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  • Officials investigating fire outside of gun shop in Mesa

    05/30/2022 8:25:38 PM PDT · by Az Joe · 10 replies
    ABC 15 Phoenix ^ | 05/30/2022
    MESA, AZ — Officials are investigating a fire outside of a Mesa gun shop Monday morning. Fire officials tell ABC15 they were dispatched to the area of Southern Avenue and Mesa Drive for a fire in a storage container outside of a business complex. The container had ammunition, flammables, and other hazardous materials that were exploding during the fire. For that reason, fire crews backed off and fought the blaze defensively for their own safety. in Mesa Fire officials tell ABC15 they were dispatched to the area of Southern Avenue and Mesa Drive for a fire in a storage container...
  • Philadelphia gun shop owner 'justified' in shooting burglars, killing one, DA says

    06/05/2020 10:24:47 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 5 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 05 2020 | Nick Givas
    Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Friday announced charges against one of several suspects, accused of attempting to rob a local gun shop, while also deeming the owner's response to the incident "justified." "The facts we know and the law are clear that the business owner’s use of force while inside his own property against a burglar accompanied by others who was entering with a gun in his hand was justified," Krasner said in a press release. "It is fortunate for the City of Philadelphia that this large cache of guns and ammunitions were not taken and sold on the...
  • Sheriff Offers Victim a Gun, Gun Shop Gives a .38

    02/15/2017 3:59:10 AM PST · by marktwain · 28 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 12 February, 2017 | Dean Weingarten
    On Friday, 3 February, 2017, 66-year-old Billy Harrell was being robbed in the parking lot of the restaurant he manages, the Ole Times Country Buffet.  He was closing for the night. It was about 9:30 p.m. in Dublin, Georgia.  Holding a gun to his head, the two robbers forced him into his SUV. They took a gun from the vehicle and other items. From idahostatesman.com: The robber grabbed a pistol and some other items from the vehicle and started to leave. When he turned back around with his gun pointed, Harrell fired a shot from another weapon he had...
  • Suspect killed trying to rob Georgia gun shop

    12/27/2016 8:44:38 AM PST · by PROCON · 76 replies
    guns.com ^ | Dec. 27, 2016 | Jennifer Cruz
    A Georgia gun store owner fought back against two armed suspects who attempted to rob his business Monday morning. One suspect was left dead and the second remains at large, local media reported, but authorities are hopeful surveillance video that captured the attempted robbery will help them to identify the second suspect. The owner of Dixie Gun and Pawn had just opened the shop with an employee when the two suspects entered wearing ski masks and armed with guns. Fearing for his safety, the shop owner pulled out his own gun and fired at the suspects, striking one and...
  • FL gun shop donates gun to good Samaritan who shot deputy’s attacker

    11/18/2016 12:34:46 PM PST · by PROCON · 34 replies
    guns.com ^ | Nov. 18, 2017 | Jennifer Cruz
    The good Samaritan who shot and killed another man who was brutally beating a Lee County sheriff’s deputy on an Estero, Florida, highway Monday morning now has a new gun thanks to a Fort Myers gun shop. Deputy Dean Bardes initiated a traffic stop after Edward Strother blew past him at a high rate of speed. But when Strother eventually stopped, he exited the vehicle and attacked Bardes, threw him violently to the ground and repeatedly punched him. When the good Samaritan came upon the scene, he stopped his vehicle and exited with his gun drawn. The man warned Strother...
  • Nova Armory files Lawsuit Against Officials for Bullying Tactics, Intimidation

    05/08/2016 3:43:51 AM PDT · by marktwain · 10 replies
    Ammoland ^ | 1 May, 2016 | Dean Weingarten
    The popular gunshop NOVA Armory opened in Arlington, VA on March 26th.  The store was filled with customers, in spite of opposition from a small group of anti-rights activists.  The bullying activists were joined with several members of the local government who attempted to force the gunshop to close.  One landlord had already broken a lease under pressure from the local disarmists.  NOVA had warned the politicians that they would sue if the harrassment continued.  From NOVA Armory: March 4, 2016, ARLINGTON, VA — The gun shop planning to open in Arlington, Virginia this month has responded to a...
  • South African police discover 21 pieces of female genitalia in Danish man's FREEZER

