Police Use of Even Less Lethal Weapons is Too Much for Some Community Activists
While police consider tactical communication as one way to de-escalate a situation, they also view use of force and less-lethal weapons, such as Tasers, pepper spray and bean-bag rounds, as options. They tend to...
A Finnish Police Chief is Found Responsible for Issuing a Gun Permit a Man...
Five days before Matti Juhani Saari murdered 11 people at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in 2008, authorities attempted to confiscate his handgun, but he wasn't home.
Finland violated the rights of the victims of...
City of Louisville to Pay Breonna Taylor’s Family $12 Million After No-Knock Raid Shooting...
On March 13, three plainclothes officers of the Louisville Police Department, driving and unmarked car, burst into an apartment where Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were sleeping. They were executing a no-knock...
Judge Releases Bodycam Video Showing the Shooting of Two Tulsa Police Officers
Early on the morning of June 29, two Tulsa police officers stopped David Ware as he was driving his vehicle. Ware refused to get out of his car and was eventually pepper sprayed. But...
Brutal: LA County Sheriff Calls Out LeBron James, Wants Him to Match Reward for...
We've been critical of LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva in the past as he's no friend of gun owners or civilian gun rights. But credit where it's due for a well-played move. LeBron James...
Riots, Looting in Lancaster, PA After Cop Shoots and Kills Perp Who Chased Him...
We've arrived at a point in this country where any use of a firearm by a police officer against a suspect -- no matter how violent or dangerous the perp may have been --...
Two LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Ambushed In Their Patrol Car [VIDEO]
This is the natural result of months of portraying all law enforcement officers as violent, racist thugs. It's been a constant refrain from protesters, politicians, gun control advocates, and those in the media. Now,...
DC Metro Police Release BodyCam Video From Yesterday’s Shooting of Deon Kay
By Ashraf Khalil, AP
Police in the nation's capital on Thursday released body camera footage from the officer who fatally shot a Black teenager a day earlier, leading to protests outside Mayor Muriel Bowser's home...
Virginia Legislature Working to Make Assaulting Cops More Acceptable
By Larry Keane
A new Virginia proposal is closer to receiving the governor’s signature and announcing loudly and clearly: assaulting a law enforcement officer is now more acceptable to legislators in the Commonwealth. The bill, which...
Syracuse Asks Citizens to Inform on People Making ‘Ghost Guns’
The city of Syracuse, New York had seen an overall nine percent decrease in crime in the last year. Now, though, they're asking their citizens to adopt Stasi tactics in their fight against a...
Vox: Police Support Armed Citizens As Long As They’re Not Black or Brown
A recent paper by University of Arizona sociologist Jennifer Carlson offers some insight into the police’s behavior. She conducted dozens of hours of interviews about guns with 79 police chiefs in three states — Michigan,...
SAF’s Alan Gottlieb Added to ‘Gun Owners for Trump’ Advisory Board
From the CCRKBA:
Nationally-recognized gun rights leader Alan Gottlieb is among several Second Amendment advocates named to the Trump campaign’s “Gun Owners for Trump” advisory panel, the Bellevue, Washington-based activist confirmed.
Gottlieb is chairman of the...