Congress has now adjourned to start the Summer District Work Period and will return after Labor Day. During this Summer District Work Period, your Senators and Representative will be back home in their states and districts. Many lawmakers use this time to hold town hall meetings, and take questions from their constituents. These meetings offer a [...]
Friday, August 07, 2009
The United States Senate recently voted on an amendment that would have allowed Right-to-Carry permit holders to carry in all other states that also grant carry permits. The amendment, sponsored by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and David Vitter (R-La.), won a significant majority of votes, 58 to 39, but failed to reach [...]
EDINBURG – The clerk warned Alejandro Salinas about the suspicious men who had been hanging out in front of the convenience store for the past hour.
He told Salinas to be careful as he went back out to his Chevrolet Z-71 pickup truck, that he had just filled at the Aziz Convenience Store about 11 a.m. Saturday.
Salinas walked [...]
I had the opportunity to go to the Winchester Gallery Shooting Range in Fort Worth, TX to shoot my AR 15. It was pretty accurate and with a little kick. I shot with the .223 round as well as a 5.56 round. It was my first time shooting this one since i got it so [...]
A Pell City man is in the hospital with a gunshot wound after he allegedly broke into a Hanceville residence and attacked the owner Saturday.
According to Hanceville police reports, the gunshot victim was 32-year-old Charles Kendrick.
“He was shot once in the stomach with a 25-caliber automatic,” said Lt. Jimmy Rodgers of the Hanceville Police Department. [...]
Philadelphia police detectives met with the city’s district attorney’s office about a month ago to present their final evidence relating to an April 29 shooting outside a business in North Philadelphia owned by Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison that injured three people, a source with knowledge of the meeting told ESPN Monday night.
District Attorney [...]
The silence from Dubuque County Attorney Ralph Potter’s office after the shooting death of a Dyersville, Iowa, man on Nov. 29 might have some justification, according to one university law professor.
But as the county attorney’s office sorts through a controversial death investigation to determine whether force was justified, a recent analysis shows self-defense laws present [...]
Oakland
Killing ruled in self-defense: A 27-year-old man wounded in a Dec. 22 exchange of gunfire with a man police said he was trying to rob has died, authorities said Wednesday.
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There was a shot fired at a gun show in fort worth this past month. The dealer made the mistake of allowing a friend to place a gun on his table for sale without inspecting the weapon. The gun was unfortunately loaded. The weapon was handled and went off with a loud bang. The man [...]
LAREDO, Texas, March 8 (Reuters) - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs.
Assaults against Border Patrol officers rose 10 percent to 843 incidents in the year to September 2006 from [...]
