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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A marathon session of the State Senate that began Tuesday ended early Wednesday morning with a bill banning “convertible pistols” being passed.At the state Capitol, legislators voted largely by party lines, except for Republican Tomy Hwang, who joined the Democrats in support, and Democrat Cathy Osten, who joined Republicans in opposition.

A Maryland man was the first to come across one of two hikers seriously hurt in a Monday afternoon Yellowstone National Park grizzly attack, hearing the man call for help before coming across the man “tore up pretty bad.” “I was hiking up Mystic Falls Trail when I saw bear prints in the mud,” Craig Lerman told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday morning. “I kept walking a little further and saw a bloody hat with a watch torn off.” Lerman, from Baltimore, was hiking on the Mystic Falls Trail when he was the first person on the scene after the...

A Maryland man was the first to come across one of two hikers seriously injured in a grizzly bear attack Monday afternoon in Yellowstone National Park. He heard the man calling for help before finding him “tore up pretty bad.” “I was hiking up Mystic Falls Trail when I saw bear prints in the mud,” Craig Lerman told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday morning. “I kept walking a little further and saw a bloody hat with a watch torn off.” Lerman, from Baltimore, was hiking on the Mystic Falls Trail when he was the first person on the scene after...

The Supreme Court of Maryland handed Maryland Shall Issue and other challengers a significant, but not total, victory in their challenge to Montgomery County’s sweeping firearms ordinance. The lawsuit was commenced in 2021.On April 28, 2026, on x.com, Maryland Shall Issue posted this:In 2021, Montgomery County, Maryland, the State’s most populous county, enacted an ordinance that severely infringed on rights protected by the Second Amendment. Maryland has a significant set of preemption statutes that prevent local governments from interfering with state firearms law.Maryland Shall Issue filed two lawsuits challenging the ordinance in different ways: one in federal court and the...

Dashcam video obtained by News4 shows the National Mall shooting Monday involving Secret Service officers. The Secret Service said a Texas man fired toward officers, who returned fire and hit him multiple times. A teen bystander was hit by the suspect’s gunfire and suffered a graze wound, authorities said. Gunshots can be heard in the video as drivers sit in traffic near Independence Avenue and 15th Street SW, just southeast of the Washington Monument. A man can be seen falling to the ground. “Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!” someone shouts. Police identified the man shot and wounded by the Secret Service as...

The Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer believes the Trump administration's lawsuit this week against the city of Denver's gun ban will one day soon lead to a Supreme Court decision legalizing the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle – revered by gun owners and reviled by liberals – in every jurisdiction in America. "We intend to make sure they do that," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview set to be aired Wednesday night on the Just the News, No Noise television show. Dhillon spoke just hours after her office filed a lawsuit against the city of Denver over its...

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the city of Denver, Colorado, "alleging that the City unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected semi-automatic rifles." "These laws unconstitutionally infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes," according to the Justice Department. "The Constitution is not a suggestion and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. "Denver's ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously...

JUST IN: Judge Zia Faruqui has *apologized* to Cole Allen, the man who is accused of trying to kill President Trump, for how he has been treated in jail. Fox News' Larry Kudlow was heard ripping the judge on Fox. "The judge apologized to this guy? ... [He would've] shot at the President and we're apologizing to this guy?" These judges are absolutely insane and belong in prison.

GARLAND, Texas - Garland police say a driver shot a man who was trying to carjack him in a parking lot. The incident was captured on surveillance. Police say the man tried to steal several vehicles by force yesterday afternoon, before trying this one near Highway 66 and Dairy Road. What we know: A majority of the family members were inside the car when a carjacker tried to steal it. The carjacker was shot and killed by the father during a struggle captured on video. Surveillance video shows a man attacking and trying to carjack a family of eight in...

The Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have announced plans to repeal or revise more than 30 federal gun regulations, completing a 50-year pendulum swing back to the Second Amendment's original, resulting in praise from one of the country's longest-standing gun-rights advocates. “This is why America elected Donald Trump. Freedom. ATF has no business making up rules, that’s what Congress does. Blanch, Dhillon, and Cekada are setting the right course," NRA Board Member and retired Army Lt. Col. Willes K. Lee told Just The News after the DOJ and ATF made the announcement last week....

