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  • Mother allegedly buys ammunition, tactical gear for son's planned 'mass targeted violence' at middle school: Officials

    05/14/2025 6:25:09 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 32 replies
    https://abcnews.go.com ^ | May 14 2025 | Megan Forrester
    A Texas mother has been arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son's planned "mass targeted violence" at his middle school, officials said. Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday and charged with aiding in commission of terrorism after she allegedly provided ammunition and tactical gear to her son, whose behavior demonstrated plans for a "mass targeted violence" aimed at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, according to an affidavit obtained by ABC News.
  • House Democrat Jill Tokuda Introducing Bill to Track Triggers, Gun Barrels

    05/14/2025 8:30:50 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2025 | AWR Hawkins
    U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-HI) is introducing legislation that would mandate triggers, barrels, and other gun parts be tracked after being sold. Island News reported that Tokuda’s bill, the Gun Hardware Oversight and Shipment Tracking Act (Ghost Act), is designed to track gun parts as a way of helping law enforcement find so-called “ghost guns.” Hawaii News Now noted the legislation “will allow law enforcement to track gun parts coming into the state and who ordered them.” Tokuda said, “Let’s not make it easy for people to buy the parts that they need to make weapons of destruction, endangering law...
  • Five Suspected Tren de Aragua Members Shot Inside Mexico City Bar

    05/14/2025 6:58:20 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 33 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 5-13-25 | Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby
    A group of gunmen fired into a crowded bar, hitting five Venezuelan migrants suspected of being members of the Tren De Aragua gang. Two of the TDA members died during the attack, while three others sustained injuries. The attack occurred on Monday night at the Foro Santa Maria bar in Mexico City’s Cuauhtemoc borough. The gunmen, who remain at large, went into the bar, fired over two dozen shots at the table where the five victims were seated, and then fled. The victims included three men and two women. By the time paramedics arrived, two of the men had died...
  • Huge NJ home explosion ruled murder-suicide after one body found with bullet to the head

    05/14/2025 7:54:25 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/14/2025 | Emily Crane
    The New Jersey home that exploded with a man and a woman inside was the shocking end of a murder-suicide, according to authorities who found one of the victims had been shot in the head. The bodies of the victims, who have not yet been publicly identified, were recovered from the burnt-out home after the fiery blast rocked Tranquility Court in Gloucester County’s Washington Township early Sunday. Investigators have since revealed the woman’s charred remains were located in a bed and that she had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office said.
  • Gun groups charge betrayal by GOP

    05/14/2025 6:09:24 AM PDT · by Yo-Yo · 34 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | May 13, 2025 | Paul Bedard
    Gun lobbyists are expressing dismay with a compromise on silencers included in the fast-tracked budget bill and the GOP’s slow-walking of another demand to stop the taxing and registration of commonly owned AR-15 style pistols. On Monday, the House Ways and Means Committee released its plan, and while it stripped a $200 tax on the sale of silencers, it still required registration and sale approval by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. That angered some gun groups who have been calling for an end to the tax and ATF registration of suppressors, which many consider a hearing safety...
  • Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Moves to Make Firearms Licenses Shall Issue

    05/14/2025 4:19:28 AM PDT · by marktwain · 2 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | May 12, 2025 | Dean Weingarten
    In a parliamentary election in Trinidad and Tobago, held on April 28th, 2025, the United National Congress (UNC) party won 26 of 41 seats, returning Kamla Persad-Bissessar to power as Prime Minister after 10 years on the sidelines. From caribbeanamericanpassport.com: At age 73, Persad-Bissessar becomes the first person in the nation’s history to serve non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister, having previously held the office from 2010 to 2015. She remains the only woman to have led the twin-island Caribbean nation.Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar made reform of defense laws and access to legal firearms a core part of her campaign. Law-abiding citizens...
  • ‘Unintentional Discharge’: L.A. police officer’s rifle fires round in parking garage

    05/13/2025 10:16:04 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 34 replies
    ktla ^ | Josh DuBose
    An investigation is underway after a Los Angeles police officer’s personal rifle accidentally fired a round in a parking garage earlier this week, officials announced. The May 9 incident occurred in the lower-level parking structure of the Compton Courthouse, located at 200 West Compton Boulevard, according to an LAPD news release. The officer, who has not been identified, was reportedly standing outside his patrol vehicle and was “manipulating his personally owned patrol rifle, when a Non-Tactical Unintentional Discharge occurred,” police said. Surrounded by concrete, the bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and struck the roof of the officer’s unoccupied patrol vehicle.
  • GOP senators demand swift action against Biden-era ATF bureaucrats who allegedly ‘defrauded taxpayers’ of $20M — and still work for federal govt.

