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Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italian tourists who allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in 'human safari' hunting trips to Sarajevo, with extra charged to kill children. The wealthy foreign gun enthusiasts are accused of travelling to the city for 'sniper tourism' during its four-year siege in the 1990s by Serb-Bosnian militias amid the Bosnian War. Between 1992 and 1996, more than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by shelling and sniper fire in the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. The tourists, who are understood to have had ties...

The adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers from the FBI show almost no change for firearms sales and for background checks, comparing October 2025 with October 2024.There has been a slight decrease in adjusted firearms sales, from 1.303 million to 1.299 million, a difference of about 0.3% of sales. The total NICS background checks fell from 2.298 million to 2.289 million, about a 0.4% decrease in background checks. There have only been four Octobers in the last 26 years with numbers higher than those in 2024 and 2025.NSSF NICS Report October 2025 NSSF NICS Report October 2025...

... The officer was on his way back to Fullerton after transporting an inmate to the Orange County Jail, police said. ... In video from the scene, the man is dressed in plainclothes, with a badge on his belt. He approaches the car while holding his gun near his chest, pointing it at the woman’s vehicle. He and the woman, recording from inside her vehicle, exchange words as he approaches. “You can’t be following us like that,” the agent says at one point. “I live here,” the woman responds. He told the police officer the woman in the vehicle behind...

A 79-year-old Vietnam Veteran who shot and killed a naked intruder in Studio City late last week is recovering after suffering two broken legs during the terrifying ordeal.

On November 8th, CCTV captured a group of armed individuals wearing construction worker's uniforms lay in wait for former mayoral candidate for El Tejar, Elías Ramírez in Guatemala. He was a former mayor candidate of the city and he was also a political activist and owned a large construction company that secured various projects of state contracts which allegedly used his connection and influence for these contracts. He is seen walking down a the road when five armed man with assault rifles disembark and indiscriminately shoot at him and subsequently his wife, as an overkill these armed persons unload their...

The first video “Richard LA” posted to TikTok appeared on Aug. 21, 2024. “Accident at 27th and San Pedro,” he wrote in Spanish under video clips showing two damaged cars and paramedics pushing a man on a gurney into an ambulance. “2 people were taken to the hospital.” “Richard LA” was actually Carlitos Ricardo Parias, 44, a father of two living in southern Los Angeles. His TikTok feed soon filled with similar clips. A fire at a home on 36th and Trinity streets. A car crash on 29th Street and Maple Avenue. His audience grew steadily over the ensuing months....

ROTTERDAM, NY (WRGB) — A Rotterdam woman is accused of threatening to shoot a Schenectady County legislator. Josh Cuomo is running for re-election on the Republican and Conservative line. He says he was going door-to-door in Rotterdam with his family when a woman asked him if he was a Trump supporter. Cuomo says that’s when she started becoming aggressive.

Mythbusters: What happens if you store your ammunition and loaded guns in an over, forget that they're in the oven, and turn the over on?

A 79-year-old military veteran armed with a gun shot and killed a naked intruder early Friday morning during an attempted burglary in a Studio City neighborhood, police told NBC4 Investigates. The deadly altercation unfolded near Tujunga Avenue and Sarah Street, where police responded at about 7 a.m. to a report of a shooting. The Vietnam veteran heard screaming coming from outside a neighbor's house in the San Fernando Valley community and confronted the naked intruder, the LAPD said. Two women were inside the house, located southwest of the 170-101/134 freeway interchange, during the break-in, police said. During the ensuing struggle,...

Federal prosecutors say the FBI has broken up an ISIS-linked network stretching from Michigan to New Jersey, charging several young men in a coordinated investigation that allegedly involved plans for a Halloween mass shooting and efforts to join the Islamic State abroad. Tomas Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, New Jersey, and Saed Mirreh, 19, of Kent, Washington, were arrested this week in a New Jersey case tied to others already charged in Michigan. The Justice Department announced the new charges Wednesday, calling the probe a "sprawling federal investigation" into extremists who used encrypted messaging to communicate. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said...

