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The Republican National Committee’s director of security said that the explanation of the purported January 6 pipe bomb plot, and the response by authorities, “make no sense whatsoever.” Kenneth Capolino, a former Capitol Police officer who went on to work as the RNC’s director of security, was the man who personally alerted Capitol Police to the bomb near the RNC and managed the emergency response. Capolino told The Daily Wire, in his first public remarks on the incident, that it looked like a stereotypical IED, or improvised explosive device, that is used by law enforcement in training sessions. “Any of...

A disturbance between two stepbrothers escalated and turned into one of them shooting the other with a crossbow in east Harris County, authorities said. Wednesday night's scene is developing in the Crosby area at the 20700 block of Live Oak. According to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the two adult stepbrothers were involved in some kind of disturbance when one shot the other with a crossbow. The wounded man was taken to the hospital via Life Flight and is said to be critical. The brother accused of firing the crossbow was detained. An investigation is underway.

It’s tough to tell which fact is more surprising: That a red stag deer, not native to North America, was roaming around Randolph County, Alabama. Or that, after countless veteran hunters sought this elusive animal for months, a teenager who never harvested a deer in nearly 50 previous hunts, is the guy who killed it. Or that this specimen — estimated at more than 300 pounds — was so big, part of it dangled from his GMC Z71 pickup truck on the way to the processor, where it was too heavy for one scale and maxed out another. Or that...

On the evening of 22 September 2005, a hunting guide and his hunter, who was from Ohio, were attacked without provocation, by a grizzly bear in the Shoshone National Forest in the northwest corner of Wyoming. The details of the attack were found in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response to AmmoLand. This correspondent has not found any other published account of this attack. The hunter had been drawn for an archery tag for elk, with his friends. The hunter had been assigned a guide by the licensed outfitter. On the morning of 22 September, the guide had decided...

A 58-year-old man was struck and killed by an arrow intended for a skunk Friday night, police in central New York said. James Parker Jr., 58, and another man were trying to kill a skunk with a crossbow, but when the other man shot the arrow it “unintentionally” struck Parker instead, according to a news release from New York State Police.

Archery: Will it EVER be the same again? Wow. Cool automatic crossbow/bow auto reloading device. For any freepers who live in countries where gun are banned or hard to get, ( Like California ) something like this could be a game changer in self defense. This device is amazing in it's simplicity and is literally a "genie out of the bottle" in terms of easy to make with 3-D printing or even basic wood working/metalworking skills, can be made by either modifying existing bows or making your own. The ability to make a "magazine" for quick re-loading is a neat...

German police said Monday two more bodies have been found during investigations into the deaths of three people discovered in a Bavarian hotel room and killed by crossbow bolts. The bodies were found in Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, in the apartment of one of the women discovered in Passau, Bavaria. The apartment was searched in order to shed light on the Passau discoveries. Detectives were hoping for clues to the mysterious deaths of one man and two women, all apparently dead from being shot by crossbows. Gifhorn police told DPA they were investigating the identities of the two newly discovered...

Video shows a hitman trying to kill a woman with a high-powered crossbow hidden inside a box. The shocking surveillance video was released by Canadian police. It shows a man dressed as a delivery driver and holding a large package. But detectives say he was really a hitman and was ringing the home's doorbell to deliver a fatal attack. Moments after, a woman answered the door, the two exchanged words and the man fired the crossbow. Police say inside the cardboard box was a high-powered crossbow holding a razor-sharp big game arrow, designed to bring down and kill elk and...

London's Metropolitan Police confirmed that 50-year-old Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo has been charged with the murder of Sana Muhammad, 35, following the violent attack in Ilford on Monday morning. CNN has learned that Unmathallegadoo is the ex-husband of the victim. Sana Muhammad -- previously named by police as Devi Unmathallegadoo -- was eight months pregnant with her baby, who was narrowly missed by the crossbow and was delivered safely in hospital. The victim's husband, Imtiaz Muhammad, told the Evening Standard newspaper that the alleged killer had been hiding in the family's garden shed, before attacking her in front of her five other...

