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In a video timed to coincide with Mother’s Day weekend, the mother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin urged people around the country to push for new scrutiny of “stand your ground” self-defense laws like those in Florida and about two dozen other states. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer who fatally shot the [...] The city of Austin, Texas, was looking for an excuse to steal Joe Del Rio’s modest home. It found one – it insisted he had a “bunker” beneath the house. Actually, it was a fallout shelter built during the Cold War, something millions of Americans were encouraged to build by the federal government, beginning [...] A report issued on Tuesday by Ammoland Shooting Sports News indicates that the ATF–the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives–is engaged in new illegal activity, this time in the state of Alaska. According to gun store owners in Anchorage, ATF agents are requiring that they submit what is called ’4473 Forms’ going [...] Jail officials earlier this week found a loaded revolver hidden inside the pant of an unrestrained prisoner, a source tells FOX 4′s Lynn Kawano. According to the source, narcotics officers on Monday had arrested the suspect for allegedly making drug deals at a DART platform. Police searched the suspect several times but [...] President Barack Obama has threatened to veto a Department of Justice appropriations bill House Republicans passed because, among other things, it includes a provision that blocks a gun control rule passed in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious. The Obama administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wrote, and began implementing, [...] An 84-year-old western Pennsylvania man and Korean War vet shot and wounded a home invasion suspect, and then forgave the man’s family when they came to apologize. Police said Raymond Hiles, 25, was captured Tuesday not long after trying to break into Fred Ricciutti’s Elizabeth Township home, about 15 miles south of [...] A 52-year-old man has potentially life-threatening injuries after accidentally shooting himself in the chest at the Scottsdale Gun Club on Tuesday afternoon, police said. He was conscious and talking while being taken to a hospital, said David Pubins, a spokesman for the Scottsdale Police Department. Representatives of the Scottsdale Gun Club had no comment. The [...] Kansas Senator Jerry Moran introduced legislation to prohibit the Obama administration from negotiating away our gun rights as part of the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a backdoor attempt to impose massive restrictions on U.S. gun rights. While negotiations on the treaty are being held behind closed doors, it [...] El Paso has become an important firearms-smuggling center for the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is engaged in an ongoing battle against its rivals in Juárez and Mexico, according to a new U.S. congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious. |
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