Maria Florinda Rios Perez was fatally shot after arriving at the wrong home for a house-cleaning appointment US officials are looking into whether to file charges against an Indiana homeowner who shot and killed a house cleaner who mistakenly showed up at the wrong address. Police say they found Maria Florinda Rios Perez dead in her husband's arms on the front porch of a home on Wednesday shortly before 0700 local time (12:00 GMT). Authorities had been responding to a call about a possible home invasion in the Indianapolis suburb of Whitestown. The two did not appear to have entered...

A man allegedly opened fired on Border Patrol agents in Chicago Saturday. The shooter was driving a Jeep when the shots were fired near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue, as the agents conducted immigration enforcement operations, the US Department of Homeland Security wrote on

Antonio Brown, a former NFL star and wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was extradited from Dubai to the United States on Thursday and faces an attempted murder charge. It can be recalled that Brown, joined by ex-teammate Le’Veon Bell, spoke at a Trump rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in October 2024, where they endorsed his presidential run. During his remarks on stage before tens of thousands of Trump supporters, Brown slammed Trump’s Democrat opponents while defending his support for the 45th and 47th President. “I know the media is going to call me crazy, me and Trump crazy, for having...

Gun-control advocates in Maine have a new reason to celebrate following the 2025 off-year election. Pine-Tree State voters officially approved ballot Question 2 Tuesday night by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent, according to the Associated Press. The measure will expand the authority of state authorities to temporarily confiscate firearms from people deemed a threat to themselves or others, in the form of a so-called red flag order. “Do you want to allow courts to temporarily prohibit a person from having dangerous weapons if law enforcement, family, or household members show that the person poses a significant danger...

“We Know Nothing” – Eric Trump Slams PA State and FBI Silence on Butler Assassination Attempt Republished with permission from AbleChild. Eric Trump is demanding that investigators solve the mystery behind the alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who reportedly tried to kill his father at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania more than a year ago. For those who for months have been asking for the FBI to release its investigation of the assassination attempt, Eric’s demands seem fair. The President’s son reports during an interview on Pod Force One with Miranda Devine that “I’m very far away from being...

A mom of four from Indiana was fatally gunned down after arriving at the wrong address for her cleaning job — and her grieving husband, who watched her die, is now demanding justice. Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, 32, was shot dead just before 7 a.m. Wednesday as she and her husband, Mauricio Velázquez, arrived at a Whitestown home they’d been hired to clean, IndyStar reported. The couple, who are self-employed cleaners, checked the address twice and circled the neighborhood — a tiny suburb about 22 miles from Downtown Indianapolis — to make sure they were in the right place, the...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Abby Zwerner, the former Richneck Elementary School teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in 2023, has emerged victorious in her civil lawsuit surrounding the shooting. A jury found Ebony Parker, the school's former assistant principal, grossly negligent in preventing the shooting.

Police in Port St. Lucie, Florida, were called to a bar after a disagreement over chickens led to shots being fired and several arrests. WPTV said it happened at about 2:48 a.m. on Nov. 4 in a bar’s parking lot after the business had closed for the night. “There was a conversation about how many, I kid you not, how many eggs a chicken can lay. And that conversation got a little heated, and as it went out into the parking lot, the conversation continued, and the shooter became agitated, became paranoid,” Sgt. Dominick Mesiti said. Three of the four...

SANFORD, Fla. - A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend and their unborn son after she refused to get an abortion is facing the death penalty. Donovan Faison, 23, was convicted last week in the first-degree murder of Kaylin Fiengo, of killing an unborn child and of burglary with a firearm. The jury later voted 11-1 to sentence Faison to death, the Office of the State Attorney said in a news release Friday. Faison shot Fiengo in the head as she sat in her car at Coastline Park in Sanford in 2022. Investigators discovered a bullet casing and an...

The election results should disabuse every affable conservative that there are ‘level-headed Democrats.’ Your Democrat friends might be friendly to you, but they just voted for a guy who wants you and your family dead.In what should be an unsurprising development to every conservative in America, the “everyday normal Democrat voter” we are all told exists just came out in numbers to vote for assassination fetishist Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia.We often hear some version of: I know their political leadership wants to groom and mutilate as many children as possible, kill as many unborn...