By Larry Keane Seattle is the home of Amazon’s corporate headquarters, employing more than 80,000 people. It’s also one of the nation’s epicenters of crime, rioting, and looting that erupted in 2020 which remains concerns today. The online sales behemoth that embraces gun control and defunding police is now witnessing the effects of those policies. Amazon … Read more
Business must be booming these days for a chain of Washington State ice cream shops, because Molly Moon’s had no problem banning uniformed police officers from bringing guns inside their shops. The owner of the chain, Molly Moon Neitzel, claims that armed police officers in her stores make some of her employees feel unsafe. So … Read more
“If force has to be used then force has to be used so long as it’s necessary and reasonable,” [use of force expert Jesus] Villahermosa said. He said the recent violence and the continuing presence of CHOP mean negotiations between protesters and the city aren’t accomplishing much. “I really believe at this point, the protesters … Read more
We’ve lost count of the number of shootings that have taken place inside Seattle’s cop-free Summer of Love block party, AKA the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone or CHOP. CHOPanistas seem to have a propensity of gunplay and shooting and killing each other. Last weekend’s activity — three shot, one dead — along with some … Read more
From the AP: Seattle police are investigating another shooting that happened near the city’s “occupied” protest zone. The shooting of the man in his 30s happened around 5 a.m. Tuesday in the Capitol Hill neighborhood east of downtown. A spokesperson at Harborview Medical Center said the man’s wounds were not life-threatening. It was the third … Read more
This past weekend’s violence in which three people were shot, one fatally, was apparently too much even for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, who’s been wholly sympathetic to the group inhabiting the festering sore that’s been infecting a section of her city’s downtown. Heronner has announced that the city will attempt to dismantle the Capitol Hill … Read more
By Larry Keane The crisis in Seattle is revealing gun control politicians are only interested in enforcing gun laws on the law abiding. When it comes to actual criminals, they’ve abandoned their citizens. Video surfaced of “Raz the Warlord” of Seattle’s infamous Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) or recently renamed the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest … Read more
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For another look at the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. Floyd family files request for United Nations to disarm the police The family of George Floyd has filed a petition … Read more
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