    09/22/2015 6:40:07 AM PDT · by null and void · 25 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 21 September 2015 | Corey Charlton
    A Danish man living in South Africa has been arrested after police claim to have found 21 pieces of female genitalia stashed inside his freezer. His arrest came after his wife, from Lesotho, told police he drugged her and cut off her genitalia while incapacitated. Named by Danish newspaper BT as 63-year-old Peter Frederiksen, it was revealed he had openly discussed practising female genital mutilation with a journalist in the past. Hangwani Mulaudzi, a South African police spokesman, told the paper: 'We have found 21 genitals from 21 women. 'The man's wife is one of the women. We are now...
  • Pelosi: closing of last gun shop in San Francisco was “a private sector decision”

    10/11/2015 6:06:58 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Hotair ^ | 10/11/2015 | Jazz Shaw
    You may recall that we recently talked about a sad day in the City by the Bay when it was announced that San Francisco’s last remaining gun shop would close its doors at the end of this month. After living through one wave of regulations after another they finally learned that they would be forced to videotape every transaction which took place in the store and proactively turn those videos over to the local police each week even if there wasn’t a hint of an allegation that the customers had done anything wrong. That was, as the store manager...
  • Dueling Petitions to Support, Close Gun Shop

    10/04/2015 10:20:55 AM PDT · by marktwain · 9 replies
    Ammoland ^ | 1 October, 2015 | Dean Weingarten
    In Virginia, one of the Bloomberg disarmist groups is attempting to shut down one of the few gun shops near the nations capitol. One of the more destructive and sadly, successful, disarmist memes has been the alienation of the gun culture from education and the schools. In my recollection, it started with the destruction of rifle, shotgun, and pistol teams in the Universities, with many ranges being closed and never reopened as ROTC was chased off of Campus during the Vietnam war and after. It spread to high schools and grammar schools, and reached a legislative high with the Federal...
  • The last gun shop in San Francisco shuts down in face of new regulations

    09/28/2015 7:50:39 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/28/2015 | Jazz Shaw
    Next month will mark the end of an era in San Francisco as the city’s sole remaining gun shop closes its doors. High Bridge Arms has been in business at the same location since the 1950s, but with the next round of city regulations and restrictions on gun dealers (which means just High Bridge) the city fathers have found the straw required to break the camel’s back. It’s a glorious day for liberals. (Fox News) Business for the last gun shop in the city of 840,000 has been good, according to Alcairo, especially since the store, which caters to...
  • Assailant in Garland, Texas, attack bought gun in 2010 under Fast and Furious operation

    08/01/2015 5:08:21 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    LA Times via The Chicago Tribune ^ | 08/01/2015 | Richard A. Serrano
    Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol.At the time, Lone Wolf Trading Co. was known among gun smugglers for selling illegal firearms. And with Soofi's history of misdemeanor drug and assault charges, there was a chance his purchase might raise red flags in the federal screening process.Inside the store, he fudged some facts on the form required of would-be gun buyers.What Soofi could not have known was that Lone Wolf was at the center of a federal...
  • AZ: Open Carry in Bullhead City Gun Shop, McDonald's

    05/26/2015 2:52:53 PM PDT · by marktwain · 26 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 25 May, 2015 | Dean Weingarten
    I was traveling up Arizona highway 95 from Yuma to Las Vegas to take care of some business.  I follow 95 through Bullhead City, to avoid crossing a little, but inconvenient, strip of California.   Just outside the southern city limits of Bullhead city, there is a gun shop, N.P. Gun Sales, on the east side of the highway.  I was looking for some 16 gauge buckshot loads, which are not that easy to come by.  It was a good excuse to check out the store.  The first thing that I noticed as I approached the door, was this sign....
  • AR: Armed Woman in Gunshop Saved by Book; Robber Shot (Video)

    12/10/2014 5:38:36 PM PST · by marktwain · 49 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 10 November, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    Link to video here In this dramatic video of an attempted armed robbery of a gunshop in Springdale, Arkansas, on December 6, 2014, one robber is wounded, and the gunshop owner is hit by a spent bullet that does not break the skin. The two suspects, Marcus Gould, and Leon Roberson, are from California and are in custody.  Gould has a long criminal record, and was wounded in the arm by a shot fired by Shirley Cornett, who owns the store with her husband.   A bullet fired back was slowed by coin books on the counter before it hit Shirley. ...
  • A Field Guide to Gun Shop, the Customers (video 11 min.)

