A court in San Marino has fined Italian professional cyclist Antonio Tiberi 4,000 euros (around $4,250) after he pleaded guilty to shooting a cat belonging to the tiny republic’s minister of tourism, Federico Pedini Amati, a court spokesperson confirmed to CNN. Tiberi, an Italian who lives in San Marino, also risks losing his residency status […]
The government of Canada is planning to freeze handgun purchases and sales and ban large-capacity rifle magazines. Taiwan says the United States is planning on “cooperation” between its National Guard and Taiwan’s military. The move runs counter to the rising threat from China.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The leader of a pro-gun group that has staged armed protests has been convicted of pointing a rifle at law enforcement while in Kentucky for a demonstration, officials said. A federal jury found John F. Johnson, who goes by “Grandmaster Jay,” guilty on Friday on charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement and […]
PEKIN, Ill.—An Illinois man faces up to three years in prison after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used to shoot and kill four people in 2018 at a Waffle House in Tennessee. A judge convicted Jeffrey Reinking last week of illegal delivery of a firearm to a person […]
An unnamed Metropolitan Police Department officer fatally shot a man reportedly holding a firearm on Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., according to law enforcement officials. The officers were responding to a call reporting a man with a long gun, though the “firearm” could have been an airsoft gun or paintball gun, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) […]
FBI agents, firefighters, and the sheriff’s department respond to a shooting in Silicon Valley, ATF director nominee David Chipman said he supports banning America’s most popular rifle, and bipartisan skepticism persists in the Senate for the Endless Frontier Act.
A school in Palmetto, Florida, has hired combat veterans with semi-automatic rifles as school guardians, to prevent attacks like the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last year. “If someone walks onto this campus, they’re going to be shot and killed,” said Manatee School for the Arts principal Bill Jones, via […]
