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For discrete carry when traveling, in addition to discrete storage, SBRs represents an excellent compromise for many, myself included. SBRs are lighter than their full-sized cousins, and the short barrel is handy for deployment and serious fighting within confined spaces, such as the interior of a typical sedan.
This 2017 file photo from a prior arrest provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Ernesto Godinez, who is accused of shooting an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent on Chicago's South Side on May 4, 2018.
A gun purchased by a Pasadena police officer turned up at a crime scene less than three years later and launched a federal investigation into illegal weapon sales throughout Southern California, according to newly released emails. Now-retired Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez was notified in November 2016 by a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives official in Los Angeles that one of his officers was linked to a gun recovered by another police department.
A judge in Chicago will decide whether a suspect in the shooting of a federal agent must remain jailed pending trial. Thursday's detention hearing in federal court for 28-year-old Ernesto Godinez comes a week after his arrest.
The second of at least two gun rights groups submitted a letter Tuesday to the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in opposition to a proposed ban on bump stocks. Gun Owners Foundation and Gun Owners of America filed petitions with the agency, making points toward the continued legality of the apparatus which allows a semi-automatic rifle to rapidly fire.
Gun control advocates are hailing New Jersey's release of near-real-time firearms trafficking data as a trailblazing use of federal information, but Second Amendment advocates and skeptical Republicans question whether the report amounts to a way around a federal limitation on the release of some data. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled the data Tuesday as part of a campaign promise to strengthen New Jersey's already-tight gun laws.
Gun control advocates are hailing New Jersey's release of near-real-time firearms trafficking data as a trailblazing use of federal information, but Second Amendment advocates and skeptical Republicans question whether the report amounts to a way around a federal limitation on the release of some data. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled the data Tuesday as part of a campaign promise to strengthen New Jersey's already-tight gun laws.
A mother's gut feeling is tough to shake, especially if it's been gnawing away for more than a decade. It's been 12 years since Diana Alvarado lost her teenage daughter in an early-morning shooting in the Bronx on Mother's Day.
Gov. Phil Murphy speaks at a press conference alongside Fred Guttenberg, right, the father of murdered Parkland, Florida student Jaime Guttenberg, and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal at a press conference in Hackensack. ( But as Gov. Phil Murphy vows to tighten the state's already-strict gun laws, data shows more than three-quarters of guns connected to crimes in the Garden State come from beyond its borders.
At least 74 people have been shot in the nation's third-largest city since Monday, a troubling uptick of violence for a metropolis that has seen some recent success in reducing shooting incidents. The surge in violence, which includes five people who have been fatally shot, comes as Chicago Police Department officials have expressed optimism in recent months that gun violence was on the downward trend in a city that tallied more than 1,400 homicides in 2016 and 2017 combined.
At least 70 people have been shot in the nation's third-largest city since Monday, a troubling uptick of violence for a metropolis that has seen some recent success in reducing shooting incidents. The surge in violence, which includes five people who have been fatally shot, comes as Chicago Police Department officials have expressed optimism in recent months that gun violence was on the downward trend in a city that tallied more than 1,400 homicides in 2016 and 2017 combined.
An ATF agent who is part of a newly-created strike force aimed at stemming gun violence in Chicago was critically wounded Friday during an investigation in one of the city's most violence-plagued neighborhoods, police said. Federal and local police officers were taking part in an early-morning joint operation in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood when the agent was wounded in the face by an assailant, according to Chicago Police.
CHICAGO At least 48 people have been shot in the nation's third-largest city since Monday, a troubling uptick of violence for a city that has seen some recent success in reducing shooting incidents. The surge in violence, which includes four people who have been fatally shot, comes as Chicago Police Department officials have expressed optimism in recent months that gun violence was on the downward trend in a city that tallied more than 1,400 homicides in 2016 and 2017 combined.
EAST DONEGAL TWP., LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, state and local police are asking for the public's help for information about more than 700 pounds of explosives missing from an Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline construction site in Marietta.
Federal authorities have doubled the reward to $20,000 for information on the theft of hundreds of explosives from a worksite in Pennsylvania. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says approximately 700 pounds of dynamite and 400 blasting caps were stolen over the weekend from a Gregory General Contracting Company site in the southeastern part of the state.
Further investigation has shown more dynamite was stolen from a Lancaster County construction site than originally believed, federal officials said Wednesday afternoon. That inventory boosted the amount of pilfered explosives to 704 pounds, said Special Agent Charlene Hennessy of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation , the trade association for the firearms industry, are seeking information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the burglary and theft of firearms from Express Pawn, in Columbus. ATF is offering a reward up to $5,000, which will be matched by the NSSF for a total reward up to $10,000.
In February 2016, Montana complained to the security officer at the shipyard that people were stealing his property from the yard. The NCIS officer thought Montana was experiencing "some mental issues" due to the way that Montana was acting.