Academy Sports have seen their social media pages flooded with angry comments since the firing of an assistant manager who tackled a suspected gun thief. (Photo: Screenshot) A Florida man canned by the big box retailer has accepted an offer to come back to work following a public backlash over his termination. In an update
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A Massachusetts man could spend decades in prison after federal investigators allege he sold at least five firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun, throughout the state last year. Rathsomnang Neth, 22, faces one count of dealing in firearms without a license and two counts of possessing and transferring an unregistered shotgun with a shortened barrel, according to
Instead of accolades, a Florida sporting good store manager was given his walking papers after he stopped a man from running out of the store with a stolen handgun. Dean Crouch, 32, sprang into action last month to physically stop a man later identified as Jason White from leaving his store with a .40-caliber Glock
A Cook County judge is off the bench following a misdemeanor weapons charge after a gun fell out of his jacket at the courthouse, The Chicago Tribune reports. Judge Joseph Claps, 70, was reassigned to what was described as non-judicial duties pending an incident that occurred at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse last week. Claps was
A Milwaukee food service worker with a carry permit had enough after another waitress was attacked by an irate customer. In the above video from Wisconsin ABC affiliates, a man is seen going behind the counter of the George Webb restaurant on June 29 before he viciously punches a female manager/waitress. In response, a second
A joint operation between the Los Angeles Police Department and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wrapped up a six-month investigation with the arrest this week of 10 suspects with ties to an East Los Angeles criminal street gang. The investigation, began in January, targeted criminals selling so-called “ghost guns,” or homemade firearms
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico when it made landfall Sept. 20, 2017. (Photo: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Nearly a year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the island’s recorded gun sales remain higher than ever, federal data shows. Licensed dealers have transferred more than 18,000 firearms since September 2017, a 37 percent increase over the same
An event by neighborhood organizers in San Francisco last weekend netted 187 gun and gun-like objects. The gun “buyback,” the seventh annual event organized by United Playaz, offered $100 cash for handguns and $200 for guns considered “assault weapons,” no question’s asked. The firearms were handled by the San Francisco and are destined to be
Congressional Democrats and gun control groups wasted no time Thursday denouncing the nation’s gun laws after a shooter killed five in a Maryland newsroom. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, tweeted her disappointment within an hour of reports of the shooting circulating across the news. “Praying for everyone injured & the families of
Photos released from the seizure by the agency show it was made up in large part of vintage military surplus bolt-action rifles (Photos: LASD) A tipster told the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that 60-year-old man with a felony record may have a large firearm collection. The tip turned out to be true. The LASD
The parking lot behind the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, S.C. in June 2015. (Photo: Stephen B. Morton/AP) A federal judge on Tuesday closed a series of consolidated cases against the Justice Department and FBI over a failed background check that helped arm a white supremacist who killed nine in a mass
Police in Washington say armed civilians brought a halt to a carjacking spree that left multiple crime scenes, two injured and a suspect dead. According to the Tumwater Police Department, the incident unfolded early Sunday evening when officers responded to a report of a carjacking with shots fired and found a 16-year-old driver with non-life
FBI agent Chase Bishop, 29, turned himself into Denver Police on Tuesday before he was formally charged by the DA’s office. (Photo: Denver Police via Fox News) The Denver District Attorney has charged a backflip-performing FBI agent in connection with a firearm discharge that left a man wounded. FBI agent Chase Bishop, 29, a D.C-based
Gary the Gun makes its debut on Urban Carry’s live stream. (Photo: Urban Carry) Holster maker Urban Carry is determined to show gun control advocates that firearms are tools through a new streaming broadcast called “Gary the Gun.” The “Gary the Gun” project is a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week live stream
A NYT report suggests the ATF is reluctant to revoke gun dealers’ firearms licenses. (Photo: AP) Political pressure encourages the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ignore non-compliant gun dealers across the country, according to a report from the New York Times published over the weekend. The newspaper combed through more than 100
An administration official told Senate lawmakers this week the president’s School Safety Commission won’t focus on the role firearms play in perpetuating violence. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, chair of the commission established in the wake of the Parkland massacre, said the group’s primary mission will center on bolstering safety, dodging a direct line of questioning from
Screenshot of SpotSpotter Flex Incident Reports Portal shows details of a gunfire incident, including the precise location of the incident on a map, aerial or birds-eye view. Baltimore is the latest city to adopt the platform (Photo: ShotSpotter) The nation’s most dangerous city is already logging gunfire through the use of a gunshot detection system
Kathleen G. Kane is led out of the Montgomery County Courthouse in handcuffs by sheriff’s deputies in 2016 (Photo: Clem Murray/Philly.com) A Superior Court has affirmed the felony conviction of former Pennsylvania state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who came to office with the support of gun control groups. A unanimous three-judge panel dismantled the logic
Republican Gov. Kay Ivey established the program as an additional security measure in schools that do not have a school resource officer (Photo: Governor’s Office) The voluntary Alabama Sentry Program would allow administrators in the state’s public school systems to have a gun on campus once they meet requirements. Established last week by Republican Gov.
