Month: June 2014

WXYZ 7 News – by Heather Catallo

Keeping guns away from violent criminals is a top priority for hundreds of federal agents here in Detroit.

7 Action News Investigator Heather Catallo had an exclusive look inside the top-secret gun vaults at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

It’s a fascinating glimpse inside the ATF’s battle against violence and crime in Southeast Michigan.  The vaults at the Detroit Field Division house the weapons seized during criminal investigations, and the 7 Investigators got to see what’s normally kept under lock and key.   Continue reading “A glimpse inside top-secret ATF gun vaults”

Oregon Live – by Les Zaitz

Federal agents are tracing the history of the weapon used in the fatal shooting at Reynolds High School.

Six agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded to a request for help from Troutdale police. Among the tasks they are undertaking is an “urgent trace” on the gun. When they are done, agents could ultimately know the name of every person who owned the rifle used to kill one student and injure a teacher.   Continue reading “Oregon school shooting: ATF joins investigation, tracing gun history”

AmmoLand

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- Eric Cantor, the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, went down in a stunning defeat to GOA-supported David Brat.

Cantor, who represents Virginia’s 7th District, vastly outspent Brat, an economics professor at Virginia’s Randolph-Macon College.   Continue reading “Political Earthquake Shocks Washington, GOA-Backed Candidate Defeats Eric Cantor”

Oregon Live – by Jeff Mapes

Oregon’s continuing debate over gun control will almost certainly intensify following Tuesday’s shootings at Reynolds High School in Troutdale.

“When it hits home like this we can’t let it go on,” said state Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, the Legislature’s most ardent supporter of new restrictions on guns. “We lost another child today.”   Continue reading “Oregon high school shooting likely to heighten debate over gun control in state”

AOL

TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — A 15-year-old gunman who killed a student at an Oregon high school had an assault rifle, handgun and several magazines of ammunition hidden in a guitar case and duffel bag when he rode a school bus to the campus, police said Wednesday.

The attacker, Jared Michael Padgett, a freshman at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, entered a boys locker room on Tuesday at a gymnasium, where he “murdered a fellow student,” police Chief Scott Anderson said.   Continue reading “Police: Shooter at Oregon school had assault rifle”

Fox News

Justina Pelletier, the Connecticut teen taken from her family more than a year ago by Massachusetts officials after her parents took her to a hospital for help, made a tearful plea to the Bay State family court judge who holds her fate in his hands.

In the 45-second, videotaped plea, first posted on a Facebook page set up by supporters of the 15-year-old, Justina is seen sitting in a chair and pleading plaintively with Massachusetts juvenile court Judge Joseph Johnston.   Continue reading “Justina Pelletier makes tearful plea to judge, asking to go home”

Washington Post – by Mark Berman

Four months before a married couple shot and killed two Las Vegas police officers and a bystander, the police visited their home and determined that they didn’t pose any threat, authorities said Wednesday.

Detectives were dispatched to the home of Jerad Miller in February because the Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center was alerted that he had made threatening remarks to a government agency in Indiana, Kevin C. McMahill, assistant sheriff of Clark County, said during a briefing with reporters.   Continue reading “Police visited Las Vegas shooters earlier this year and determined that they weren’t a threat”

Daily Mail – by JILL REILLY and KIERAN CORCORAN

The Iraq government teeters on the brink of collapse this evening as Islamic jihadists led by a warlord considered ‘more virulent and violent than Osama bin Laden’ took control of a second city in as many days.

In a spectacular blow to the Shiite-led government, the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as Isis) and their allies seized oil-rich Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province followed by Tikrit where they freed hundreds of prisoners. There is now growing panic that Isis will move to take Baghdad, just 80 miles to the south.
Continue reading “Now Tikrit falls to Islamist terrorists”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man was arrested in connection with a threat that terrified commuters and snarled traffic on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel Tuesday evening, police said.

Donald Dangelo Wallace, 39, was arrested by Port Authority detectives at on 47th Street and 11th Avenue in Manhattan at around 11:50 p.m. Tuesday, Weehawken Police Detective Sgt. Thomas White said.   Continue reading “Police: Georgia Man Arrested For Making ‘Sniper’ Threat In Lincoln Tunnel Incident”

Wall Street Journal – by Reid J. Epstein

Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) voted against the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill last year, but on Wednesday he plans to “discuss the need for immigration reform.”

Mr. Paul will join former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Partnership for a New American Economy’s monthly series on immigration reform hosted by Grover Norquist.   Continue reading “Rand Paul to Discuss ‘Need for Immigration Reform’”

Breitbart – by JOEL B. POLLAK

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who lost his Republican congressional primary to Tea Party-backed Dave Brat in a shocking landslide Tuesday, is the highest-ranking Jew in the history of the U.S. Congress. As news of Cantor’s defeat spread, Jews on both sides of the aisle wrestled with what his defeat meant for American Jews in politics–and for Republican Jews in particular, who had long seen Cantor as a champion for their cause.   Continue reading “Jews Wrestle with Cantor Defeat”

RT News

In a scenario that could’ve been extremely devastating, the United States narrowly averted a nuclear disaster in 1961 when an atomic bomb nearly detonated after falling out of a B-52 bomber that broke up in the sky.

According to the Washington Post, the incident took place on January 21, 1961 – less than 20 years after nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and is explained further in a recently declassified report published by the National Security Archives.   Continue reading “Nuclear bomb nearly detonated after falling on North Carolina – declassified report”

RT News

Two residents of Lafayette, Colorado are suing the state, Gov. John Hickenlooper, and energy trade group Colorado Oil and Gas Association for the enforcement of the city’s fracking ban, which was passed last fall in a city-wide vote.

The class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boulder County District Court comes in response to a separate suit filed by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) in December that seeks to negate Lafayette’s ban on new oil and gas extraction in the city. Sixty percent of Lafayette voters supported the measure to curb hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in November.  Continue reading “Colorado residents sue state, governor to enforce local fracking ban”

RT News

Microsoft is attempting to fend off a search warrant served by federal prosecutors in the United States because the tech giant says the government lacks the authority to compel the company for customer data that’s stored overseas.

Experts are already saying that Microsoft’s attempt to squash a search warrant served last December marks the first time that a major company has fought requests from the Justice Department for digital information held on overseas servers. If the Silicon Valley corporation fails to win, however, then a precedent could be established to ensure prosecutors in the US will in the future have little problem asking for digital files even if that data lacks all other ties to America.   Continue reading “Microsoft fights US warrant demanding information from overseas servers”

Las Vegas Review Journal – by Mike Blasky

A Henderson police officer was hospitalized Wednesday morning after he was shot or struck by shrapnel during a fatal officer-involved shooting.

Police spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said the officer was in good condition. The officer was struck during a shootout with a man near Horizon Ridge Parkway and Gibson Road about 4:30 a.m. It’s unclear if the officer was directly shot or struck by shrapnel, she said.   Continue reading “Henderson police officer wounded, suspect killed in morning shooting”