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Bank of America plans to stop lending to manufacturers of “military-style firearms” used by civilians, an executive told Bloomberg.
“We want to continue in any way we can to reduce these mass shootings,” Anne Finucane, vice chairman of Bank of America (BAC), said in an interview. “It is our intention not to finance these military-style firearms for civilian use.” Continue reading “Bank of America to stop lending to makers of ‘military-style firearms’”
Courthouse News – by Nathan Solis
LOS ANGELES (CN) – The challenge of a California law requiring gun manufacturers to implement technology that may not yet exist landed at the California Supreme Court on Wednesday, raising questions about potentially impossible rules and standards.
Since 2013, California’s Unsafe Handgun Act requires two identifying microstamps be placed on a cartridge when a bullet is fired. Continue reading “Gun Makers Fight ‘Impossible’ California Requirement”
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court says a man who had a loaded handgun in his glove compartment violated Wisconsin’s concealed carry law.
Police in Milwaukee stopped Brian Grandberry in 2014 and found a loaded semi-automatic pistol in the glove compartment. Grandberry didn’t have a concealed weapon permit and prosecutors charged him with violating the state’s concealed carry law. Continue reading “Court: Gun in glove compartment violated concealed carry law”
A man who was released from a Mississippi mental hospital, where he was sent briefly for acting erratically and after cops found several weapons in his vehicle, is now behind bars — because he asked for the guns back.
Steven Drew Montana argued that doctors had cleared him of any mental issues, so Pascagoula police, backed by a court order, handed over his seized firearms, an AK-47 and Glock pistol. Continue reading “Man whose firearms were returned by police after mental hospital stay now facing gun possession charges”
President Donald Trump’s latest order, in which he demands an end to “Catch and Release,” comes less than a month after he signed the omnibus spending bill which expanded the program, allowing for more illegal aliens caught at the border to be released into the United States.
Catch and Release is the process where illegal aliens caught by federal immigration officials are released back into the U.S. until their immigration court hearing. Part of the reason for their release into the country is because the federal government refuses to fund the space needed to detain illegal aliens until their hearing. Continue reading “Trump Orders End to ‘Catch and Release’ of Illegal Aliens After Expanding Program Last Month”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents on Monday raided the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing records on topics including a $130,000 payment made to a porn actress who says she had sex with Trump more than a decade ago.
The raid on Cohen’s office was done by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and was based at least partly on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, according to Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan. Continue reading “Attorney: Federal agents seize documents from Trump lawyer”
A manhunt is underway for a suspect — whom police say is armed and dangerous — wanted for a triple killing in Illinois.
Early Saturday morning, 22-year-old Raheem King was allegedly on a private charter limousine-style coach and shot three other passengers with an assault rifle, said police in Rockford, Illinois, which is about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. Continue reading “Man with assault rifle allegedly shot dead 3 other passengers on charter bus: Police”
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria and its main ally Russia blamed Israel for carrying out an attack on a Syrian air base near Homs on Monday which followed reports of a poison gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on a rebel-held town.
Israel, which has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbour’s seven-year-old civil war, has not confirmed nor denied mounting the raid. Continue reading “Syria, Russia accuse Israel over strike on Syrian air base”
A pilot with the U.S. Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds flight-demonstration team died Wednesday when the pilot’s F-16 crashed near Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas.
The Thunderbirds pilot died during a routine training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range around 10:30 a.m., the Air Force confirmed in a statement. Continue reading “Thunderbirds pilot dies in F-16 crash in Nevada”
A convicted drunk driver who broke back into the U.S. after being deported can stay, and was released from jail Monday, thanks to a California judge’s ruling.
In addition to drunk driving, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforecment (ICE) officials report that Carrillo has also been convicted of possession of false identification.
Continue reading “Judge Rules Convicted Drunk Driver, Previously-Deported Illegal Be Set Free, Allowed to Stay in U.S.”
The woman who opened fire on three people before killing herself at YouTube’s California headquarters has been identified as a frequent user of the site who was furious with the company for their ‘dictatorial’ new policies.
Nasim Aghdam, 39, shot a man and two women with a handgun when she stormed YouTube‘s headquarters in San Bruno on Tuesday afternoon. Continue reading “YouTube shooter was animal rights activist with vendetta against the site”
A woman shot multiple people Tuesday at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, according to San Bruno Police.
Sources tell KRON4 that a woman shot and killed her boyfriend.
Police say the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Continue reading “Multiple injured in shooting at YouTube HQ – Live Feed”
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued California over a law that aims to give the state power to override the sale of federal lands, the latest battle between President Donald Trump and the nation’s most populous state.
California vowed to fight for the state’s first right to purchase federal lands or to arrange for a specific buyer — part of an aggressive effort in the heavily Democratic state to thwart the president’s agenda in his first year. Lawmakers who passed the law last year cited concerns that the Trump administration would allow more logging, oil drilling or development on some of the 46 million acres owned by the federal government in California. Continue reading “Trump administration sues California over sales of US land”
Dallas Morning News – by Tom Steele
A Fort Worth woman was arrested Sunday night after authorities say she shot an Arkansas state trooper during a traffic stop.
Trooper Kyle Sheldon pulled over Elsbeth Tresa Kittinger, 49, along U.S. Highway 270 in Rockport, about 40 miles southwest of Little Rock, around 8:45 p.m. When he asked her to step out of her Dodge pickup, she shot him, according to the the Arkansas State Police.
Continue reading “Fort Worth woman shot Arkansas state trooper during traffic stop, authorities say”