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Officer Krystal Rivera’s family says in the wrongful death suit that Officer Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he shot her in her back in Chatham on June 5. The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday in which she says her daughter’s partner, Officer Carlos Baker, was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase on June 5. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County court against Baker and the Chicago Police Department, says the...

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System numbers decreased significantly for November 2025 compared to November 2024. An increase in firearm sales is normal for November. It happened in 2025, but firearm sales are 7% lower than those in November 2024. About 1.41 million firearm sales occurred in November of 2025, as estimated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. 1.51 million firearms were estimated to be sold in November last year. The number of background checks for November was much lower than expected, about 2.09 million. It is the lowest number of background checks in November since 2014, more than...

President Donald Trump shared an update that he received a call that wounded 24-year-old West Virginia National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe “got up from bed.” During a rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Trump spoke about a “tragic incident” in Washington, D.C., which left three people shot, including Wolfe and U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20. Trump spoke about Beckstrom, who he said was looking down “from Heaven, from above.” “Today, I got a call that he got up from bed,” Trump told the crowd about Wolfe. “Do you believe that? He got up. He got up. Now, he didn’t...

A Kentucky sheriff who was caught on camera shooting a local judge at point-blank range has admitted to the murder but pleaded 'not guilty' in court - and a new filing offers insight into his possible defense. Lawyers representing ex-Letcher County Sheriff Shawn 'Mickey' Stines argued in court documents that he 'lacked the capacity to intend' to shoot and kill his good friend, District Court Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, in September 2024, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Stines lawyers' said the sheriff was 'exhibiting paranoid and psychotic conduct' when he shot the judge inside his chambers. The legal team also laid...

A homeowner in the Italian province of Rovigo used a firearm to defend himself from armed intruders in 2025. The precise date has not been published. The Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni defended the reform of Italian defense law, which has protected the homeowner from having his name made public. The law protected the homeowner from an intense investigation as someone suspected of using lethal force in an illegitimate manner.During the Fascist regime of Mussolini, the Italian laws about self defense were made very restrictive. Controls on the ownership of firearms were tightened. Italy reformed its law on self defense...

Multiple people were injured in a shooting at Kentucky State University on Tuesday afternoon. A suspect has been taken into custody. “We are aware of a reported shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. At this time, we are aware of some injuries. We will share more information as available. Law enforcement are on scene, and a suspect has been arrested. Let’s pray for all those affected,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on Tuesday. We are aware of a reported shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. At this time, we are aware of some injuries. We will share more...

WARNING: This story contains graphic information. Viewer discretion is advised. STAMFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A man who opened fire on police during a standoff last week in Stamford was wearing a military uniform shirt with a Nazi insignia on the collar, according to the Connecticut Office of the Inspector General’s preliminary report. A state marshal arrived at a home in the 200 block of Oaklawn Avenue around 9 a.m. on Dec. 2 to evict 63-year-old Jed Parkington and his wife following a foreclosure. Police find decomposing body in Stamford home where barricaded suspect took his life According to the report,...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) pushed for restoring the ban on assault weapons and banning high-capacity magazines by claiming that if the school shooter in Uvalde, TX “didn’t have two AR-15s, but had a single handgun because he couldn’t get his hands on two assault weapons at the age of 18,” “then we wouldn’t have the high death rates” in the shooting that we do.

STOCKTON, Calif. — Officials confirmed Tuesday that they are seeking multiple people in connection with the Stockton mass shooting that left four people dead and 13 more injured during a 2-year-old's birthday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A woman is accused of pointing a long gun at another woman who was attempting to retrieve her food delivery order that was dropped off at the wrong house in Nashville, according to an arrest affidavit. Officers responded to a report of an assault involving a gun in the 1800 block of Blair Boulevard on Thursday. As they arrived, the victim told officers she had ordered food through DoorDash. The victim said the delivery driver mistakenly left the order at the wrong address. The photo from the delivery driver indicated the food was dropped off at...

