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SCOTUS To Hear Case On Guns And Domestic Violence

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider whether the government may forbid people subject to domestic violence orders from having guns, setting the stage for a major test of its ruling last year vastly expanding people’s right to arm themselves in public. The case will turn on the scope of a new legal standard …

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IL Man Shoots Himself During Dream About Intruder

Chicago’s ABC affiliate reports: A Lake Barrington man with a revoked FOID card shot himself while having a dream that an intruder was breaking into his home, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Deputies found Mark Dicara, 62, with a wound to his leg, authorities said. Deputies applied a tourniquet to stop the blood loss and he was then …

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Bush Judge Strikes Down NJ Ban On Guns In Schools

Courthouse News reports: A New Jersey law that bars firearms from schools, beaches and other areas deemed sensitive was gutted on Tuesday by a Republican-appointed federal judge. The 235-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb guts most of the provisions of Chapter 131, which had prohibited carrying a firearm in 25 designated “sensitive places,” including beaches, parks, schools, …

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TX House Advances Bill To Raise AR-15 Purchase Age

The Texas Tribune reports: In a surprise move days after the Allen mall shooting and hours before a key legislative deadline, a Texas House committee advanced a bill Monday that would raise the minimum age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles. The bill faces an uphill climb to becoming state law, but the vote marked a milestone for the proposal that …

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Florida Bill To Lower Gun-Buying Age Dies For Session

Florida Politics reports: A proposal to return the minimum gun-buying age to 18 is officially dead this year. The House in April passed a bill (HB 1543) on a 69-36 vote that would have reduced the purchase age for rifles and long guns. But no such legislation was ever filed in the Senate, and the clock has run out on …

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Atlanta Mass Shooter On The Loose, Multiple Injuries

Atlanta’s ABC affiliate reports: Atlanta police said multiple people have been injured in an active shooter situation on West Peachtree Street Wednesday afternoon. The shooter is still on the loose. Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was at the scene, where he saw what looked like hundreds of heavily-armed officers outside 1100 West Peachtree Street Northwest, which is a Northside Hospital facility. …

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Grand Jury Indicts Mother Of Child Who Shot Teacher

NBC News reports: The mother of a 6-year-old boy who seriously wounded his teacher with a gun in January will face charges in the shooting, a local prosecutor in Virginia said Monday. A grand jury indicted Deja Taylor on charges of felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of recklessly leaving a loaded firearm so as to endanger a child, …

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VA Teacher Shot By 6-Year-Old Files $40 Million Lawsuit

NBC News reports: Almost three months after Virginia teacher Abigail Zwerner was shot by a 6-year-old student, she filed a $40 million lawsuit Monday alleging school administrators shrugged off multiple warnings from staff and students who believed the boy had a gun and posed an imminent threat on the day of the shooting, and did so knowing the child “had …

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North Carolina Legalizes No-Permit Handgun Sales

The Associated Press reports: North Carolina residents can now buy a handgun without getting a permit from a local sheriff, after the Republican-controlled state legislature on Wednesday overrode the Democratic governor’s veto — a first since 2018. The House voted 71-46 to enact the bill, which eliminates the longstanding permit system requiring sheriffs to perform character evaluations and criminal history …

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CO Student Sought After Shooting Two School Officials

CBS News reports: A male student shot two school administrators at a high school in Denver on Wednesday, and the victims were taken to area hospitals, officials said. Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said the student fled the scene after the shooting. One victim was in critical condition and one was in serious but stable condition, Thomas said. The two …

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DOJ: Mom Bought Guns For Mentally Ill Son Who Said He’d Kill Biden, Gov, FBI, LGBTQs, Shoot Up Drag Show

From the Justice Department: A Michigan man was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with illegally possessing firearms after having been committed to a mental institution and while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison. The man came to the attention of the FBI after he made numerous threats over YouTube …

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Father Who Gave Gun To Mass Shooter Gets 18 Months

Peoria’s NPR affiliate reports: Jeffrey Reinking of Morton was sentenced Friday to 18 months in state prison for illegally returning an AR-15 rifle to his son Travis, who was mentally ill. The gun was later used by Travis in a deadly 2018 mass shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee Waffle House that left four people dead and four others wounded. He …

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Felon Tried To Board Flight With AR-15 And Fake Badge

NBC News reports: A New Jersey felon attempted to board a flight late last year with an AR-15 rifle, a Taser and a fake U.S. Marshal badge, according to a federal complaint that was unsealed Monday. Seretse Clouden has been charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon and fraudulent possession of an identification document and …

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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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Alec Baldwin Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter

The New York Times report: The actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer on the film “Rust” were charged on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of the movie’s cinematographer, according to court papers filed in the First Judicial District Court in New Mexico. “This reckless deviation from known standards and practice and protocol directly caused the fatal shooting,” …

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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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Seven Dead In CA Mass Shooting, Gunman Captured

The Associated Press reports: A gunman killed seven people at two agricultural businesses in Northern California, plunging the state into mourning again in the wake of its third mass killing in eight days. Officers arrested a suspect in Monday’s shootings, 67-year-old Chunli Zhao, after they found him in his car in the parking lot of a sheriff’s substation, San Mateo …

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