Secret Service bans guns at Republican Party's July convention in Cleveland
The Secret Service will not allow people to carry guns into the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, quashing the hopes of more than 45,000 people who have signed a petition saying attendees should be allowed to bring firearms. The Secret Service said Monday ...
The U.S. gun industry is trying to shake off the Hollywood hit-man image of the gun silencer and re-brand it as a hearing-protection device in a campaign to roll back regulations that date to the 1930s. Industry lobbying has led to more than a dozen ...
Japan court grants retrial to convicted Russian following 'unfair' undercover probe
It acknowledged the man was convicted because of an "illegal undercover investigation" by local police.
The Chiba Lotte Marines on Monday announced they have handed a playing suspension to Yamaico Navarro and fined the infielder ¥500,000 ($4,428) following his recent arrest on suspicion of concealing a bullet in his bag in breach of Japan's firearm law. The 28-year-old Dominican, who ...
Kansas mass shooter got court order over domestic violence just before rampage
The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas lawn-mower factory where he worked was served 90 minutes before his shooting spree with a court order to stay away from a woman who said he had abused her, authorities said on Friday. The suspect, ...
Revamp of vacant, auctioned Sendai home turns up guns, ammo, grenade
Home renovators found firearms, ammunition as well as a hand grenade Thursday in a house in Sendai that was recently bought by a real estate firm. Investigators said there were at least two guns, about 170 bullets and one hand grenade in the vacant house. ...
Obama, other advocates of gun control own stock in firearms makers through mutual funds
U.S. President Barack Obama, a fierce advocate for gun regulation, is an unlikely investor in the firearms industry — yet he has money in a pension fund that holds stock in gun and ammunition companies. Although Obama's stake is minuscule, worth no more than $30, ...
The remote, northern Canadian community where a shooter killed four people and injured seven on Friday has long struggled under the weight of poverty, high suicide rates and disadvantages that most of the country can hardly imagine. The isolated town of La Loche, in the ...
Policeman shot in Yokosuka after responding to domestic dispute
A policeman was shot and seriously wounded by a man who grabbed his gun during a scuffle that erupted after the officer was called to deal with a domestic dispute in Yokosuka on Thursday, police said. The alleged offender, 37, was arrested at the scene ...
A gunman claiming to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants shot and seriously wounded a Philadelphia police officer in an ambush on his patrol car, the city's police commissioner said on Friday. Edward Archer of Philadelphia approached Officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, shortly before midnight ...
Obama's move to control gun sales turns on a murky definition of who is a dealer
What makes a gun dealer? With executive actions this week, President Barack Obama plunged into the murky endeavor of defining who is in the business of selling firearms under the law. What resulted was guidance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — titled ...
Neighbor of San Bernardino gunman indicted on terrorism charge
A former neighbor accused of supplying assault rifles to the couple who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, was indicted Wednesday on charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The indictment accuses Enrique Marquez, 24, with conspiring with San Bernardio gunman Syed ...
