Our friends and colleagues in the mainstream media frequently get firearm technology and the laws that regulate them wrong. “Fully semi-automatic,” anyone? Surprisingly, we found an instance where they are actually (for the most part) right on the money regarding a story from the University of Central Florida. Max Chambers, a 19-year-old UCF engineering undergrad, […]
UPDATE: Latest information indicates that four officers were shot and a fifth sustained a non-gunshot injury. Mayor @SylvesterTurner and Police Chief @ArtAcevedo Media Briefing on Shooting of 5 HPD Officers https://t.co/1PkSvaDg9j — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) January 29, 2019 * * * * * UPDATE: KHOU reports that the officers were serving a warrant this afternoon […]
Charlie Landeros, aged old enough to know better, loved his far-left activism. He belonged to an armed Antifa group we’ve covered, training “oppressed peoples” in armed self-defense. And now he’s no longer with us after drawing down on two Eugene, Oregon police officers who attempted to arrest him at a Eugene middle school there. Police believe […]
Just-released police footage from a December 18 of 2018 altercation shows just how quickly a police officer may have to react when surprised with a gun. This video was shot in Noble, Oklahoma, during a traffic stop conducted by Sgt. Joshua Lester. The suspect, 37-year-old Layland Lewis Jr. of Norman, OK, pulled into a driveway, exited […]
This article was contributed by Warren Wilson, a lieutenant with metropolitan police department in Oklahoma. He is a former SWAT team leader, current firearms instructor and writer. He has been a full-time law enforcement officer since 1996. For the uninitiated, “derp” is a word that’s been embraced by the shooting and self-defense community to describe a […]
Again, the only scandal bigger than how long it took to remove this feckless, self-impressed clown from his job is the number of lives that were lost as a result of his mismanagement and incompetence. From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Gov. Ron DeSantis removed Broward Sheriff Scott Israel from office Friday, replacing him after 10 […]
The Hawaii attorney general has released a new guideline and in their legal opinion, they state that unless out-of-state law enforcement officers and agents are on official business within the state, they cannot carry a concealed firearm. Whether you agree with the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act federal law allows currently sworn or retired law […]
Fox28 News reports that the Chatham County Georgia Police Department is asking residents to provide the serial numbers of their firearms in order to help police find them if they are stolen. In a statement by Capt. Daniel Flood… “Unfortunately, we’ve seen a big increase in the number of guns that have been stolen from unlocked […]
Gunfire broke out during a fight in the Riverchase Galleria on Thanksgiving night as shoppers hunted for bargains. Two Hoover police officers who were patrolling the mall responded. One of them and killed shot Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., who was armed with a handgun. As CNN reports, Authorities initially thought Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., known as […]
On Friday at around 2:00 p.m. in Minneapolis, 36-year-old Travis Matthew Jordan was shot dead by police in the front yard of a home while armed with a knife. As recorded in the transcript, the 9-1-1 caller had informed the operator that Jordan was suicidal at the time. Here is an excerpt from that exchange: Caller: […]
A man carrying what turned out to be a replica Tommy gun prompted a call to police in Monroe, Georgia yesterday. From the Atlanta Constitution: A 63-year-old man was shot and killed Thursday in Monroe after police said he was carrying a firearm that turned out to be a replica Thompson submachine gun, the GBI […]
Sheriff’s deputies in Fort Morgan, Colorado shot and killed a reportedly suicidal homicide suspect in a Walmart parking lot in June. Just released video of the incident shows the lawmen lighting up Dustin Montano – even before he emerged from his car. Unfortunately, the video will likely raise questions about how deputies handled the situation. […]
