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On December 4th, 2024, at 6:45 ET, an assassin killed United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson in New York City in front of the Hilton Hotel. Video of the assassination shows the assassin with what appears to be a pistol with a suppressor attached. The assassin fires at least two shots, possibly three, while manually working the action at least twice. This would leave two shell cases and a potentially loaded round or three shell cases at the crime scene.On December 9th, 2024, a suspect was identified in a McDonald’s at about 0914 a.m. in Altoona, PA. Altoona police officers approached...

In an article by whyy.org, the National Public Radio station quotes retired police officer Randy Sutton, who says banning “Ghost guns” will not stop people from getting them. The reporter added interesting commentary to the quotes by Sutton. Sutton added that because ghost guns are not regulated, making them go away outright is unrealistic.Sutton’s words might be interpreted in such a manner. It seems clear Sutton meant the guns would not “go away outright” whether they were banned or not, whether they were regulated or not. Here is a quote from Sutton in the article.“There’s not a chance in the...

On December 12, 2024, USA Today published a hit piece on “ghost guns” attempting to use the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as a reason to impose unconstitutional restrictions on homemade firearms. It appears Brian Thompson was assassinated with a homemade firearm. However, the manufacture of the firearm did not interfere with the investigation of his murder. The suspect was arrested without any assistance from gun tracing data, as is the case with virtually all violent crimes. Gun tracing has no measurable effect on solving violent crimes. It is difficult to find any violent crime that was solved with...

The suspect in the death of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been named as Luigi Mangione. Mangione, 26, is being held after the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan after his arrest Monday morning. He was detained at McDonald’s in Pennsylvania around 9am ET on firearm charges and is said to have been found with a 'ghost gun' that may have been made using a 3D printer. Mangione is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student who attended a $40,000-a-year Baltimore private school. The musclebound suspect has ties to San Francisco,...

Police found a manifest on the person of interest nabbed at a McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. Ex-Ivy League student Luigi Mangione, 26, was taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania after customers in a McDonald’s recognized him and tipped off local law enforcement. Law enforcement found at least four fake IDs on Mangione, a gun with a silencer and a manifesto. According to The New York Post, Luigi Mangione’s manifesto ranted against the healthcare industry. “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore Police confirm a 17-year-old is in grave condition after pulling a gun on a driver near southeast Baltimore's Brewers Hill community. The Southeastern District Police Community Relations Council told FOX45 News the teen was attempting to carjack the driver. The Baltimore Police Department's Media Relations is not confirming that narrative but says the driver and juvenile exchanged gunfire. According to BPD, on October 8 around 2:15 a.m., an officer was flagged down by a citizen while in the 3100 block of Boston Street, advising he was shot. Medics responded and took the 31-year-old man to a...

On August 8, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, granted an emergency to the Biden administration in the case of VanDerStok v. Garland.The case centers around whether the ATF of the Biden administration correctly followed administrative procedure while creating the “Final Rule on a change in the definition of what constitutes a firearm, firearm receiver, or firearm frame, as defined by the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA 1968. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had refused to grant the stay, on the grounds the Biden Administration was likely to...

On July 27, 2023, the Attorney General of the Biden Administration, Merrick B. Garland, applied for a stay to Justice Alito at the Supreme Court in the case of VanDerStok v. Garland. The request for an emergency stay had been refused by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on July 24, 2023, as reported on AmmoLand. One of the possibilities mentioned was the Biden administration would appeal directly to the Supreme Court. The possibility of a request for an en banc decision existed but was unlikely because the Fifth Circuit has been...

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Michigan law requires police and sheriff departments to turn confiscated firearms over to the state police. The state publishes a list of firearms each month that have not been claimed.From the michigan.gov website:The information below identifies firearm(s) confiscated by a Michigan law enforcement agency and turned over to the Michigan State Police (MSP) pursuant to MCL 28.434 and MCL 750.239.List of Weapons to be Destroyed:List of weapons to be destroyed October 2022 (public notice date 9-1-2022)(embeded below). If you are claiming ownership of any firearm(s) listed, please write or call within thirty (30) days of the date of...

The Nevada legislature passed and Governor Sisolak signed into law AB 286 on June 7, 2021. On June 22, Polymer80 filed a lawsuit challenging AB 286 as unconstitutionally vague, under the due process clause of the Nevada Constitution. Both Polymer80 and the State of Nevada filed Motions for Summary Judgement, and opposition to the opponent’s Motion for Summary Judgement, in a timely manner.Summary judgment is granted when the law and the facts of the case are so clear cut no trial is needed for a court to rule on the matter.AB 286 attempted to ban the possession, sale, or transport...

Politico indicates that President Joe Biden will be putting forth executive action on gun control tomorrow. Politico notes that the executive action is expected to center on “ghost guns,” making it mandatory for individuals buying gun kits to undergo a background check as purchasers of manufactured firearms are required to do.

The 16-year-old who shot five classmates...used an unregistered, untraceable "ghost gun" assembled by hand from various parts, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva..."Congress and state legislatures enact all these crimes about gun registration but now the gun industry is creating a way to just bypass the entire thing by creating a mechanism to manufacture weapons yourself," Villanueva said...Thomas Gronenan, detective sergeant with the Suffolk County Police Department in New York, said. “It’s scary..."

One of the automatic weapons used by so called, "counter snipers" at the Waco Twin Peaks biker shooting incident is apparently a 'ghost gun'. The serial number used to identify the weapon in the forensic ballistic reports does NOT exist per Colt Firearms serial number search. Both of the two Remington sniper rifles were in the serial number data base of Remington Bushmaster firearms.

The "ghost gun" used in the murder/suicide in California was built with off the shelf parts, an 80% receiver, and a fair amount of machining. The police officer in the video says that crimes committed with guns made this way are rare.  This is the first murder that he has heard of where one was used.  From kron4.com: WALNUT CREEK (KRON/BCN) — A 21-year-old Lafayette native built the firearms he used to kill a 19-year-old college woman before he turned the gun on himself at a home in Walnut Creek last month, police said Tuesday. Investigators say Scott Bertics...

Kevin De Leon, (California Democrat) of course… makes an absolute fool of himself when attempting to talk about firearms, which he clearly knows nothing about. Unfortunately for him, it was video taped and will now be ‘out there’ forever. Mr. De Leon, is just one more example of the foolishness in the democratic party regarding firearms and the 2nd Amendment. If he wants to be anti-gun… thats his business…. but.. if he thinks his ignorance about firearms should prevent the rest of us from exercising our 2nd Amendment rights, that is MY BUSINESS. Mr. De Leon, the next time you...