    05/13/2025 3:37:28 PM PDT · by Twotone · 11 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 12, 2025 | Victor Nava
    Republican Iowa Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley called on the Justice Department Monday to hold Biden-era Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives officials accountable for allegedly orchestrating an “illegal scheme” to “misclassify” administrative positions as law enforcement ones for greater pay and benefits. “We raised concerns because as a result of ATF’s illegal conduct, ATF staff assigned to these positions performed administrative work but unlawfully received enhanced law enforcement pay and benefits to which they were not entitled, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars,” Ernst and Grassley wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, ATF Acting Director...
  • Spencer Interview: Obama’s FBI Helped Jihadis in Garland, Texas in 2015

    05/13/2025 1:46:44 PM PDT · by DFG · 9 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 05/13/2025 | Amy Mek
    Ten years after the Garland jihad attack, it’s time for our government to investigate the FBI’s role in facilitating an Islamic assassination plot, silencing the truth, and betraying the very Americans it swore to protect.” Ten years ago, Islamic terrorists opened fire at a free speech event in Garland, Texas, targeting Americans who dared to draw Muhammad. The event, officially titled the ‘American Freedom Defense Initiative and Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest,’ was held on May 3, 2015, at the Curtis Culwell Center. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer organized it as a direct counterpunch to the slaughter...
  • Single mom who beat cancer four times killed by random bullet fired at home

    05/13/2025 1:41:48 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 55 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 13, 2025 | By Emily Crane
    A Colorado single mom who managed to beat cancer four times was killed when a stranger who claimed he was just cleaning his gun fired bullets into her home, cops said. Jennifer James, 49, was fatally shot when 20-year-old Ebenezer Worku allegedly opened fire from his car while parked outside the victim’s house in Berthoud, north of Denver, on April 28. The gunman told police that he accidentally shot at the home with his Glock 22 handgun — and then fired again when he was trying to clear the chamber, KDVR reported, citing a police affidavit.
  • Second Mexican mayoral candidate gunned down live on air ahead of June 1 elections

    05/13/2025 12:39:33 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 53 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 13, 2025, | Anthony Blair
    Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez of the governing Morena party was gunned down while she was greeting supporters in the small town of Texistepec in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz on Sunday, where she was running for election. As she walks through the smiling and chanting crowd, gunfire suddenly rings out off camera. Some 20 gunshots can be heard in the video, which was still up on Gutiérrez’s Facebook page until the following day. Gutiérrez’s daughter was also killed in the shooting along with two others, while three more were wounded, Veracruz Governor Rocío Nahle García, also from the Morena party...
  • Sometimes We Have to Take the Good When the Perfect Isn’t an Option

    05/13/2025 8:55:43 AM PDT · by absalom01 · 9 replies
    Shooting News Weekly ^ | May 12, 2025 | Dan Zimmerman
    So what’s happening to the bill in the Ways and Means committee? We’d guess it’s realpolitik. It sounds like Cox and Rep. Kustoff have recognized that they have a snowball’s chance in Hell of passing the bill delisting suppressors and rather than throwing their hands up and saying, ‘Oh well, we gave it the old college try,’ they’ve decided to take a big step in the right direction.A tax stamp has cost $200 since it was enacted as part of the NFA in 1934. While inflation has whittled the real value of that away over the decades, it’s still not...
  • Three people injured after fight at Big Ed's restaurant in Raleigh, shots fired [video, but guess first]

    05/12/2025 1:22:36 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 37 replies
    WRAL ^ | 5/12/2025 | Staff
    Three people were injured Sunday when a fight broke out and shots were fired at Big Ed's restaurant off Falls of Neuse Road in Raleigh. Around 11:50 a.m., officers with the Raleigh Police Department responded to a report of shots fired at Big Ed's in the 5000 block of Falls of Neuse Road. Police said a fight broke out and shots were fired. Two people were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries related to the fight, and a third person suffered a graze wound. At 12:45 p.m., police said there was no active threat to the community, and no...
  • Fight at a funeral in Connecticut erupts into gunfire and stabbing, wounding 2

