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A Canadian man leaped to the defense of his wife after a polar bear lunged toward her in a dramatic ambush by the animal in rural Ontario.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government has outlawed another 324 firearm varieties — guns it says belong on the battlefield, not in the hands of hunters or sport shooters. The move follows the May 2020 ban of 1,500 makes and models of firearms, a number that grew to more than 2,000 by November of this year as new variants were identified. The latest prohibition of hundreds more, announced today at a news conference, follows expressions of concern from gun-control advocates that many assault-style firearms were not covered by the 2020 ban. The federal government says it is working with provinces, territories...

House Democrats pressured U.S. Capitol Police to provide special financial assistance and even a promotion to the officer who fatally shot unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riot, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer and charitable assistance not provided to other officers, according to internal emails reviewed by Just the News. "He is very upset about how he is being treated. He wants us to figure this out and now," a top congressional aide to then-House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, wrote to Capitol Police in November 2021 pressing for more assistance to Lt....

Detectives investigating the murder of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson reportedly found shell casings with the words 'deny', 'defend' and 'depose' inscribed on them. Police sources told ABC News that casings were found at the scene with the cryptic messages left on them. Detectives are now working to determine what the words mean and if they could possibly hint at a motive for the slaying of the 50-year-old. Officers are still searching for the unknown assailant who gunned down Thompson outside of the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday morning. Authorities say he fled the scene on foot before then making...

The man wanted for fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Wednesday morning was spotted inside a nearby Starbucks before killing his target, police said. The NYPD released a new photo of the hooded suspect standing in front of the counter at the Starbucks at W. 56th Street and 6th Avenue, just minutes away from the Hilton hotel where he gunned down Thompson, 50. It was not immediately clear how long the gunman, who has yet to be identified, was at the Starbucks or if he purchased anything. Officials said that after firing at Thompson multiple times, with bullets...

Shocking surveillance footage obtained by DailyMail.com reveals the moment UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside Manhattan's Hilton Hotel. Thompson, 50, was seen leaving the hotel at 6:45am on Wednesday, when a masked assailant draws out a gun with a silencer and shoots him in the back. After Thompson, the head of America's largest health insurance company, stumbled away from the attacker, the gunman follows him and continues firing into the CEO as he hit the ground. The gunman fled the scene and escaped into Central Park on a bike, with the NYPD releasing chilling images of the assassin...

Eight people were shot and three killed Monday afternoon in a Gage Park, Chicago shooting during an apparent house party, and police are still looking for a suspect. Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Jon Hein said police responded to a call in the 3500 block of West 59th Street in Gage Park. Chief Jon Hein told reporters during a press conference Monday, “A total of eight individuals from this incident had been shot, four males, four females, Hispanic background, ages 20 to 35, three of the male subjects succumbed from their injuries involved in today.” Via CBS: https://rumble.com/v5vpbp8-chicago-police-chief-of-patrol-jon-hein-gives-update-on-gage-park-shooting.html While this...

Chicago police chief Jon Hein indicated officers are trying to identify “individuals” behind a shooting that killed three people and wounded five in a Chicago Lawn home Monday afternoon, according to CBS News. Hein said, “We have eight victims…We’re going to solve this crime and find the individuals that are responsible for the heinous, terrible incident.” WGN-TV noted that police were called to the scene at 2 p.m. Monday. Investigators indicated to WGN-TV there appeared to a “social gathering” at the home before the shooting began. Neighbors near the home indicated “there was a party going on before shots were...

A Secret Service agent fired at suspects who were attempting to open car doors near Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s home in Washington, D.C., early Tuesday morning, a spokesman said in a statement. An agent working a protective assignment in the 2900 block of Stephenson Place NW saw a sedan with multiple people who were attempting to open car doors along the street at about 1:30 a.m., Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said. That address is near where Yellen lives in the District, though Guglielmi said no Secret Service protectees were threatened during the incident. “As the sedan approached the agent,...

"Wen obtained firearms, ammunition, and export-controlled technology with the intention of shipping them to North Korea — a violation of federal law and United States sanctions against that nation," the agency says An illegal immigrant from China was arrested for allegedly shipping "firearms, ammunition and other military items" to North Korea from California, according to a Justice Department indictment released on Tuesday. Shenghua Wen, 41, of Ontario, California, was arrested on Tuesday after hiding the weapons "inside shipping containers bound from Long Beach," the agency said. Wen, who was a Chinese national illegally residing in the United States, was expected...

