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MINEOLA, N.Y. — A University of North Carolina student wounded in last summer’s shooting outside the Empire State Building is suing New York City police department.
Chenin Duclos (SHEHN’-ihn DOO’-kloh) and eight other bystanders were wounded by police gunfire, ricochets and fragments. Officers were engaged in a gunfight with a man suspected of gunning down a former co-worker. Continue reading “Empire State Building Shooting Lawsuit: Wounded Bystander Chenin Duclos Sues NPYD”
Hollywood films often show alien ships or giant monsters rising from the ocean depths to threaten humanity’s existence. The U.S. military envisions a more realistic scenario of hiding robotic drones, sensors or decoys on the ocean floor so that they can rise to the occasion when needed.
Continue reading “U.S. military wants to hide drones under the sea”
A Texas gun shop proprietor is calling for a boycott of Groupon (GRPN) after the coupon site canceled his deal for a concealed-handgun training course.
Michael Cargill, the owner of Austin’s Central Texas Gun Works, told us that he kicked off the deal on Tuesday and that it was intended to terminate Saturday night or when 600 people purchased it, whichever came first. He adds that due to runaway demand, his Groupon representative called the next day to increase the purchase limit to 1,500 buyers. But on Friday morning, the rep called again with bad news.
Continue reading “Gun Shop Owner Calls for Groupon Boycott After It Cancels His Deal”
The Journal News’ gun map highlighting the names and addresses of gun permit owners across New York’s Westchester and Rockland Counties is not only calling into question the safety of those homeowners, but it has also sparked concerns regarding its effect on real estate values in such “gun-concentrated” areas. According to Realtors across the country, the knowledge that a neighborhood is populated heavily with gun permit holders may cause house hunters to think twice about buying in that area.
Continue reading “Guns at Home: Do Neighborhoods’ Firearms Permits Lower Property Values?”
Huffington Post – by RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family’s drinking water had begun “bubbling” like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural gas.
Continue reading “EPA’s Water Contamination Investigation Halted In Texas After Range Resources Protest”
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Westchester’s County Executive has called on the Journal News to pull its controversial gun permit map from its website.
“The time has come to take the map down,” Rob Astorino wrote to the paper’s publisher and president Janet Hasson.
In the letter, Astorino asked that the Journal News “immediately shut down the interactive map of pistol permit holders.”
Continue reading “Westchester Exec Wants Journal News Gun Map Taken Down”
Huffington Post – by MALCOLM RITTER and LINDSEY TANNER
NEW YORK — Mental health experts say a new tougher New York state gun control law might interfere with treatment of potentially dangerous people and even discourage them from seeking help.
The law would require therapists, doctors, nurses and social workers to tell government authorities if they believe a patient is likely to harm himself or others. That could lead to revoking the patient’s gun permit and seizing any guns.
Continue reading “Mental Health Experts Worry New York Gun Laws May Discourage Proper Treatment”
New York police plan to distribute “bait bottles” of fake pain-killers equipped with invisible GPS devices in a drive to combat the scourge of pharmacy robberies by addicts and sellers looking for oxycodone tablets, which can fetch more than $80 per pill on the street.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced the novel approach at the 2013 Clinton Health Matters Conference in La Quinta on Tuesday, saying his city’s cases of oxycodone-related crime have included a retired police officer who resorted to robbing pharmacies to satisfy his craving for the highly addictive narcotic.
Continue reading “NYPD to try GPS in ‘bait bottles’ to track drug thieves”
Huffington Post – by MICHAEL GORMLEY
ALBANY, N.Y. — A key New York Senate leader and the Assembly speaker said they expect the state Legislature to vote Monday to enact what would be the nation’s first gun control measure following last month’s Connecticut school shooting.
“I think when all is said and done, we are going to pass a comprehensive gun bill today,” Sen. Jeffrey Klein told reporters Monday morning. “I’m very excited about it. I am very confident we are going to vote on a comprehensive bill that will be agreed on by the governor, the Senate and Assembly.”
Continue reading “New York Gun Control: Cuomo, Legislative Leaders Reach Tentative Deal On Assault Weapons, Magazines”
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New appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation.
The greatest threat to world peace is not from nuclear weapons and their possible proliferation. It is from drones and their certain proliferation. Nuclear bombs are useless weapons, playthings for the powerful or those aspiring to power. Drones are now sweeping the global arms market. There are some 10,000 said to be in service, of which a thousand are armed and mostly American. Some reports say they havekilled more non-combatant civilians than died in 9/11.
Continue reading “Drones are fool’s gold: they prolong wars we can’t win”
The nagging nanny of New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is at it again, engaging in his favorite activity, telling his citizens what they can consume.
This time, the Mayor is targeting prescription painkillers in the city’s emergency rooms. By mayoral edict, he will reduce the supply of certain pain medication in the emergency rooms owned by the city.
Continue reading “The Nanny pain pill Mayor Bloomberg is hard to swallow, again”
Huffington Post – by Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE — Police Commissioner Ray Kelly had ominous words for any mayoral contender looking to change the city’s most controversial crime-fighting tactics.
Ending stop-and-frisk or dismantling the city’s expansive counter-terrorism efforts would put the city at risk, Kelly said during a rare interview Thursday night at the 92nd Street Y.
Continue reading “Stop-And-Frisk: Ray Kelly Warns NYC Mayoral Candidates That End To NYPD Program Will Cost Lives”
The head of the New York City Police Department announced this week that the largest local law enforcement agency in the United States might soon rely on spy drones for conducting surveillance.
During an open conversation held Thursday between Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, the chief of police confirmed that New York’s boys in blue aren’t entirely opposed to acquiring an unmanned aerial vehicle for the sake of security.
Continue reading “Drones over New York? NYPD chief admits he’s interested in an UAV”
Huffington Post – by Sam Stein
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph Biden will deliver his recommendations for comprehensive gun violence legislation on Tuesday.
“There is really a very tight window to do this,” he told the press corps during his announcement Thursday.
Continue reading “Joe Biden Gun Control Recommendations To Come Tuesday”
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