NFA Follies: A Texas Sheriff’s Office Auctions Off At Least One Unregistered NFA Item
Demonstrating yet again that NFA restrictions are arbitrary, capricious, and absurd, here in Texas the Bastrop County Sheriff's Office is auctioning off some seized firearms. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that hidden in...
Georgia Man Charged with Double Murder in Killing of Two Deputies Serving an Arrest...
From the AP . . .
Authorities charged a man with murder Friday in the killing of two sheriff's deputies serving an arrest warrant on another person outside a suburban home near Atlanta.
Cobb County Police...
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: FBI Agent Shoots Himself in a...
Ah yes. Another gun that somehow "went off." As the local yokels who toil in Philly's media milieu put it, FBI agent shot in leg when weapon accidentally discharges at Philadelphia courthouse. We'd title...
Illinois State Police Making House Calls, Seizing Guns To Bring Revoked FOID Holders Into...
Though most people don't know it, the Illinois State Police (ISP) now make house calls. However, they aren't coming to welcome new neighbors or bring good cheer. Instead, they're coming to confiscate the firearms...
90 Cops Patrolling Schools Don’t Give Uvalde Parents Much Comfort As Schools Open September...
By Acacia Coronado and Paul J. Weber, AP
Even though Uvalde's school police chief is now gone, Mario Jimenez doesn't feel any safer about sending his 10-year-old son back to class for the first time...
St. Louis Police Fighting ‘Progressive’ Mayor’s New Civilian Oversight Board
By Jim Salter, AP
Eight years after Michael Brown’s death pushed the St. Louis region front and center into the national debate over police accountability, the city’s elected officials and its police associations are at odds over...
Kalven: Robust Transparency is the Antidote to Police Departments’ Attempts to Create Self-Serving Narratives...
https://youtu.be/y-KmlSnExnQ
As was widely expected, found “Halley’s use of deadly force was consistent with Chicago Police Department policy.” Although Augustus’s movements were ambiguous and could plausibly be interpreted in different ways (Was he perhaps...
Gun Owners After FBI Raid on Trump’s Florida Home: Welcome to the DOJ Party,...
By Lee Williams
The FBI raid on President Donald Trump’s Florida home came as little surprise to the gun rights community. After all, the Department of Justice was weaponized against us the second the current...
Florida Ex-Cop Who Killed a Woman During an Exercise Wants His Probation Deal Ended...
By Lee Williams
Former Punta Gorda, Florida Police Officer Lee Coel aimed his Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver at 73-year-old retired librarian Mary Knowlton and pulled the trigger four times.
What were supposed to be blanks,...
Uvalde Residents Want Consequences For Those Whose Failures Cost So Many Lives
By Jake Bleiberg and Acacia Coronado, AP
After the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May, Jesse Rizo was worried about his old friend, police chief Pete Arredondo.
Blame for the botched police response was...
BREAKING: LAPD Stops Enforcement of California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban
By Lee Williams
The Los Angeles Police Department has stopped enforcing California’s state law banning “high capacity” magazines, according to an internal LAPD email obtained by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project.
The email was...
Uvalde School Shooting Response Failures Will ‘Set Back Law Enforcement 20 Years’
By Lindsay Whitehurst, AP
A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — more than the entire police force in a midsize American city like Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Tempe, Arizona. But...