WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he would do everything in his power to keep Americans safe following the latest mass shooting in Colorado and pushed a pair of House-passed gun reforms, including a universal background checks measure and an assault weapons ban. Biden, after acknowledging there were still outstanding details to be learned about Monday’s massacre, insisted that enough was known to make an ardent call for new gun control. “I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common-sense steps that will save lives in the future,” he said in remarks from the White House. He listed a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as strengthening the background check system by closing …
March 22, 2021: Active Shooter Kills 10, to Inclue Hero Police Officer, in Boulder, Co Grocery Store
BOULDER, Colo. — Ten people were killed Monday, including a police officer, when a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, the second mass shooting in the U.S. in a week. “These were people going about their day, doing their shopping,” Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty said at a late-night press briefing. He described the day’s events as “a tragedy and a nightmare.” The police officer who died was identified as Eric Talley, 51, an 11-year veteran on the Boulder force. Talley was responding to the King Soopers grocery market when he was gunned down. His police chief, Maris Herold, appeared to be choking back tears as she spoke to the media Monday night and confirmed the death toll. “I have to …
March 22, 2021: More Gun Control Proposed After Atlanta Hate Crime: Easier to Buy a Gun than to Vote is the Justification
On Friday President Biden and Vice President Harris met with community leaders in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss the recent wave of violence targeting Asian Americans. Democratic Georgia State Senator Michelle Au was part of those talks. She joins CBSN with more on the meeting and why she says a gun control bill she’s sponsoring is the logical next step. Video Transcript – Communities across the country held vigils and protests this weekend demanding justice and calling for an end to anti-Asian racism. The demonstrations come after a gunman opened fire inside several Atlanta area spas, killing eight people. Six of the victims of Tuesday’s attack were women of Asian descent. The US has seen a surge of violent attacks targeting Asian-Americans …
March 21, 2021: More Gun Purchasing Waiting Periods Likely Post Atlanta Murders
Not long before the deadly Atlanta-area shootings spread fear and anger through Asian American communities nationwide, police say the attacker made a legal purchase: a 9 mm handgun. Within hours, they say, he had killed eight people, seven of them women and six of Asian descent, in a rampage targeting massage businesses. If Georgia had required him to wait before getting a gun, lawmakers and advocates say, he might not have acted on his impulse. “It’s really quick. You walk in, fill out the paperwork, get your background check and walk out with a gun,” said Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “If you’re in a state of crisis, personal crisis, you can …
March 17, 2020: ATF Arrests Florida Man for Selling “Lightning Link”
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has arrested a Florida man for selling a piece of metal engraved with the outline of a “lightning link” that turns a semi-automatic AR-15 into a fully automatic machine gun. The ATF’s move comes alongside a similar crackdown on 80-percent receivers and an ongoing debate about the legality of 3D-printed guns. In each case, federal regulators have made contradictory and unilateral decisions about the point at which a piece of metal or plastic becomes a regulated firearm or accessory. Kristopher J. Ervin, 40, was arrested March 2 and indicted Thursday on a charge of possessing an unregistered machine-gun conversion device, according to the Florida Times-Union. Ervin’s company, AutoKeyCard, operated under two domains, www.autokeycards.com and …
March 16, 2021: Feinstein at it again.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is at it again. She has again introduced legislation to ban the most popular selling centerfire rifle in America. She wants to bring California-style gun control to the rest of America. Here’s her problem… with 21 million background checks for the sale of a gun last year, America doesn’t want it. Sen. Feinstein introduced S. 736, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021. It was joined by a companion version in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 1808, introduced by U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.). Not a single Republican senator or representative has signed onto either bill. The bills would be far-reaching, expanding the failed 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, also written by Sen. Feinstein and then-Sen. Joe Biden when he was a …
March 17, 2021: Hate Crime Targeting Asians Results in Multiple Murders in Atlanta
A man captured in Georgia on Tuesday night is suspected in three shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors or spas that killed eight people, officials said. Four people were killed in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta, around 5 p.m., and four women died in two shootings in Atlanta less than an hour later, authorities said. The four killed in Atlanta appeared to be Asian women, as were two of the victims in the Acworth community of Cherokee County, officials said. The Cherokee Sheriff’s Office did not provide additional details or identifying information about the other victims. Officials have not disclosed a suspected motive. Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested, Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said. Atlanta police said Tuesday night …
March 16, 2021: Ammo Shortages Impacting Concealed Weapons Courses and Firearms Training
Mar. 16—When David Brown sets up his vendor booth at the annual gun show in Mitchell each spring, he typically has seven tables of ammunition for sale. At this year’s gun show that was held over the weekend at the Davison County Fairgrounds, Brown barely had enough ammo to fill up two tables. Since the pandemic swept the country, ammo has been flying off the shelves, leading to one of the biggest shortages Brown has ever witnessed. After the election of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, the shortage has intensified to levels that have some gun and ammo retailers worried about the survival of their businesses. “This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen ammo shortages, but it’s one …
March 13, 2021: Carjacking Thwarted by Situational Awareness in Jacksonville, FL
A recent carjacking attempt in Jacksonville, Florida shows us the value of situational awareness, quick thinking, and fast cars. Draper Younce, a Naval officer, got a nasty surprise in a parking lot. A man ran from around the side of an apartment building and pointed a handgun at him while he was sitting in his Tesla Model 3 talking on his phone. “The first thing I said was, ‘No, man, I’m not getting out of the car,’” Younce told FOX Business. “And the second thing I said … ‘this is a Tesla, you can’t steal a Tesla.’” What the would-be robber didn’t know was that the whole thing was caught on the vehicle’s eight cameras. While the cameras were originally added …
March 15, 2021: House Passes New Gun Legislation
The U.S. House Representatives, with the urging and support of Joe Biden, passed two bills on Thursday – H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446 – that would usher in a sweeping overhaul of how firearms are bought and sold in the U.S. Neither would impede criminals, who overwhelmingly obtain their firearms outside normal channels of lawful commerce. But together they would transform the constitutionally protected right to obtain firearms into a privilege administered at the whim of anti-gun bureaucrats. To understand why these bills are so consequential, it’s important to understand how retail firearm sales work under existing federal law. Currently, the primary means by which the federal government regulates firearms is through a network of licensed dealers (FFLs) making commercial sales. Anyone who repetitively …
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