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  • 9th Circuit upholds block on background checks for California ammunition buyers

    07/24/2025 2:32:09 PM PDT · by PROCON · 22 replies
    latimes.com ^ | July 24, 2025 | Sonja Sharp
    A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down a background check requirement implemented by California on buyers of ammunition for firearms. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that California’s policy of background checks for bullet-buyers violates the 2nd Amendment, effectively killing a 2016 ballot measure meant to strengthen the state’s notoriously stringent gun laws.Writing for two of the three judges on the appellate panel, Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta said the law “meaningfully constrains the right to keep operable arms” guaranteed by the Constitution, by forcing California gun owners to reauthorize before each ammunition purchase.“The right to...
  • Air Force Command Pauses Use of M18 Handguns After Security Airman's Death

    07/24/2025 8:01:04 AM PDT · by Blood of Tyrants · 44 replies
    Military.com ^ | 7/23/25 | Thomas Novelly
    An Air Force command is temporarily barring the use of issued Sig Sauer sidearms amid an investigation into the death of an airman at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming over the weekend. The active-duty Security Forces airman, assigned to the base's 90th Security Forces Squadron, "died on base while on duty" in the early morning hours Sunday, a news release from the base said. While the identity of the service member has not yet been made public, nor has the circumstances of their death, Air Force Global Strike Command, or AFGSC, issued an immediate order pausing the use...
  • Illegal migrant accused of shooting off-duty CBP officer in NYC was only vetted over Zoom before being set free under Biden admin: sources

    07/23/2025 5:29:48 AM PDT · by george76 · 11 replies
    New York Post ^ | July 23, 2025 | Jennie Taer
    The illegal immigrant accused of shooting an off-duty border officer in a Manhattan park was only vetted using Zoom before being released into the US under the Biden administration, The Post has learned. Dominican Republic national Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, waltzed across the US-Mexico border into Arizona in April 2023 — during the raging migrant crisis that saw federal agents take drastic measures in an attempt to free up resources. That month alone, the US saw a wave of more than 183,000 migrants come across the southern border. “The whole system was overwhelmed by what the Biden administration was...
  • The Butler Probabilities Were the Secret Service’s series of errors intentional?

    07/23/2025 8:27:27 AM PDT · by bitt · 52 replies
    https://spectator.org ^ | July 22, 2025, 10:00 PM | George Parry July 22, 2025, 10:00 PM
    “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” — Ian Fleming, Goldfinger “…probabilities cannot be bribed to deceive, and … they cannot be convicted of bearing false witness.” — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, Chapter 15 On July 13, 2024, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, before witnesses and unimpeded by law enforcement, climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building at the Butler Farm Show. He was 441 feet away from the stage on which candidate Donald Trump was addressing 15,000 enthusiastic supporters. From that perch, Crooks used a semi-automatic rifle to rapidly fire eight rounds at...
  • Romanian Brown Bear Population, Bear Attacks, and Hunting

    07/23/2025 5:37:03 AM PDT · by marktwain · 9 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | July 11, 2025 | Dean Weingarten
    Romania has the highest brown (grizzly) bear population in the European Union, and the highest number of fatal bear attacks. Russia has many more bears, including more in the European part of Russia, but most Russian bears are in Asia.A study using DNA, which started in 2022 and finished in 2025, is the most accurate measurement of Romanian brown bears. The study shows a brown bear population of between 10,419 and 12,770 in Romania, about twice the previously thought number.In 2021, estimates of the brown (grizzly) bear population ranged from 2,000 to 10,000. From rferl.org in 2021:The official number of...
  • Suspect in killing of San Leandro dog walker asked for directions before opening fire

    07/22/2025 7:42:12 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 23 replies
    KTVU ^ | July 22, 2025 | By Henry Lee and Aja Seldon
    SAN LEANDRO, Calif. - A man accused of fatally shooting a woman as she walked her dogs with her boyfriend in San Leandro had allegedly asked the couple for directions before opening fire, according to court records. Rohith Sunil, 21, of San Jose, has been charged with murder in the July 17 shooting death of Casey Lyn Way.
  • Sig M18 Pistols Pulled From Use By Air Force Global Strike Command