WEARE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (Oceana County Press) – A 60-year-old Hart man is in custody following a bizarre incident Saturday, Nov. 3, in which the suspect allegedly flipped his ex-wife’s car over with a tractor and then barricaded himself in a house, aiming a crossbow at deputies, according to Oceana County Sheriff Craig Mast. The hours-long ordeal began in the morning and ended late that afternoon. “At approximately 11:45 a.m., deputies were dispatched to a residence on West Monroe Road for a felonious domestic assault,” Mast states in a press release. “Upon arrival there, the deputies found that the ex-husband of...

It's Joerg. Useful zombie and vampire killing info. For those interested. I mean...you should be interested. Just in case. Never know. Plus, I think I'm going to kill that squirrel with one of these.

A 49-Year-old grandmother has defended her house and herself with a crossbow in England. it was about 9 p.m. on 17 April in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. Three masked men, armed with a machete and a hammer, burst into Anji Rhys home. The man with the machete tried to grab the crossbow after she snatched it off the wall. She was able to turn and fire it into his abdomen. Link to video of interview It is not easy to obtain firearms in England. Any firearms obtained are supposed to be locked up. Self defense is not considered a legitimate reason...

As with many leftist writers in Europe and the United States, the author appears to glory in their ignorance of weapons and weapon technology. The short spear improvised from a kitchen knife, above, is not a “makeshift bayonet”. A bayonet is a blade that is to be attached to a firearm for use in hand to hand fighting. There is no firearm associated with the blade in the picture above.  From walesonline.com: Police raided a home and found two loaded crossbows and a makeshift bayonet.Officers entered a house in Sandfields , Port Talbot on Saturday afternoon, following a complaint...

Stan Ethredge had monitored the deer for years. He owns hundreds of acres and watched from his deer cameras as the deer’s antlers grew six points about four years ago. They were normal size and shape then. This season, when it came back, its antlers had changed. They were a mass of twisted tines and knobby bases. Ethredge decided to hunt it. "As soon as I got the crosshairs on him, I shot," Ethredge told the Clarion-Ledger. "He's eluded me for years, so I didn't want to let him get away. I shot him as soon as I got the...

Accident occurred as man was trying to disarm crossbow after a day of deer huntingA man accidentally shot himself in the chest with a crossbow while he was hunting with a group of people in the Marlborough Forest on Sunday night, according to Ottawa paramedics. It happened at about 6 p.m. Sunday in the woods near Dwyer Hill Road and Roger Stevens Drive, north of Merrickville, Ont., and south of Richmond, Ont. The 45-year-old man was trying to disarm the crossbow after a day of deer hunting when he accidentally shot himself, paramedics said. His friends helped him to the...

The victims of last week's so-called crossbow killings in the Toronto district of Scarborough were the mother and two brothers of the man charged with three counts of first-degree murder. A court-ordered publication ban put in place after Brett Anthony Ryan, 35, was charged in the triple homicide Friday prevented CBC News from publishing the names of the victims until now.

Regulating crossbows would be expensive and hard to implement, crossbow retailer say Those convicted of violent crimes are often ordered by the court not to own guns or crossbows, but because there's no regulation of crossbows, retailers don't know who they shouldn't be selling to. That's why Solomon Friedman, an Ottawa-based firearms law expert, says vendors should be given access to a federal database that identifies those who have a firearms ban. Although last week's slayings have prompted public discussion about licensing crossbows, Friedman says that the focus should be on those who are already banned from using weapons. "Instead...

Three people have died after an attack involving a crossbow in Toronto’s east end. The incident happened near Markham Road and Eglinton Avenue East in Scarborough Thursday afternoon. Toronto paramedics said two males and one female were pronounced dead at the scene. One male was transported to hospital with minor injuries. Police say the man who placed the call to 911 is one of the deceased. A man has been taken into custody, police said, and there doesn’t appear to be any suspects outstanding. Police say a crossbow was found nearby, and there were other items found in the area...

Paramedics are treating three victims after an apparent crossbow attack near the Mason Road and Eglinton Avenue area of Scarborough Thursday afternoon.

That's right you heard it, one arrow taking down two hogs. Has anyone done this?, did you video capture it?, anyways here's a video showing Keith Warren displaying such skill, see the video here.