By Michael Phillis and Jim Salter
St. Louis - A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school (click here) Monday morning warning, “You are all going to die!” before fatally shooting a teacher and a teenage girl, and wounding six others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire.
The attack just after 9 a.m. at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School forced students to barricade doors and huddle in classroom corners, jump from windows and run out of the building to seek safety. One terrorized girl said she was eye-to-eye with the shooter before his gun apparently jammed and she was able to run out.
Speaking at a news conference, Police Chief Michael Sack said fast actions by a security guard, along with police officers who “ran to the gunfire” helped end the shooting before more people were killed or hurt. He said the shooter was about 20 years old, but did not identify him and said a possible motive wasn't yet known....
October 24, 2022
Norfolk - A federal jury convicted a Virginia Beach man (click here) Friday on charges of possessing and selling unregistered machineguns.
According to court records and evidence presented at trial, between approximately October 2021 and April 2022, Patrick Tate Adamiak, 28, was obtaining illegal machine guns that were not registered and he was selling these machine guns online. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) purchased eight machine guns from him through a confidential source. They then executed a search warrant at Adamiak’s residence and recovered 25 additional unregistered machineguns. A search warrant at his residence found that Adamiak was in possession of two grenade launchers and two antitank missile launchers. Adamiak is a Master at Arms in the U.S. Navy....
October 24, 2022By Jackson Brown and Brad Broders
Memphis - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) (click here) officers at Memphis International Airport discovered a loaded firearm at a security checkpoint Sunday, bringing the total detected at the airport to a record 68 this year.
At approximately 6 a.m. Sunday, a loaded Ruger LCP .380 handgun was found in a passenger’s personal belongings. TSA officers notified local law enforcement, who removed the firearm and the passenger from the checkpoint area.
The previous annual record for Memphis was 67 guns, set in 2021....
At approximately 6 a.m. Sunday, a loaded Ruger LCP .380 handgun was found in a passenger’s personal belongings. TSA officers notified local law enforcement, who removed the firearm and the passenger from the checkpoint area.
The previous annual record for Memphis was 67 guns, set in 2021....
By Stacy Henson
Naples men with a car full of ammunition, guns, body armor and drugs (click here) face charges after Collier County Sheriff's Office deputies stopped them Sunday night.
Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said the arrests are significant and underscore that no traffic stop is ever routine.
“It could have been an entirely different outcome for these deputies given the amount of guns and ammunition inside the vehicle,” he said....
By Melissa Krull
Robert Swenszkowski is Utica University’s Professor of Practice. (click here) He’s also the Assistant Sheriff of Oneida County, and has 30 years of law enforcement experience. He says 3D guns have been turned in in other buyback programs around the country.
“I know in Utica, New York, Houston, Texas, and Spartenburg, South Carolina that 3D printed guns were submitted to the gun buyback program,” Swenszkowski said.
According to the state Attorney General’s Office, an individual in Utica exploited the program. In order to get more guns off the streets, the program has a no-questions-asked policy. This allows for the possibility of a gun being turned in that was used in a crime.
“What’s more important? Some victims, victims’ families are gonna see it probably as, ‘I’d like to see the person prosecuted over you getting the gun off the street’, but from a public safety perspective getting any gun off the street if it has the potential to harm someone may be just as effective so there’s certainly considerations that need to be given,” Swenszkowski said.
So should buyback programs refuse 3D printed guns?...
Guns are now freedom of expression in a loud way. Really? I thought loud ways of expression required speakers and/or a boom box. I think the language is a bit bizarre these days. We need to define moral content such as "freedom of expression."
