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Read More… LINCOLN — The hot-button debate of gun control versus gun rights brought a huge crowd — including at least two people openly carrying semi-automatic rifles — to the State Capitol on Friday. An estimated 400 gun rights advocates, many wearing gray T-shirts proclaiming “We the People Shall Not be Infringed,” crowded the hallways […]

Read More… A 20-year sentence and lifetime supervision will deter Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. and others like him from the “clarion call” of the Islamic State, federal prosecutors wrote in a memorandum seeking the maximum penalty for a Columbia man who pleaded guilty to aiding terrorists. In opposition to the long sentence, defense attorneys for the 28-year-old who plotted […]

Read More… (CNN)A small New Hampshire town’s only lawman was let go Tuesday night. Richard Lee, the now-former Chief of Police of Croydon, was asked to turn in his patrol car and his uniform. He did – and then headed for the snowy walk home in only boots, a hat, and his underwear. Lee says […]

Read More… (featured image by ABC30 Fresno) (CNN)One firefighter is dead and another is unaccounted for after battling a fire at the city library in Porterville, California. Multiple fire agencies responded to the blaze shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday. More than 50 firefighters were involved. Immediately after the fire started, two teens were seen running […]

Read More… A pair of Navy ships have for the first time nabbed a new kind of Iranian surface-to-air missiles during recent arms seizures in the Middle East. U.S. weapons experts have gotten their first look at a new “uniquely Iranian-designed missile,” Navy Capt. William Urban, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, told reporters on Wednesday. […]

Read More… Virginia Del. Mark Levine, author of the sweeping gun, magazine, and suppressor ban known as HB961, says an armed protester outside of his Alexandria, Virginia home over the weekend was there to intimidate him, and he’s demanding local police arrest the Second Amendment activist. Brandon Howard took to Facebook last week and published […]

Read More… How stupid would it be to create a list where certain people couldn’t buy cars? Most would think it’s pretty dumb, though some might see some wisdom in barring auto sales to people who have a history of dangerous driving. Now, let’s say the only way to have your name added to that […]

Read More… (featured image by msummerfieldimages) Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins has been on the front lines of the fight over our Second Amendment rights in Virginia over the past few months. He generated a lot of headlines when he vowed to deputize county residents so that they would be exempt from any ban on […]

Read More… Two off-duty Kentucky police officers, a married couple out for date night, thwarted an armed robbery by springing up from their table at a Lexington fried-chicken restaurant, drawing their guns and chasing the suspect out of the building. Detective Chase McKeown and Officer Nicole McKeown, both of the Elizabethtown Police Department, have been married for six months and […]

Read More… The Tohono O’odham Nation, a Native American tribe in southern Arizona opposed to the building of a border wall that could imperil wildlife and artifacts in the area’s fragile landscape, is accusing the Department of Defense of failing to consult with it under federal requirements. In a Feb. 7 letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, […]