A close call for an Illinois woman who was able to defend herself ......
MOLINE, Ill. - An Illinois woman with a concealed carry firearm was able to defend herself after a man armed with a knife forced himself into her car, police say.
A man armed with a knife forced his way into a woman's car near SouthPark Mall on Sunday, according to a statement from Detective Michael Griffin with the Moline Police Department.
During a struggle, the woman's arm was cut. The armed man then forced her to drive him to a rural area of Rock Island County.
Once they stopped, the victim - who had a concealed carry permit - was able to get to her firearm, according to Griffin's statement. The armed man then ran off and the victim drove herself to the hospital, where police were then called.
Floyd R. May, 61, was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery with a weapon, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and aggravated assault. He was held in the Rock Island County Jail on $550,000 bond.
Stories about the use of firearms in self defense don't get much national coverage. The scenario is that you are driving in your vehicle when ....
PLANT CITY, Fla. (WFLA) – A man who had just been released from prison after serving time for a road rage killing was shot and killed during an encounter in Plant City Wednesday morning, authorities say.
Wednesday’s road rage incident happened at 7 a.m. near the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Branch Forbes Road.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, one driver stopped his car in front of the other, got out of his pickup truck and approached the motorist behind him. That’s when an argument escalated between the two.
Investigators say the car’s driver, 42-year-old Robert Padgett, warned Gary Lynn Durham, who was driving a pickup truck, before he pulled out a gun and shot him.
When paramedics arrived, they found Padgett giving CPR to Durham, who later died.
According to the sheriff’s office, Durham had recently been released from prison for killing a man during a road rage incident. He spent 11 years behind bars.
A sheriff’s office spokesperson said Padgett will not be arrested and that he is cooperating with the investigation.
“He was trying to do the right thing and make sure the individual would survive,” HCSO Col. Donna Lusczynski said. Padgett was released by deputies pending a State’s Attorney’s Office review of the case.
The lame-duck leftist totalitarian freak Barack Obama rules by fiat and the latest questionable executive orders pushing more gun control are no exception. First a short article from TheHill:
Gun dealers will soon be required to report lost and stolen firearms to the federal government.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on Monday published new rules requiring gun dealers to report firearms that are stolen from their property. The requirements will extend to firearms that go missing in transit to a customer. Such weapons are linked to more than 1,300 crimes each year, according to the ATF.
Gun dealers must also notify the local authorities in addition to the ATF. They will have two days to report the missing weapons. If a federal firearms licensee later finds the guns, they must once again notify the agency.
The ATF proposed similar rules in 2000 and 2014 but did not put them in place. The reporting requirements are part of President Obama’s gun control push, which he launched last week with an emotional speech from the White House.
Citing inaction in Congress, Obama announced a series of executive actions on guns, including expanding the definition of gun dealer so that people selling weapons online or at gun shows will also be required to conduct background checks.
The rule on reporting gun thefts, which was also part of Obama's announcement, goes into effect in 30 days.
Any Federal Firearms Licensee who has knowledge of the theft or loss of any firearms from their inventory must report such theft or loss within 48 hours of discovery to ATF and to the local law enforcement agency. (Regulations at 27 CFR § 478.39a and implementing section 923(g)(6) require that the report of theft or loss be made by telephone and in writing to ATF). Upon discovery of any theft or loss of any of your firearms:
First, call your local law enforcement agency to report the theft or loss. Contacting the local law enforcement authorities is essential to the quick recovery of firearms taken in a crime. If the firearms are unaccounted for during inventory, you should make it clear to the authorities that there is no evidence of a crime and that the disposition of these firearms is unknown and may stem from a record keeping error.
Second, call the ATF’s Stolen Firearms Program Manager toll free at 1-888-930-9275. They can also assist in the preparation of the Theft / Loss Report for submission. ATF will work with the local law enforcement authorities investigating the theft.
Third, complete the report form (ATF Form 3310.11) and attach any continuation sheets necessary (ATF Form 3310.11A) and mail it to ATF’s National Tracing Center. Be sure to submit the original form(s) to ATF and retain copies for your records.
