For several years, I have written in late December about our city having once again reached a new and dreadful homicide mark. This time, it’s different. On Monday, the city recorded its 200th homicide in 2021 — an annual death toll not seen since 2003. And we have…
The home defense AR-15 has become quite popular in recent years. The AR-15 is America’s most popular rifle, and it’s easy to see why someone would choose the AR-15 for home defense. An AR-15 by itself gets you most of the way there, but there are a few…
Unidentified Palestinian gunmen fired on the Jenin municipality building on Thursday, the latest in a string of violent incidents to hit the northern West Bank city. The incident came as Jenin’s governor told The Times of Israel this week that he would bring back order in the area.…
Nov. 26, 2021Updated: Nov. 26, 2021 2:18 p.m. One man is dead and two others injured after a gun battle broke out in an East Side home on Nov. 25, 2021.Ken Branca One person is dead and two others injured after a gathering at an East Side home turned…
Russian engineer and arms designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov achieved fame for his eponymous invention – the AK-47 or ‘Kalashnikov’ rifle – that would cause its creator regret in later life. There’s a startling contradiction in the way Mikhail Kalashnikov has been portrayed by the media since his death less…
1 of 3 Disabled U.S. Air Force and Army veteran J.D. Roberts, of San Antonio, Texas, takes a spin with daughter Brooke, 9, testing the mobility of his new Action Trackchair, an offroad power wheelchair that uses tracks instead of wheels, outside the fraternity house for LSU’s Alpha…
Traditionally, the Wisconsin gun deer season launches the weekend before Thanksgiving and runs through the Sunday following the national holiday. This year’s opening weekend found me on family property in north-central Wisconsin with my back to a huge oak tree and a lever-action rifle sitting across my lap.…
Nov 25, 2021, 3:15pmUpdated 1h agoBy: Associated PressTwo officers responded to a 911 call reporting a suspect with a gun on Beaumont Avenue in the Bronx around 8 p.m., Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a news conference Wednesday.Shea said one female officer and one male officer arrived…
U.S. District Courthouse in Cedar Rapids. WATERLOO – A Waterloo man who was found with three guns while on parole for a botched robbery has been sentenced to federal prison on firearms charges.Adnan Alibegic, 28, was sentenced to nine years and two months in prison on a charge…
The State Government has proposed strict new laws on gun owners in a bid to stop the weapons ending up in the hands of bikies. Proposed changes would see bikies slapped with a 10 year firearm prohibition order that would allow police to stop and search them without…
