Mass Shootings

Record 52% Of Americans Say There’s A Gun In Home

NBC News reports: More than half of American voters — 52% — say they or someone in their household owns a gun, per the latest NBC News national poll. That’s the highest share of voters who say that they or someone in their household owns a gun in the history of the NBC News poll, on a question dating back …

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Gunman Dead After Shooting Four At Ohio Walmart

CBS News reports: Four people were shot Monday night in the Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio by a man who walked in and started firing, police in the Dayton suburb said. The victims were taken to area hospitals and their conditions weren’t known, police said. According to police, the gunman died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and officers didn’t fire …

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Parents Of MI Mass Shooter Now Want Separate Trials

The Detroit Free Press reports: After two years of fighting on a united front, James and Jennifer Crumbley are asking for separate trials in their historic case involving the Oxford school shooting carried out by their son. In new court filings, lawyers for the Crumbleys asked the judge to “sever” the couple’s upcoming trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, maintaining that …

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US Army Ammo Plant Tied To Many Mass Shootings

The New York Times reports: The initials on the bullets stand for the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. Built during World War II, the federal site, in Independence, Mo., has made nearly all the rifle cartridges used by the U.S. military since it pulled out of Vietnam. In recent years, the factory has also pumped billions of rounds of military-grade …

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Mass Shooter’s Father Gets 60 Days For Enabling Son

The Washington Post reports: The father of the man accused of killing seven people and wounding 31 at the 2022 Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., pleaded guilty Monday to seven counts of misdemeanor reckless conduct for his role in allowing his son to obtain firearms. Robert Crimo Jr. had been charged for “recklessly” sponsoring his son’s gun …

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FL Company Offers Free AR-15 With Purchase Of Roof

NBC News reports: A Florida roofing company expects to pick up more business this month after it launched a promotion Wednesday offering an AR-15 and a turkey to anyone who buys a roof. Roof EZ president Jason Polly said in an interview that the company’s “Roof and Gobble” promotion is for customers to protect their homes with a roof, bring …

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Maine To Probe Police Response To Mass Shooting

“A cornerstone of the ability to heal is to know the truth – in this case, the facts of what happened on that tragic night, of the months that led up to it, and of the police response to it. “It is important to recognize that, from what we know thus far, on multiple occasions over the last ten months, …

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Army Found Maine Shooter Unfit To Carry Weapons

The Messenger reports: In the months prior to the deadly massacre perpetrated by gunman Robert Card, military leaders determined the U.S. Army Reservist Sgt. 1st Class to be “non-deployable” and unfit to carry weapons before he went on a shooting spree. On Tuesday, the Army released a timeline of when it claimed officials first became aware of 40-year-old Card’s mental …

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Maine Shooter’s Family Begged For Help Months Ago

The Associated Press reports: Five months before the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history, the gunman’s family alerted the local sheriff that they were becoming concerned about his deteriorating mental health while he had access to firearms, authorities said Monday. After the alert, the Sagadohoc County Sheriff’s Office reached out to officials of Robert Card’s Army Reserve unit, which assured …

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NRA Ad Shows Johnson Opposing Background Checks

“So grateful to be an NRA member with you, because as NRA members, we understand that the Second Amendment is grounded in our fundamental freedoms. When they’re pushing a bill for universal background checks or trying to delay the amount of time it takes to obtain a firearm for self-defense, we have to remind them that what’s really at stake …

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Gun Shop Refused To Sell Silencer To Maine Shooter

ABC News reports: Nearly three months before Robert Card would tear through a bar and a bowling alley in rural Maine last week — killing 18 and injuring 13 — he tried to buy a silencer for a rifle at a local firearms store, the owner said Saturday. “He came in and filled out the form, he checked off a …

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WH Blasts Johnson On Mass Shootings Comments

The Daily Beast reports: The White House rebuked comments Johnson made to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, a day after 18 people were killed in two mass shootings in Maine, in which Johnson said that guns are not the cause of America’s unique mass shooting crises. Saying that it was “not the time” to talk about gun …

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Police Were Warned Weeks Ago About Maine Shooter

The Associated Press report: Police across Maine were alerted just last month to “veiled threats” by the U.S. Army reservist who would go on to carry out the worst mass shooting in the state’s history, one of a string of missed red flags that preceded the massacre. Two local law enforcement chiefs told The Associated Press that a statewide awareness …

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Two Dead And 18 Injured In Tampa Shootings [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: A fight between two groups turned deadly in Florida when a shooting in a Tampa street during Halloween festivities resulted in two deaths and 18 people hospitalized early Sunday morning, police said. One suspect is in custody and at least one more is being sought. Officers responded to the shooting in Tampa just before 3 a.m. …

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Maine Mass Shooter’s Sniper Rifle Was Bought Legally

CNN reports: The gun that investigators believe the Lewiston mass shooting suspect, Robert Card, used to kill 18 people and wound 13 others was purchased legally just days before he was hospitalized and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, multiple law enforcement sources told CNN. The rifle was a Ruger SFAR, chambered for high-powered .308 ammunition, the sources said. The …

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DeSantis Blames Mass Shootings On “Liberal Policies”

Florida Politics reports: “A lot of the guys who commit violent crime and yes, less than what we saw in Maine, a lot of these people go in and out of the justice system because of liberal, soft on crime policies. You do a crime, you should do the time. Stop cycling people back out, that will make communities safer,” …

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Dem Maine Rep Reverses, Backs Assault Weapons Ban

ABC News reports: Rep. Jared Golden, a Marine Corps veteran who lives in Lewiston, Maine, said Thursday that in light of the recent mass shooting in his hometown he was changing his view on banning assault-style weapons. “Humility is called for as accountability is sought by victims of a tragedy such as this one,” Golden said at a news conference …

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DeSantis Wouldn’t Sign Federal Red Flag Law If Elected

CNN reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday evening that he is not sure if Florida’s red flag law is effective in removing guns from dangerous people and he wouldn’t sign one – or any gun safety measure – if elected president. Instead, in response to Wednesday’s mass shooting at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, that has …

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Biden Issues Proclamation On Maine Mass Shooting

“As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on October 25, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at …

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LIVE VIDEO: Police Update On Maine Mass Shootings

USA Today reports: Maine Governor Janet Mills will join state and local public safety officials in Lewiston in a news conference Thursday morning in the wake of two shootings that killed at least 16 people Wednesday night. Authorities say the shooting started just before 7 p.m. at Schemengees Bar and Grille and Sparetime Recreation, a bowling alley. School districts canceled …

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