Fourth, complete the report form (ATF Form 3310.6) (INTERSTATE) for firearms missing in shipment; reports can be taken by either party, the Shipper, Consignee/Receiver or the Carrier. Normal Business Hours are 7:30 am to 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time Email or Fax your 3310.11 (Theft/Loss) or 3310.6 (Interstate): Email: stolenfirearmsprogrammanager@atf.gov(link sends e-mail) 1) Fax at 304-260-3676 (Avaya Email) or 2) Fax at 304-260-3671 (Regular Fax)
**** ATF does not take reports of stolen firearms from private citizens:
If you are an individual needing assistance in obtaining a serial number for a firearm, ATF is unable to assist private citizens in locating serial numbers as there is no national registration system. One of the following options may assist you: 1. Contact the firearms dealer where you purchased the firearm. 2. If the firearms dealer is out of business and your inquiry is in reference to a stolen firearm, contact your local police department. It is possible they will submit a request to the National Tracing Center for a Records Search Request assuming the circumstances are connected to a bona fide criminal investigation. 3. Contact your state firearms registration office if your state has one. If you are a law enforcement agency and require assistance in obtaining a serial number for a firearm reported stolen by an individual, your request must be in writing. A search of the Out of Business Records can be obtained for a bona fide criminal investigation. Send the request on letterhead/fax, with your ORI along with your name and case number. You must also provide the name of the dealer, time frame of purchase, firearm information and all the purchaser information including any identifiers. Your request can be faxed to 800-578-7223, attention Record Search Requests. Last Reviewed June 12, 2015
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Strange that the Commander in Chief and his advisers don't know that this requirement is in place already. Well, of course he does, but as MIT's Jonathan Gruber pointed out, the Democratiic party relies on the stupidity of their voters/supporters to keep them in power. .
A 'mass shooting' by a deranged gunman in Oregon seeking publicity got the results he desired. Before the victim's bodies were room temperature, the Obama administration and their coalition were quick to politicize the issue by calling for more gun control without mentioning the measures they propose would have had ZERO effect on the shooting in Oregon and elsewhere.
A few days pass and the leftist coalition sends out their mindless drones to spew their disproven gun control 'facts' again. Billionaire Bloomberg backed Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords has fully discredited himself on the issue of gun control, yet reappears again right on cue.
Media stunts and flat out lies are Mark Kelly's specialty. Remember this stunt ?
An Arizona gun store says it has canceled a recent purchase of an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle by Mark Kelly thwarting the retired astronaut's attempt to demonstrate how easy it is to buy high-powered weapons.
Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords and an outspoken advocate for new gun control measures, had in recent interviews said he was buying the rifle to showcase what he said are unobtrusive background checks
Doug MacKinlay, owner of Diamondback Police Supply, said it was Kelly's statements that caused him to stop the sale.
"I determined that it was in my company's best interest to terminate this transaction prior to his returning to my store to complete the Federal Form 4473 and NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) required of Mr. Kelly before he could take possession of this firearm," MacKinlay posted on the Tuscon store's Facebook page Monday.
MacKinlay said he sent a full refund to Kelly and nixed the transaction because Kelly made statements in the media that the rifle purchase was "for reasons other then (sic) for his personal use."
Kelly could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday
Today Mark Kelly is back in the news telling one of his favorite lies invented by Billionaire Bloomberg's gun control groups. Excerpted from TheHIll.com
Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously injured in a mass shooting, is calling on people across the country to pressure Congress for more gun control in the wake of a mass shooting in Oregon.
Kelly, who founded Americans for Responsible Solutions, a group in favor of tighter firearm restrictions, said 40 percent of guns are sold without background checks.
Mark Kelly also makes an appearance on Jake Tapper's State of the Union where the 'factoid' will remain unquestioned.
When Mark Kelly said it during his last media campaign it wasn't true either. Yet, the professional liar and propagandist will be quoted again in the news and never questioned by a complicit media. Here was Mark Kelly a few years ago telling the same lies...