    07/22/2025 7:27:31 PM PDT · by Mariner · 50 replies
    The Warzone via Yahoo ^ | July 22nd, 2025 | Joseph Trevithick
    U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command (AFGSC) has ordered an indefinite “pause” in the use of M18 pistols following a recent fatal incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. This comes just two weeks after the disclosure of an FBI report that added to long-standing concerns about the ability of Sig Sauer P320-series pistols, a family that includes the M18, to fire without their triggers being pulled. Just days after that report became public, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a permanent ban on the use of P320s. TWZ just recently published an in-depth story on the...
  • VIDEO: Security guard in Anchorage, Alaska takes out active shooter outside bar

    07/22/2025 3:55:02 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 31 replies
    Police say 23-year-old Leroy Manogiamanu was killed early Sunday outside the Gaslight on West 4th Avenue. Three others were injured in the incident
  • KelTec Gun Factory In Rock Springs Aims To Churn Out 1,000 Pistols Per Week

    07/22/2025 9:54:29 AM PDT · by CFW · 31 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | 7/21/25 | Mark Heinz
    The operation was years in the making. The Florida-based company announced plans for its KelTec West factory in Rock Springs in 2022. Wyoming’s Second Amendment-friendly culture and politics played a big part in choosing Rock Springs when the company decided to expand its operating capacity, KelTec West plant operations manager Chris Williams told Cowboy State Daily. “At the time (2022), Florida was teetering purple,” he said about the political climate there. “Wyoming is a solid red state, and it looks like it’s going to stay solid for decades to come.” Other firearms companies that recently set up shop in Wyoming,...
  • Gun Ownership

    07/22/2025 6:53:01 AM PDT · by Gay State Conservative · 64 replies
    Self | 07/22/25 | Self
    I'm thinking of buying a firearm...the first one in 50+ years. Does anyone know if you're required to tell the insurance company that writes your Homeowner/Umbrella policy that you own one? I don't want to be sued by someone who's shot by someone who's stolen it only to find that the company requires a gun owner to tell them that they own one...and then find that the claim is denied due to my failure. Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.
  • Illegal Alien Involved in Shooting Border Patrol Agent in the Face

    07/21/2025 5:35:07 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 8 replies
    X ^ | July 20, 2025
    UPDATE: footage shows two assailants, one an illegal alien with criminal charges, ambushing and shooting a @CBP officer yesterday in New York City.
  • Noem blames 'sanctuary' policies for migrant accused of shooting off-duty CBP officer

    07/21/2025 9:36:17 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 21, 2025 | Greg Norman
    A second illegal migrant was apprehended in connection with the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in New YOrk City over the weekend during an attempted robbery, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday. Noem visited the CBP officer in the hospital, and blamed sanctuary policies for playing a role in the attack. The off-duty officer was allegedly struck in the face and forearm in Manhattan’s Riverside Park on Saturday night. Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a Dominican national who was caught by Border Patrol in April 2023, was taken into custody following the shooting. "There's absolutely zero...
  • ATF Pistol Brace Rule Tossed After DOJ Drops Appeal

    07/21/2025 2:50:27 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 39 replies
    Newsmax ^ | July 21, 2025 | Jim Thomas
    The Biden-era ATF rule restricting pistol braces was vacated Thursday after President Donald Trump's Department of Justice agreed to drop its appeal in a federal lawsuit, delivering a major victory to gun-rights advocates, Breitbart reported. The move marks a significant reversal in federal firearms regulation and concludes a lengthy legal battle over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' 2023 rule that reclassified AR-pistols with braces as short-barreled rifles under the National Firearms Act. "This afternoon, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the federal government agreed to a joint dismissal of the government's appeal in our Mock v. Bondi lawsuit,...
  • Anaheim jewelry store owner scares off mob of thieves by firing warning shot