Elon Musk has restated why the First and Second Amendments exist in the United States. On November 29, 2025, from X.com: And this is why we have the first and second amendments in America. Elon was reacting to a story out of the United Kingdom. British police harassed a British subject who had dared to hold firearms while in Florida, and then post images of him doing so on his LinkedIn account.According to a Daily Mail article:The 50-year-old said he offered to prove that the pictures had been taken in the US – where owning or shooting guns are perfectly...

A Florida circuit judge refused to halt the long-planned and anticipated Florida bear hunt. The bear hunt is the first to be allowed since 2014-15, when 305 bears were harvested in two days. Bear Warriors United, a non-profit association, attempted to stop the hunt. Here is the first sentence in Bear Warriors United vision: Our vision is to create a Florida where people and wildlife coexist in balance and mutual respect. The vision implies nature is in balance without humans, and animals are legitimately regarded as the equal of humans. It is a basic misunderstanding of reality. There is no...

Rahmanullah Lakawal, the Afghan national who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington DC, killing one of them, shared a close tie with an Afghan “suicide bomber” arrested in Texas the day before the shooting. The New York Post has revealed that Lakanwal and Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, who was arrested for making terroristic threats, both worked at the same US military base in Afghanistan for years. It’s not yet known if the two men interacted with each other at the base. “Alokozay used to be in this unit for six years. He was guarding the towers inside the base,” Gen. Haibatullah...

Last night a vehicle approached our property and opened fire. No one was hurt. Our security team is reviewing the incident and will be relaying the report to appropriate law enforcement This is the price we pay for speaking out against evil.

Two men were arrested after authorities found 30 handguns allegedly destined for Mexico hidden in a spare tire during an inspection on the southern border in Texas, officials said Friday. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) seized the weapons this week at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Mission, a town on the Texas-Mexico border, the agency said. DPS special agents searched a 2015 Chevy pickup as part of a multi-agency task force with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. "During the inspection, special agents discovered 30 handguns, including a...

Could the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) protection of the National Firearms Act (NFA) in Silencer Shop v BATF be a tactical move to bring the case to the Supreme Court? The Supreme Court case United States v Windsor upended centuries of precedent and jurisprudence in the United States by finding a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional. The Obama administration played a key part in this policy shift by claiming the act was constitutional, thus protecting “standing” in the case. Later, the Obama DOJ switched sides and agreed with Windsor that the Defense of...

Santa Ana police have arrested four adults and a 15-year-old boy in connection with a September shooting that left a 13-year-old dead and three other juveniles wounded, authorities announced Friday.

A Brazilian Harvard Law School professor who pleaded guilty last month to illegally firing an air rifle outside a Boston-area synagogue — and told police he was “hunting rats” — has agreed to leave the US following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week. Carlos Portugal Gouvea, 43, copped Nov. 13 to a single charge of illegal use of the air rifle in connection with the Oct. 2 incident outside of Brookline’s Temple Beth Zion, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. The scholar was arrested by ICE Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)...

A notebook detailed alleged attack plans against University of Delaware police, including multiple references to "martyrdom."A Delaware man has been charged with illegally possessing a machine gun after authorities uncovered a weapons cache and a handwritten manifesto referencing a University of Delaware police station and officer, according to a Dec. 1 release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Luqmaan Khan, 25, was arrested Nov. 24 after New Castle County Police officers found him parked illegally in Canby Park West late at night. Officers stopped his vehicle and, after he resisted arrest, searched the car. Inside, they found a modified Glock handgun with...

Licenses Delayed, Rights Denied is a scholarly article that informs readers of the means six outlier states use to deny ordinary citizens their rights to keep and bear arms. The article is another excellent example of scholarship by Mark Smith, member of the Supreme Court Bar, distinguished Second Amendment scholar, and host of the Four Boxes Diner on YouTube. He is also a contributor at AmmoLand.com. The article has been published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Per Curiam, Fall of 2025, No. 23. The six states that are actively working to undermine the Bruen methodology are...