A government, aided by the media that will lie to you to eliminate your natural rights and disarm you is a greater threat than any lunatic with a gun. These lunatics in their positions of power and privilege peddling propaganda, trampling on the Bill of Rightst to make you peasants once again is why the 2nd amendment was written. Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
--Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788,
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons entrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
The Washington Post reports the jailbreak of drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman from prison in Mexico. The Mexican government and the Obama administration's connections to Guzman are nothing short of criminal. Guzman heads the Sinaloa drug cartel, the most powerful in Mexico and it happens to control the drug trade in Chicago . This was the same drug cartel that was armed with 'assault weapons' by the ATF under Barack Obama and Eric Holder. The same administration that uses increasing gun violence in Mexico to push for more gun control in the United States.
MEXICO CITY — Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the world’s most famous drug lord, has escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico for the second time in his drug-running career, a spectacular breach of security that set off a massive manhunt in the early hours Sunday.
For the past year and a half, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel had been incarcerated inside the Altiplano, a federal facility set amid farmland west of the capital that holds the top captured drug bosses and has been described as the country’s most impenetrable prison.
That all changed late Saturday night, when Guzman slipped out of the prison through a rectangular passage in the shower area of his cell that led to a nearly mile-long tunnel running underneath the prison, according to Mexico’s national security commissioner, Monte Alejandro Rubido.
The Associated Press video reports that this is his SECOND escape from prison in Mexico.
Washington Post continued:
In a brief morning news conference, Rubido said that Guzman was last seen inside the prison around 8 p.m. while receiving his daily dose of medication. After guards realized he had disappeared, they found the hatch that led by ladder down to the tunnel, which was illuminated, perforated with PVC piping for ventilation and equipped with adapted motorcycle-on-rails to whisk the drug lord to freedom.
The escape of Guzman is a staggering blow for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who had been building a strong reputation for arresting top drug bosses from all the major cartels. However, as his administration has succeeded in weakening some cartels, such as the Zetas and the Knights Templar, others are now ascendant, including the New Generation cartel in Jalisco.
But the failure to hold the country’s most important drug trafficker reveals the weakness of Mexico’s justice system and will add to the perception that the state has become so riddled with corruption that powerful criminals can in fact exist above the law.
The manner of Guzman’s escape suggests that his rescue operation was well-planned and financed and may have occurred with the complicity of officials inside the prison.
But in the Sinaloa Cartel, Guzman still has a large and lucrative drug-running operation to welcome him back into the fold.
In February 2014, Guzman was captured by a team of Mexican commandos while he was sleeping in the Miramar condominium in the beach town of Mazatlan. The arrest came after a series of military operations, which relied heavily on intelligence gathered by U.S. law enforcement officials, that led to houses with their own elaborate tunnel network in the Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa that Guzman had used to evade capture for years.
'El Chapo' had extensive connections inside the Mexican and United States Government. In fact, the Sinaloa Cartel was armed with 'assault weapons' by the Obama administration in Operation Fast and Furious. More from WaPo
The escape promises to be a major irritant in the relations between the U.S. and Mexican governments. American officials had pressed for Guzman’s extradition so that he could be prosecuted for drug crimes and held in the type of facility where he would be more secure. But Mexican officials took it as a point of pride and national sovereignty that they could hold even drug traffickers as powerful as Guzman in prison.
(Video: of Barack Obama's 3 Pinocchio LIEthat Operation Fast and Furious wasn't HIS program.
The Obama administration tried to cover-up Operation Fast and Furious using every trick in the book.
After three robberies in less than a month at Jitterz
Java, employees say they're refusing to be victimized anymore and are
preparing to pack heat on the job.
Jitterz Java owner Sara Chapel
is encouraging her staff members not only to bring their guns, but she's
keeping one in the stand just in case
Order a drink and you may find yourself looking at Krystal Cogswell's
.38 Special Lavender Lady secured to her hip. She's one of the half
dozen employees arming themselves in case of another robbery.
As far as the legality of it is concerned, Spokane Police said it is
completely legal as long as the employees who are armed are 18 and older
and do not have any prior convictions that restrict them from using
firearms.
