that she had spoken to police, and police were investigating him for having sex with a minor,” said Austin Police Commander Troy Officer. Officer said it was unclear when Wilson left for Taiwan, […]
Last week, a deranged sociology professor at the College of Central Nevada shot himself in the arm in a campus bathroom because, he said, he wanted to protest the existence of the Trump administration. He was charged with a variety of felonies and has since been banned from the campus. But according to an apology […]
We included a story in the digest last night about the French who are considering arming all police officers. And despite their status as one of the world’s most gun-controlled utopias, the unarmed bobby is gradually going the way of the dodo in the UK. Meanwhile, here in the US, despite a generational drop in crime […]
Earlier this week, Russian businessman, Yevgeny Dedanin, was attacked by armed robbers in his own home. The robbers were armed and tied up Dedadin, his wife, and a friend. In Dedanin’s words, his house was broken into when he was about to leave for the garage. The criminals took him in back at gunpoint and made enter […]
Yesterday afternoon, gunfire broke out between police and a suspect in Cicero, Illinois after a traffic stop gone bad. One officer was hit four times, but a legally armed citizen got out of his car and came to the aid of the officers and engaged the suspect. “We were lucky enough to have a citizen […]
The man who went on a shooting spree in a downtown Cincinnati bank this week killed two and wounding three more. He’s been identified as Omar Perez of North Bend, Ohio. Perez, who purchased the gun he used legally, was apparently under the impression that he was being watched. By someone. A plaintiff named Omar […]
Gun control doesn’t keep guns out of criminals’ hands. You may have read that here before. Fortunately, they often use them on one another. Case in point: Last month in Troy, New York, police were called to a home after a report of a home invasion and shooting. When they arrived, they did indeed find […]
The following is a response to a recent letter from the Deputy Director of the Illinois Justice Project in support of gun dealer licensing that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times. So far, the Sun-Times has declined to print this. By Dan P. Eldridge and Todd Vandermyde Sharone Mitchell’s letter to the Sun-Times in support of gun […]
Video was recently released of a fatal February shootout involving Texas Department of public safety officers. Edward Montelongo was stopped by DPS for a traffic violation. The officer then attempted to arrest him after he provided a false name. Following a scuffle, Montelongo, of San Antonio, took off with a DPS helicopter guiding the pursuit. […]
UPDATE: As is usually the case, the story in Cincinnati has changed since initial reports. CNN is now reporting three dead in addition to the shooter with two more people wounded. At least three people were killed Thursday in a shooting at the Fifth Third Center in Cincinnati’s Fountain Square, Police Chief Eliot Isaac said. […]
Criminals aren’t always the sharpest tools in the shed. Here’s a textbook case. In late June, police were called to the scene of a homicide. The man killed was Geoffrey Sorden, age 48, who had gotten into a gunfight with a resident. When police arrived, the resident was still at the scene. He’d also been shot, […]
