Mass Shootings

Wayne LaPierre Tries To Save NRA By Blaming Himself

Courthouse News reports: Wayne LaPierre is spending his waning days as the NRA’s CEO on the witness stand of a Manhattan courtroom, where he admitted Monday that billing some gaudy personal expenses to the nonprofit was “not the right thing to do.” New York AG Letitia James claims that LaPierre for years treated the NRA like his “personal piggy bank” …

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Grand Jury To Consider Charges For Uvalde Police

The Uvalde News-Leader reports: A jury has been convened in Uvalde to determine if law enforcement officers will face criminal charges related to the attack at Robb Elementary School. On Friday, Jan. 19, a dozen people were selected to serve on a special grand jury that is expected to spend at least six months studying the May 24, 2022, Robb …

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Former NRA Lobbyist Testifies Against Wayne LaPierre

Courthouse News reports: A former top lobbyist for the National Rifle Association said in court Thursday that he was “disgusted” to learn that the group’s longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre put more than $250,000 in luxury clothing expenses on the NRA’s tab. Christopher Cox was once viewed as the likely successor to LaPierre. He ran the NRA’s lobbying arm, the NRA …

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Florida Police Release Racist And Anti-LGBTQ Manifesto Of Nazi Who Committed Dollar General Mass Shooting

Florida Politics reports: Months after a racially motivated murder of three people in a Dollar General in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood, the Sheriff’s Office has finally released the killer’s manifesto. “No matter what happens, there will be more of me. Expect more of me. By God, we’ll have our home,” it reads. On that fateful August day, the Clay County-based …

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Wayne LaPierre: I Needed $6.5M Mansion For “Safety”

Courthouse News reports: Safety is a top priority for Wayne LaPierre, the soon-to-be-retired CEO of the National Rifle Association. According to his defense team, it’s the reason he had to fly private on chartered jets instead of public airliners. It’s also the reason the NRA was helping him procure a $6.5 million Texas mansion in 2018. “There’d been a number …

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DOJ Report Blasts Police “Failures” In Uvalde Shooting

The Texas Tribune reports: The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a withering report into the hundreds of Texas law enforcement officers’ fumbled response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, finding “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training.” The long-anticipated 575-page report detailed the many failures of the May 24, 2022 response, but concluded the most significant …

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Club Q Mass Shooter Gets Federal Hate Crime Charges

The Associated Press reports: The shooter who killed five people and endangered the lives of over 40 others at a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs appeared in federal court to face federal hate crimes Tuesday. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, pleaded not guilty to the federal charges Tuesday. Last year Aldrich was moved to the Wyoming State Penitentiary due to safety …

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Trump Judge Rules Guns Are Allowed At Post Offices

Reuters reports: A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump in Tampa, reached that conclusion in dismissing part …

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Feds Seek Death Penalty In 2022 Buffalo Mass Shooting

The Associated Press reports: Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. Payton Gendron, 20, is already serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole after he pleaded guilty to state charges of murder and hate-motivated domestic terrorism in the …

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TODAY: Corruption Trial Begins For NRA And LaPierre

Reuters reports: The corruption trial of the National Rifle Association and its longtime leader Wayne LaPierre is likely to begin on Monday in a Manhattan courtroom, just three days after LaPierre’s sudden resignation as the gun rights group’s chief executive. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the NRA and LaPierre in August 2020, saying the group diverted millions of …

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DeSantis: Kids Used To Bring Rifles To School In The 1950s And Therefore We Didn’t Have Mass Shootings

“This was [the Iowa shooter] somebody who was really hopped up on this gender ideology and you saw it in the profile, you know, the media doesn’t want to talk a lot about that because it doesn’t fit their narrative. “Unfortunately, what you find through all this is like, I mean, the left will use some of this mental health …

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Wayne LaPierre Resigns From NRA: “Health Reasons”

Fox News reports: Longtime National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre announced his resignation Friday, Fox News Digital has learned. “With pride in all that we have accomplished, I am announcing my resignation from the NRA,” LaPierre said in the NRA’s press release, which was exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital. “I’ve been a card-carrying member of this organization for most …

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Police: Iowa School Shooter Killed One, Wounded Five

CNN reports: At least one person was killed in a shooting at a school in Perry, Iowa, on Thursday, according to Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Assistant Director Mitch Mortvedt. That person was a sixth-grade student at the middle school, he said during a news conference. Five other victims are being treated at hospitals in the area, according to Mortvedt. …

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FL Bill Ends Waiting Period To Buy Assault Weapons

Jacksonville’s CBS affiliate reports: A bill filed ahead of the upcoming Florida legislative session could potentially allow people to obtain firearms either before three-day waiting period expires or before their background check clears, undoing a key piece of the gun safety legislation passed after the Parkland Shooting. Prior to that legislation the three-day waiting period only applied to handgun sales, …

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Dem Senators Regret Their Votes After Sandy Hook

The Washington Post reports: Now, as mass shootings have become more frequent in the decade since Sandy Hook, four current senators and three former senators have taken the remarkable step of recanting some or all of their 2013 positions. In emotional interviews with The Washington Post in recent weeks, some expressed deep regret for not pushing at the time for …

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Illinois Parade Mass Shooter To Represent Himself

NBC News reports: The man accused of firing an assault rifle into crowds at a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago last year, killing seven people, said Monday that he plans to represent himself at his trial, which is set to start in February. Robert E. Crimo III, wearing a red shirt and red handcuffs, appeared in a Lake County …

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Michigan School Shooter Gets Life Without Parole

The Detroit News reports: The teen who killed four people at Oxford High School on Nov. 30, 2021 was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole Friday. After a wrenching day of emotional statements from victims touched by the Nov. 30, 2021 Oxford High School shooting, the shooter told an Oakland County judge he has done terrible …

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Mass Shooting At Las Vegas College: Suspect Dead

ABC News reports: A suspect is dead after reports of an active shooter at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The university said shots were reported at Beam Hall as well as the school’s student union. There “appears to be multiple victims,” according to police. A ground stop was initiated at Las …

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Gunmaker Shutters NY Plant After Sandy Hook Payout

Axios reports: RemArms, previously known as Remington Arms, will close its gun factory in New York next year, per the Observer-Dispatch of Utica. The decision comes as the gun manufacturer, considered the oldest gun maker in the U.S., has twice filed for bankruptcy since 2018 and has been subject to layoffs and temporary closures in recent years. Last year, the …

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Nazi Flags Found In Home Of Walmart Mass Shooter

Newsweek reports: Walmart mass shooting suspect Benjamin Charles Jones may have been at least partially inspired by a racially motivated violent extremist ideology, according to the FBI. The 20-year-old is suspected of using a Hi-Point .45 caliber carbine to shoot four people at a Walmart in Beavercreek, near Dayton, Ohio, on November 20 before turning the gun on himself. Officers …

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