    05/21/2014 12:16:03 PM PDT · by virgil283 · 22 replies
    youtube ^ | Colion Noir
    Amusing video on the types of some customers found in a gun shop : The talker, The safety hazzard, The antique, The zombie guy, The cheapsate, The know-it-all, The .45 guy, The felon, The hustler.....{some bad words} .....;
  • SC:Gun shop owner gives burglars surprise welcome

    03/13/2014 11:18:17 AM PDT · by marktwain · 5 replies
    wavy.com ^ | 11 March, 2014 | Jason Marks
    “It is kind of like the whole redneck saying, ‘you just can’t fix stupid,’” David Pritchard said.Pritchard says he saw stupid first hand early Sunday around 7 a.m. That’s when three men tried to break into his gun shop, Bull Shooter’s Supply on Bayside Road.“I have no idea how they intended to get inside,” Pritchard said.A neighbor who lives just down the street from the gun shop noticed the suspect’s car. He then saw three men dressed in all black get out and head toward the shop. The neighbor made two calls. One to Pritchard and the other to 911.The...
  • PA: Former Police Officer Ordered to Stand Trial for Murder of Gun Shop Owner

    02/24/2014 11:32:08 AM PST · by marktwain · 12 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 24 February, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    Entrance to Frank's Gun Shop by Ashley Hardway In this highly unusual case, the action was all caught on video.  The gun shop owner, Frank Petro, knew the former officer, Jack O. Edmundson.  Family members said that Edmundson had been extorting Petro by impersonating a state lottery officer.  The scam was that Edmundson claimed that Petro's winnings were fraudulent, and that he would jail Petro unless Petro paid him the winnings.   Petro, as a highly regulated gun shop owner was particularly vulnerable.  Even an accusation might have resulted in the BATFE pulling his license and livelihood.   When Petro's...
  • Teens in Muslim burkas try to rob Delco gun shop

    01/04/2014 5:27:40 PM PST · by marktwain · 19 replies
    philly.com ^ | 2 January, 2013 | William Bender
    Most teenagers do dumb things. But not trying-to-rob-Joe-Galiano dumb. Who is Joe Galiano? He's the owner of Suburban Armory, the gun shop on MacDade Boulevard in Collingdale Borough, Delaware County. He is surrounded by guns, including the one on his hip. Like his .45-caliber pistol. Can't miss it. Despite this fact, police say two teenagers dressed in burkas walked into his store this afternoon, pulled a gun on Galiano and tried to stick him up. Galiano, less than thrilled about having a man in female Muslim garb pointing a silver handgun at him inside his own store, decided not to...
  • OR:WCSO: Man brings knife, bat to gun store robbery

    07/26/2013 2:23:22 PM PDT · by marktwain · 19 replies
    koin.com ^ | 25 July, 2013 | Staff
    PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Discount Gun Sales shop at 8118 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway is closed Thursday night, following a reported robbery attempt. Around 4 p.m. a man carrying a 9-inch knife and a baseball bat entered the gun shop and smashed a display case, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. His apparent aim? An unloaded semi-automatic handgun.The shattered gun case at the Discount Gun Sales shot on SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway as of July 25, 2013. (Courtesy of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.) The store’s manager then grabbed his own gun. That gun, however, was loaded.“The store manager called...
  • Connecticut shop that sold a gun to Sandy Hook school shooter's mother Nancy Lanza loses its

    04/05/2013 4:06:00 PM PDT · by Nachum · 15 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4/5/13 | Daily Mail Reporter
    A Connecticut shop that sold a gun to the Newtown school shooter's mother has lost its federal firearms license. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked the license of Riverview Gun Sales in East Windsor, about 15 miles north of Hartford, on December 20, and the 60-day time frame to appeal has expired. The agency didn't disclose why it revoked the license. 'It's been revoked. It's final at this point,' is all ATF spokeswoman Deb Seifert would tell reporters. Lanza Adam Lanza may have used a gun purchased from the store on his killing spree It was first...
  • Self-defense found in fatal Indy gun shop shooting(IN)

    09/25/2012 9:12:34 AM PDT · by marktwain · 9 replies
    wdtn.com ^ | 24 September, 2012 | AP
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors in Indianapolis say a gun store employee who fatally shot a customer who had shot him first acted in self-defense under Indiana law and won't face charges.