SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues – three-quarters of them haven’t surrendered their firearms, according to data the Cook County sheriff will present Thursday. Sheriff Tom Dart is seeking $10 million from state lawmakers to tackle what he calls in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. The rate of stolen guns from cars climbed nearly every year and spiked […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Georgia’s attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority by making it illegal to leave firearms in unlocked cars. Savannah’s mayor and city council in April enacted the new city ordinance aimed at making it harder for criminals to steal guns, citing local police statistics showing more than 200 guns […]
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up a dispute over ghost guns — firearms that can be assembled and lack serial numbers — during its next term. The Biden administration had asked the justices to review a case in which a federal appeals court struck down a federal regulation governing sale of kits […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Coastal Georgia’s largest city will require guns left in empty vehicles be securely stored, an effort that Savannah Mayor Van Johnson says is meant to cut down on gun thefts from unlocked cars. “We are not trying to take anybody’s guns – that is a constitutional right granted by the Second Amendment,” […]
A Las Vegas man shot and killed his former daughter-in-law and her attorney — who was also her husband — before turning the gun on himself, police said. Lt. Jason Johansson said the two victims, who weren’t identified by authorities, were gunned down around 10 a.m. Monday during a child custody hearing in a law […]
WASHINGTON — More than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. came through unlicensed dealers who aren’t required to perform background checks over a five-year period, according to new data released Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. That represents 54% of the illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. between 2017 and […]
“Nobody goes to Florida anymore. It’s too crowded.” —NBC News, unintentionally doing its best Yogi Berra impersonation. Citing “a perfect storm of soaring insurance costs, a hostile political environment, worsening traffic, and extreme weather,” a weekend report from NBC left the impression — totally accidentally, you can be sure — that things have never […]
States are lining up to pass legislation that prevents the government from invading financial privacy when consumers purchase firearms and ammunition from retailers. These laws prohibit financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearm code, called a Merchant Category Code, for gun and ammo purchases at retailers when using a credit card. Florida, Idaho, […]
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled earlier this month that an illegal alien can not be charged for carrying a loaded firearm. What can go wrong? Judge Coleman is an Obama appointee and a liberal judge in Illinois. An illegal alien, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, was charged with carrying a loaded gun. In her ruling, Judge […]
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