    07/21/2025 7:22:20 AM PDT · by TheDon · 48 replies
    Fox Los Angeles ^ | July 20, 2025 | Matthew Seedorff
    An Anaheim businessowner recently scared off a mob of thieves trying to break into his store by firing a warning shot at the crowd. The whole thing was caught on store security footage. What we know: The attempted robbery happened at Al-Amira Jewelry on July 17. The owner told FOX 11 that it was close to closing time, when five cars pulled up to the front of the store. Security camera footage showed about 20 people piling out of the cars and mobbing the store's entrance. Some of them had sledgehammers and pickaxes and started smashing the door. Seconds later,...
  • San Francisco's 'Luigi: the Musical' shot me through the heart

    07/19/2025 2:58:20 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 27 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 18, 2025 | By Summer Maxwell
    I didn’t expect the highlight of my Tuesday night would be watching an actor portraying Luigi Mangione sing a ballad about hash browns, followed by a tap dance number featuring his cellmates Sean Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried (who happen to be falling in love). The plot is totally outrageous, but as “Luigi: the Musical” goes on, it becomes cathartic to sit in the warm haze of the Independent with over a hundred strangers and laugh, groan and marvel at the spectacle American life has become.
  • The Day America Could Have Died

    07/19/2025 7:17:54 AM PDT · by Swirl · 51 replies
    rumble: ConserveTheNation ^ | 7/13/2025 | Vincent Fusca
    Documentary of reactions from crowd following Butler attempted assassination. Includes interviews with surviving victims and witnesses. Very well done! 49 mins
  • Lawyer argues Call of Duty maker can’t be held responsible for actions of Uvalde, Texas, shooter

    07/18/2025 7:29:30 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 7:39 PM CDT, July 18, 2025 | ANDREW DALTON
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty argued Friday that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School attack in Uvalde, Texas, saying the contents of the war game are protected by the First Amendment. The families sued Call of Duty maker Activision and Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram, saying that the companies bear responsibility for promoting products used by the teen gunman. Three sets of parents who lost children in the shooting were in the audience at the Los Angeles hearing....
  • Grizzly bear shot after charging a man in Montana

    07/18/2025 11:44:53 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    KRTV ^ | Jul 17, 2025
    A grizzly bear charged a man near his residence along Foothill Road east of Kalispell on the night of July 10, 2025. According to Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, the person heard a disturbance outside and discovered the bear getting into a chicken coop. The bear charged at him, and the man shot and killed it. The man was not injured in the encounter. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is investigating the incident. This is at least the fifth such incident in recent weeks: A man shot and killed a grizzly bear that was threatening him on the northeast...
  • Firearm portal paused after security breach exposes gun safe locations in WA

    07/18/2025 6:41:38 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 15 replies
    The West Australian ^ | 07 18 2025 | Staff
    The $35 million firearms portal launched to enforce WA’s tough new gun laws has been paused after a security breach. But the Government rejected calls to halt the roll-out as “fear mongering” and senior police insisted the risk was “minor”. A Jarrahdale sports shooting club raised the alarm, after it realised a former club official was still able to access data that included the storage locations of firearms registered to the club’s corporate licence. Police said 10 people were linked to the club’s account and it appeared only one unauthorised person had inadvertently accessed the system. But Commander Lawrence Panaia...
  • FBI Releases Photo of Suspect Who Shot Gun At ICE During Marijuana Farm Raid — $50K Reward!

    07/17/2025 8:17:00 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 52 replies
    100 Percent Fed Up ^ | July 17, 2025 | Kaley
    Last week, during one of ICE’s biggest worksite raids yet at a marijuana farm in California, a rioter pulled out a gun and shot at agents. Thankfully, no one was hit. However, the suspect has not yet been apprehended. Today, the FBI released a photo of the suspect. They are asking the public for any information pertaining to his identity and offering a $50K reward for info leading to his arrest. See for yourself: The FBI is releasing a new photo in order to identify a suspected protester who brandished a pistol and fired toward agents conducting lawful activity in...