You may remember the July, 2018 shooting of Markeis McGlockton in the parking lot of a convenience store in Clearwater, Florida. The shooting was caught by a security camera. McGlockton had just come out of the store and found Michael Drejka confronting his girlfriend who was in his car at the time. McGlockton pushed Drejka […]
Chicago’s criminal justice is every bit as dysfunctional as many of its neighborhoods. Violent criminals, including those found illegally possessing and carrying guns, are released with little more than a slap on the wrist. And then they re-offend. Which makes Chicago’s notorious crime problem a mystery no one can seem to solve. Take Jaden Goldsberry, […]
The Dayton spree killer who murdered 10 people and injured 27 more had cocaine, alcohol and an anti-depressant in his system when he opened fire. A coroner’s report indicates that he was hit by “at least” 24 rounds during a shootout with police. According to cincinnati.com, Betts suffered at least 24 gunshot wounds, [Montgomery County […]
Philadelphia police officers attempted to execute a warrant against Maurice Hill in the Nicetown section of Philadelphia yesterday when Hill opened fire, wounding six cops. Police said that the incident began when an officer attempted to serve a warrant. Ross said that officers were already inside and in the rear of the building when the […]
An Ohio man has been arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance and making false statements or representations. Ethan Kollie, 24, of Kettering, was arrested Friday night in Beavercreek on suspicion of a firearms violation unrelated to the Oregon District shooting, according to Montgomery County Jail […]
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. As you can probably imagine, this week has been an active one for those of us in the gun rights community. The push for national red flag laws and universal background checks in this last week […]
You may remember that Defense Distributed founder and 3D firearm advocate Cody Wilson ran afoul of the law last September when he was found to have engaged in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl. He was arrested and charged with sexual assault. Today, the former DefDist CEO pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of […]
Another California mass murder. That’s two in less than two weeks. The motives in the latest crime appear to be “robbery, hate and homicide,” two of the same three motives that drove the Gilroy killer. Six people were stabbed — four fatally — in a killing spree police say started at a Garden Grove apartment […]
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. Apologies for the late roundup this week. What was rounding up to be a very uneventful week in the firearm world when we were shaken by a series of back-to-back mass murders. Over the past several […]
Remember Marvin from ‘Pulp Fiction’? The character who took the brunt of Vincent Vega’s (graphic) negligent discharge inside the car? (Video NSFW) Well, Chicago’s ne’er-do-wells have thinned their own herd in two similar incidents in recent days. In the first case, a car pulled up on the right side of a SUV at a traffic […]
At about 6:20 this morning, a longtime Walmart employee opened fire in a Walmart store in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis. New reports identify the shooter as a former employee. Two Walmart employees are dead. The shooter was shot twice and wounded by a responding police officer. The officer was shot as well, but […]
McDonald’s french fries consistently rank at or near the top of listings of the best fast food toasty tubers. They’re not as good as they were back when they fried them in lard, of course, but still well worth their salt. So to speak. That makes them at least as big an attraction for many […]