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported the precise number of NICS checks at 169,906 for the day. There were over 613,000 NICS checks conducted during Black Friday week, which began on Saturday, November 23, and ended at the close of business on November 29. There have been 64 consecutive months of over one million NICS checks a month for gun sales at retail. On November 4, 2024, Breitbart News reported October was the 63rd consecutive month for over million such checks, and during a phone call, NSSF’s Mark Oliva confirmed November 2024 proved to be the 64th consecutive month....

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police continue to investigate after eight people were shot, three fatally, at a house party in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Monday afternoon. What neighbors describe as a large house party in the 3500-block of West 59th Street ended in deadly gunfire. Chicago police responding to the home just after 2 p.m. Monday. [snip] While investigators have not yet determined a motive or if a suspect was injured in the shooting, neighbors said this violence is just the latest crime to plague this Southwest Side community. "You hear music and people coming in and out, like, smoking...

Trump jokingly told Trudeau that if Canada can't afford the tariffs, he could annex the country and make Trudeau the governor of the 51st state.

Kostas Moros@MorosKostasAmericans with CCW Permits Almost Never Commit Crime. When the landmark Bruen ruling was first published in June of 2022, politicians in the few remaining holdout states that did not issue concealed carry permits ("CCW permits") to regular citizens had a meltdown. New York Governor Kathy Hochul called it "outrageous", California Governor Gavin Newsom saidit was a "radical decision", and New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin described it as "bad constitutional law and even worse for public safety." Gun control groups were also apoplectic. Giffords claimed the ruling would would "escalate gun violence", "spur unlawful militia activity", "embolden those...

A staffer for Democratic Representative Joe Morelle (D-NY) was arrested on Friday on Capitol Hill after Capitol Police discovered ammunition in his bag during routine security screening at the Cannon House Office Building. Michael Hopkins, 38, was charged with unlawful possession of ammunition following the incident. According to Capitol Police, Hopkins placed his bag through an X-ray scanner at the security checkpoint, where officers identified suspicious items on the screen. Upon further inspection, they found four ammunition magazines and eleven rounds of ammunition inside his bag, according to WROC. Hopkins reportedly told officers he had forgotten the ammunition was there,...

Ever since Hunter Biden was convicted on federal charges of possessing a firearm while an unlawful user of drugs (and lying about that fact on the background check forms he filled out when purchasing a revolver), Joe Biden has insisted that he wouldn't be pardoning his son. That all changed late on Sunday when Biden announced he'd issued a full pardon, just a few weeks before Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced for his felony crimes. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he...

Jerrell Thomas, described by police investigators as a “habitual criminal,” is under arrest and charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of Oak Park police detective Allan Reddins. Breitbart News reported Reddins responded to a call Friday morning about a man leaving a bank with a gun and, upon arriving on scene, was shot around 9:30 a.m. Reddins died shortly thereafter and was the first Oak Park Police Department officer killed in the line of duty since 1938.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Winnebago County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to an incident involving an elderly man shooting the suspect in the buttocks after he started attacking a female victim. On November 25, around 10 a.m., deputies were called to the 8900 block of Bluegrass Drive for a domestic disturbance. The man told police that Nathaniel Brooks, 32, was pushing, punching and slapping the female victim. The man called 911 and retrieved his handgun, according to court documents. Brooks continued to attack the woman and the man shot him in the buttocks with no intention of killing him, officials reported. The...

A police officer was shot and fatally wounded in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park Friday morning around 9:30 a.m. CBS News identified the officer as 40-year-old Oak Park Police Detective Allan Reddins, and he was declared deceased at 10:10 a.m. ABC 7 noted that Reddins responded to call about a person with a gun leaving a bank. Shots were fired upon Reddins’ arrival on scene.

U.S. Army post Fort Moore, formerly Fort Benning, is offering a $15,000 reward for information regarding more than 30 missing M17 pistols assumed stolen. The M17 became the Army’s official sidearm in 2017. Ammoland reported “Enhanced Night Vision Goggles (ENVGs) and an AN/PAS 13D Thermal Optic” are also missing.