A Chicago firefighter was arrested and charged after a photo surfaced of his 14-year-old daughter posing with his AR-15. The Lane Tech College Prep student sent the snap of herself and the rifle with the tag “Don’t worry, I won’t shoot up Lane,” according to CBS 2. The Chicago Tribune said that while the girl
A backflip by an off-duty federal agent in a popular Denver nightclub ultimately left one man wounded and the FBI investigating what they term a personnel matter. The incident occurred at Mile High Spirits in Denver’s LoDo downtown area around 12:35 a.m. Saturday when a man in what was described by witnesses as a breakdance
A Florida Little Caesar’s employee with a concealed carry permit reportedly defended himself from a late-night attack from a masked man bent on doing him harm. Heriberto Feliciano, 28, was closing the Holly Hill restaurant in Volusia County on Saturday night and, upon walking outside, was ambushed by a man wearing a mask who first
A liaison specialist working in the FBI’s background check e-system halted three illegal gun transfers last year. An specialist processing applications through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System caught the attempted purchases Nov. 8, just eight days after police arrested the buyer for illegal possession of marijuana and methamphetamine. According to an agency press
Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, has seen his home and family targeted by anti-gun groups. (Photo: NRA) Patricia Hill, a researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was hit with a $500 fine on Monday for vandalizing Chris Cox’s Virginia home. Cox, head of the National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm, the
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Jr, 17, is suspected of killing 10 people and injuring another 10 at Santa Fe High School in Galvenston County, Texas on May 18, 2018. (Photo: Galveston County Sheriff’s Office) Texas authorities have released a hodgepodge of details about Friday’s shooting at a high school in Santa Fe that left 10 people dead
Keith Harvey, 44, was charged with dozens of weapons violations over what the Queens DA characterized as a “warehouse of lethal shotguns and rifles.” (Photo: 105th Prescient) Officers with the New York Police Department’s 105th Precinct in Queens seized a table full of guns and an “enormous” amount of ammunition from an area man described
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the DoD this week stemming from its failure to prevent a former Airman from buying the rifle used in the Nov. 5, 2017 attack at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. (Photo: San Antonio Current) A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Pentagon this week over
Metro Nashville Police Department experts investigate the scene of a shooting at a Waffle House near Nashville, Tenn., April 22, 2018. (Photo: Metro Nashville Police Department) The man accused of gunning down six people at a Nashville area Waffle House over the weekend used a rifle confiscated by police last year. Lindsay Nichols, federal policy
Local media in gun control-heavy Quebec are reporting on an unlicensed firearms maker that operated out of a metal fabrication shop in Montreal. The French-language Le Journal de Montreal reported prosecutors this week are trying Pierre Larivière, 63, and Jean-Pierre Huot, 61, on a series of weapons charges following a 2014 incident in which Montreal
Adam Jackson, founder of Edge AI, developed facial recognition software capable of detecting violent offenders before they enter a soft target. (Photo: Beacon Center of Tennessee) A military veteran in Tennessee wants to install groundbreaking facial recognition software at vulnerable targets to thwart potential attacks — except a state licensing board won’t let him, according
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