Guns

School Official Resigns After Leaving Gun In Bathroom

Abilene’s ABC affiliate reports: Rising Star’s superintendent has resigned days after parents in the district learned he left a firearm unattended in a school bathroom for a 3rd grader to find. District staff confirmed Superintendent Robby Stuteville submitted his resignation from Rising Star ISD effective immediately. Last week, Superintendent Stuteville confirmed a 3rd grader found his gun in the bathroom …

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TSA Agents Intercepted Record 6542 Handguns In 2022

The Associated Press reports: The woman flying out of Philadelphia’s airport last year remembered to pack snacks, prescription medicine and a cellphone in her handbag. But what was more important was what she forgot to unpack: a loaded .380-caliber handgun in a black holster. The weapon was one of the 6,542 guns the Transportation Security Administration intercepted last year at …

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Texas School Official Leaves Gun In Student Bathroom

Abilene’s NBC affiliate reports: A 3rd grader in Rising Star found a gun the superintendent left in a school bathroom. Superintendent Robby Stuteville confirms the 3rd grader found the gun back in January and notified a teacher immediately without moving or touching the weapon. Stuteville walked KTAB and KRBC through the incident, explaining that both he and the school principal …

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NRA Membership Down 1M After Corruption Scandal

From the pro-gun site The Reload: The National Rifle Association keeps shrinking. Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told attendees at the gun-rights group’s most recent board meeting that the organization is down to 4.3 million members, according to multiple sources. That represents a downturn of more than a million members since allegations of financial impropriety were leveled against LaPierre and …

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Missouri GOP Blocks Ban On Children Openly Carrying

The Associated Press reports: Missouri’s Republican-led House on Wednesday voted against banning minors from openly carrying firearms on public land without adult supervision. The proposal to ban children from carrying guns without adult supervision in public failed by a 104-39 vote. Only one Republican voted in support of it. Democratic Rep. Donna Baringer said police in her district asked for …

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Trump Judge: Domestic Abusers May Possess Guns

CNN reports: A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a conservative-leaning appeals court ruled Thursday. The ruling is the latest significant decision dismantling a gun restriction in the wake of the Supreme Court’s expansion of Second Amendment rights last year in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. …

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Senate Dems Seek Ban On Marketing Guns To Children

Reuters reports: A group of U.S. Senate Democrats will introduce legislation on Thursday directing the Federal Trade Commission to create rules banning the marketing of firearms to children, including the JR-15, which has become a target of gun control advocates. The planned legislation comes roughly a week after Democrats publicly called on the FTC to probe the marketing techniques of …

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GOP Blocks Attempt To Ban Guns In Committee Rooms

Politico reports: House Natural Resources Committee Republicans on Wednesday defeated Rep. Jared Huffman’s (D-Calif.) push to reinstate an explicit ban on carrying firearms to the committee room after a lengthy and occasionally heated debate. The panel’s chair, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), repeatedly declined to clarify, under questioning from Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Huffman, whether he interpreted …

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Superintendent Fired After Shooting By 6-Year-Old

NBC News reports: The Newport News School Board on Wednesday voted to replace its embattled superintendent amid the continuing fallout from a 6-year-old boy shooting his first-grade teacher this month. The board voted 5-1 to remove George Parker III as the head of the district of about 26,500 students. His separation is effective Feb. 1, School Board Chair Lisa Surles-Law …

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Teacher Shot By Six-Year-Old To Sue School District

The Associated Press reports: A Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student during class will sue the school district, the teacher’s attorney announced Wednesday. Diane Toscano, a lawyer for Abigail Zwerner, said Wednesday that on the day of the shooting, concerned teachers and employees warned administrators three times that the boy had a gun on him and was …

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Kansas Hunter Killed When His Dog Steps On Rifle

Wichita’s ABC affiliate reports: The Sumner County Sheriff’s Office says a man died over the weekend after his dog stepped on a rifle, causing the firearm to discharge. The incident happened at around 9:40 a.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of 80th Street, north-northeast of Geuda Springs. The sheriff’s office said the man was sitting in the front passenger seat …

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Police: LA Mass Shooter Likely Used Illegal Handgun

The Washington Post reports: Law enforcement officials have identified the gunman who killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, Calif., on Saturday night as Huu Can Tran. Police said Tran shot and killed himself following a manhunt. Tran was a 72-year-old man of Asian descent, according to police. He immigrated to the United States from China. …

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VA School Ignored Warnings About 6-Year-Old Shooter

The Washington Post reports: The Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student repeatedly asked administrators for help with the boy but officials downplayed educators’ warnings about his behavior, including dismissing his threat to light a teacher on fire and watch her die, according to messages from teachers obtained by The Washington Post. The previously unreported incidents raise fresh …

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LA Mass Shooter Apparently Dead After SWAT Standoff

Los Angeles’s NBC affiliate reports: Armored tanks — and a bomb squad — descended upon the white van in Torrance, Calif. before noon local time, in what became a more than hour-long standoff. Just before 1 p.m. local time, a SWAT team opened the passenger door of the vehicle, and then the side doors. Photos taken of the van showed …

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At Least Ten Dead, Ten Injured In LA Mass Shooting

The Los Angeles Times reports: Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The mass shooting, one of California’s worst in recent memory, happened in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue at around …

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Illinois Judge Blocks Ban On Sales Of Assault Weapons

The Hill reports: An Illinois state judge temporarily blocked the state’s assault weapons ban Friday, finding that the state government likely violated procedural regulations for passing legislation. A lawsuit against the measure was filed days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed it into law, banning the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and parts that convert handguns into …

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Las Vegas Gun Show Promotes AR-15 For Children

Buzzfeed reports: Just 10 days after a 6-year-old shot his teacher during class, a gun trade show will feature a JR-15 .22-caliber long rifle meant for kids. “The JR-15 is the first in a line of shooting platforms that will assist families in safely passing on the proud American tradition of responsible gun ownership to the next generation of recreational …

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Illinois Sheriffs Vow To Defy Assault Weapons Ban

Fox News reports: More than six dozen Illinois sheriffs have vowed to defy a gun-control law signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker that bans semiautomatic rifles. “Part of my duties that I accepted upon being sworn into office was to protect the rights provided to all of us, in the Constitution,” Edwards County Sheriff Darby Boewe said in a Facebook …

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Court: CA Can Share Gun Owner Data With Researchers

Courthouse News reports: A federal judge has declined a request to temporarily block a California law that allows the state to share personal information about gun owners with gun violence researchers. Assembly Bill 173 amended California firearms laws to authorize the state attorney general to disclose gun owners’ personal information to the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis, …

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Indiana Toddler Filmed Wielding Loaded Gun [VIDEO]

Yahoo News reports: January is not even over, but this weekend’s On Patrol: Live aired what may end up being the most shocking TV moment of the year. At the beginning of Saturday’s episode of Reelz’s law enforcement docuseries, police in Beech Grove, Ind. responded to reports of a diaper-clad child roaming the halls with a firearm at a local …

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