By Tom Knighton Bearing Arms Many of us are parents. Our kids are either young or were at one time. My daughter is closing in on being 12-years-old and it amazes me how much she’s grown. Yet like most kids her age, she’s interested in all sorts of things not entirely different than what girls were into when I was 12. I couldn’t imagine her walking up to some people and pulling a gun on them. Yet in Arizona, a 12-year-old did precisely that. Juvenile crime has been going up—and it’s turning more violent. Very young offenders are showing up with guns…
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By JBboch GunsSaveLife.com Yesterday, some of us fumed over the Illinois State Police launching their ammo registration portal on the Firearms “Services” Bureau (you’re the one that’s gonna get serviced). Then we all saw the news of the barbarian Hamas terrorists attacking Israel, slaughtering women and children after they raped them and taking plenty more hostage. And don’t forget about parading dead and sometimes naked bodies of those they killed back in the Gaza Strip. Something else big happened in America’s heartland. Chicago surpassed 500 homicides for the year. 500 homicides. Think about that. Five hundred homicides in a single city. The macabre milestone…
By Dean Weingarten AmmoLand John Lott and Carlisle E. Moody have authored a paper examining the effect of the Lautenberg Amendment prohibition on the possession of firearms by people subject to a domestic violence restraining order. The relevant statute is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8). From the abstract: We find that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) has no statistically significant beneficial impact on domestic murder, domestic femicide, domestic gun murder, or domestic gun femicide. Lott and Moody’s paper shows no policy advantages gained from the federal ban on the possession of firearms by people under a domestic violence restraining order. The ban fails to…
By Brandon Curtis Concealed Nation In Midwest City, Oklahoma, a man intervened when his girlfriend’s estranged husband, Mauricio Alexander Delarosa, allegedly broke into their home. This event sparked support from a neighbor for the state’s permissive firearm laws. Oklahoma law allows residents 21 and older to openly or concealed carry firearms without requiring a permit. The altercation happened on a Wednesday morning on Flannery Drive. The residents were alerted by their dog’s barking, and the male homeowner went to investigate. He encountered Delarosa inside the residence. The police identified Delarosa as the estranged husband of the female homeowner. He was unknown to…
By TTAG Contributor The Truth About Guns Finger guns, the lethal weapons of choice of absolutely no one, are in the news again. Every so often we write about over-the-top reactions to harmless things or actions with some nebulous but apparently nefarious gun-related nexus, like the by-now notorious case of the seven-year-old second-grader suspended for chewing a breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun A school official admitted that while a student “used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class,” there were no “physical threats” made and no one was harmed. In another case, a ten-year-old boy was suspended from elementary school after “making his fingers look…
Wendy Munson was arrested and charged with DUI and child abuse with possibility of great bodily injury. by Law Officer Law Officer LIVE OAK, Calif. – Deputies in Northern California responded to an unusual call for service Monday morning at an elementary school in Sutter County regarding a second-grade teacher who was reportedly with students in her class after driving to work impaired, according to a report. A staff member at Nuestro Elementary School in Live Oak contacted the Sutter County Sheriff’s Department to report the alleged intoxicated teacher. Deputies responded and saw the accused educator, identified as 57-year-old Wendy Munson, in…
By Brandon Curtis Concealed Nation A disturbing incident in Oregon was captured on doorbell video, showing a man, Dominic Austin (19), spouting racial slurs and violently threatening a black mother and her daughter, Nubrittany and Tasha Smith, in their apartment. The episode began on June 29, with Austin, reportedly holding a knife, banged on their door, directing racial abuses and death threats at them. The victims claim that they lived in constant fear, receiving threats for weeks after moving into the Gresham apartment, with Austin residing above them. Austin faces multiple charges including menacing and unlawful use of a weapon, after his…
By Tom Knighton Bearing Arms I can’t even imagine being married to a serial killer. It’s not that I can’t picture my wife taking a gun, a frying pan, or whatever and killing someone, it’s just that I can’t see her murdering anyone who isn’t me. In fairness, I’d probably be asking for it with my typical smart-aleck responses to almost everything. As such, I can’t even imagine what it’s like for the estranged wife of the alleged Gilgo Beach killer. But she’s experiencing all of it, and now she’s asking for all the guns the police seized from her husband. The…
By Brandon Curtis Concealed Nation ATLANTA, GEORGIA — Early on a recent Saturday, a man suffering from gunshot wounds was discovered at a gentleman’s club in northwest Atlanta, according to law enforcement. Authorities responded to the incident at the Blue Flame Gentleman’s Club shortly before 2 a.m. Reportedly, the individual was shot at a different location before arriving at the club. He was promptly transported to Grady Memorial Hospital and remains conscious and responsive. Investigations are underway to determine the exact location and reason for the shooting incident. Authorities are piecing together evidence to uncover the circumstances surrounding this event. Find the…
By Brandon Curtis Concealed Nation A robber got turned into an actual pancake directly after robbing someone as they sat in their vehicle. Directly after the robbery, the bad guy walked to his motorcycle parked behind the car he just robbed. Without much thought, the driver of the car threw it in reverse and hit the gas, pinning the bad guy between his car and another, killing him. We have to think about the legalities of this type of action, as many states in the U.S. would consider the threat gone and retreating. There are some states that this person…