Iranians need access to weapons to challenge their rulers, President Donald Trump said on Monday, arguing that protesters would fight effectively if armed but are currently outmatched by government forces. “They have to have guns. And I think they’re getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight like, as good as anybody there is,” Trump said in an interview with The Hugh Hewitt Show. Trump also suggested that US military pressure had already significantly weakened Iran and that further action could be completed within a short timeframe. Trump: The Iranian people have to have guns and I...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — An affidavits reveals new details in what led to police arresting a man who was seen carrying an AR-15 style gun inside of a restaurant on Chattanooga's Southside Sunday.Officers were dispatched around 4:17 p.m. after the affidavit says a concerned caller reported a suspicious man who may have been concealing a firearm.When police arrived at Bollywood Tacos, they found the man—later identified as 20-year-old Roman McDonald—sitting in a booth inside the restaurant.According to the arrest report, officers attempted to detain McDonald and discovered a Colt SP1 AR-15 rifle hidden in his pants.The weapon was loaded, with a...

Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui slammed attorneys during a Monday afternoon court hearing over the conditions of Allen's imprisonment. Allen was placed on suicide watch when he was first jailed. 'At a minimum I should be apologizing to him. We are obligated to make sure he’s taken care of. Mr. Allen, I’m sorry that things have not been the way they are supposed to,' the judge said. Faruqui went on to compare Allen's imprisonment to defendants arrest for rioting at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. 'To me, it’s extremely disturbing that he was put in five-point restraints, a person with...

https://x.com/hntrbrkmedia/status/2051271019978006686Hunterbrook@hntrbrkmedia·8hNEW: Europe’s biggest military IPO is combusting.Our months-long dive into the Czechoslovak Group — and the question of just how much ammunition it really produces.May 4, 2026ransomnote: a few seconds of the linked video TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~If anything happens to me it's probably going to be because of the military contractor we just exposed at Hunterbrook.They're known for producing 155 millimeter artillary.They're based in the Czech Republic.They have ties to Russia.And now they are arming Ukraine, though they are gauging the Ukrainian military. And they just went public a few months ago. The company was valued at $30 billion.But the thing...

A federal magistrate judge raised concerns on Monday that the man accused of trying to kill President Trump and top cabinet members at an annual press gala had been placed in unusually punitive detention for days while awaiting next steps in court. During a hastily scheduled hearing in Washington, Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui demanded answers about how the man had been placed on suicide watch, denied a number of basic services and held in what the judge called “effectively solitary confinement” for nearly a week, all while the government has been slow to establish key facts in the federal...

DOW Rapid Response@DOWResponse·8h.@SECWAR pinned the Soldier’s Medal on Maj. Ryan Reynolds for his heroic actions on November 26, 2025.5/4/2026

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A staffer for Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who was arrested last year for bringing a pistol into the Capitol without a license, saw the charges quickly dropped and walked away from the incident without further consequence, despite lingering questions. This is quite a surprise, especially given how radical the Democratic Party is about gun regulations, the Second Amendment, and gun-free zones. In an article published last week, Politico reported the Justice Department recently discovered that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia chose not to prosecute Kevin Batts in April 2025, about two weeks after...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A man is injured after a shooting involving a U.S. Secret Service agent in Southwest DC, not far from the Washington Monument, according to the U.S. Secret Service and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). According to the Secret Service, plainclothes agents spotted a man near the White House carrying a firearm. Agents then went to make contact with the man, but he took off running. During the chase, investigators said the man opened fire on the Secret Service officers who then returned fire. The man was taken to the hospital, but officials did not provide details on his...

PHOENIX — A bobcat that allegedly attacked multiple people in Prescott was killed by a German Shepherd, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office said the bobcat was believed to be involved in at least four attacks this weekend. The first reported attack happened Sunday around 6 p.m. near Inscription Canyon. The sheriff's office said the man attacked was taken to the hospital with significant injuries.