    05/12/2025 9:56:09 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 67 replies
    msn.com ^ | https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/fight-at-a-funeral-in-connecticut-erupts-into-gunfire-and-stabb
    members at a funeral in Connecticut spiraled into a melee in which one man was stabbed and a woman grazed by gunfire, police said. Witnesses and police described a chaotic scene as people threw punches and gunshots rang out as people screamed and the crowd of about 150 mourners poured out of Gospel Lighthouse Apostolic Church, north of downtown Hartford. Police said there was shooting both inside and outside the church. “You can imagine what 150 people scrambling out of the church looked like,” said police Lt. Aaron Boisvert, who said bullets damaged the interior. No arrests were announced. Police...
  • Fatal Bear Attack Recorded for First Time in Florida

    05/12/2025 9:06:47 AM PDT · by marktwain · 38 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | May 9, 2025 | Dean Weingarten
    An 89-year-old Florida grandfather appears to have been attacked and killed by a black bear during the early morning hours of May 5th, near Jerome, Florida. Jerome is a rural area on the opposite side of the state from Miami, between the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area and the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, part of the Everglades.The relative of 89-year-old Robert Markel called 911 to report that a bear had killed Markel’s dog as the relative had watched, and that the elderly relative was missing. The call was made about 7 a.m. From fox4news.com:“No, he’s gone completely. His whole...
  • California Democrats Push Bill That Could Ban Glock Handguns

    05/12/2025 8:27:25 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/12/2025 | AWR Hawkins
    California Democrats are currently pushing a bill that could ban law-abiding citizens from buying Glock handguns in an attempt to stop criminals from using “Glock switches.” “Glock switches” are federally prohibited plastic pieces that can be affixed to the rear of a Glock slide to make the pistol shoot full auto. It has become in vogue for leftists to target Glock over the illegal use of the switches. For example, on March 19, 2024, Breitbart News noted that Chicago filed a lawsuit against Glock over the switches, although many of the switches in the U.S. originated in China. On February...
  • Teen charged with murder after boy, 12, killed making music video in Philly home

    05/12/2025 8:28:58 AM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 36 replies
    Fox 29(Philadelphia) ^ | 05/11/2025 | staff
    ---SNIP--- Ethan Parker, 12, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his chest on the 1500 block of East Pastorius Street in the middle of the day on Saturday. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead just before 1 p.m. Parker and two teens were making a music video with guns, when one went off and killed the 12-year-old boy. Police recovered the gun and said other weapons were found in the home.
  • Tehama County teens arrested for alleged school attack plot

    05/12/2025 6:37:55 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 13 replies
    Krcr ^ | Sun, May 11th 2025 at 10:39 PM | by Sophia Bruinsma
    Sheriff's Office in Press Release 5/11/2025, Two teenagers from Tehama County were arrested after allegedly plotting an attack on Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, authorities said. The investigation began on May 9, 2025, when a Tennessee resident contacted the Tehama County Sheriff's Office. The individual reported concerns after engaging in online gaming with one of the teens, who discussed school violence and shared a manifesto and plans targeting the school.... The suspect also sent photographs of himself and an accomplice posing in attire similar to the Columbine school shooters, according to the sheriff's office. Allegedly, the attack was initially planned...
  • Twisted act of career criminal after shooting dead beautiful North Carolina college girl

    05/11/2025 11:53:55 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 25 replies
    Dairy Mail ^ | May 11, 2025 | By RACHEL BOWMAN
    The career criminal charged with killing a young aspiring teacher went on a 'shopping spree' with stolen credit cards after callously shooting her dead. Alexander Dickey, 30, was arrested on May 4 after going on a violent rampage that included theft, grand larceny, arson and murder. Police said Dickey kicked off his crime spree by breaking into a home on Cypress Street in Columbia, South Carolina, and killing 22-year-old Logan Federico.
  • This Court Case Could Blow a Grand Canyon-Sized Hole Through Federal Gun Laws

    05/11/2025 11:39:51 AM PDT · by george76 · 55 replies
    Townhall ^ | May 10, 2025 | Jeff Charles
    Does the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms apply to fully automatic machine guns? The US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee is poised to rule on the matter. Jaquan Bridges pleaded guilty to possessing a machine gun after engaging in a 2023 shootout with police officers on a Tennessee highway. Courthouse News reported that Bridges “was arrested with a Glock .40 caliber pistol with an attachment that converted the handgun into a machine gun, but fought to dismiss the charge on constitutional grounds.” He claimed the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York State...