After attempted robbery over the weekend, police stress self-defense – Officer John Kerrigan teaches self-defense classes for the Midland Police Department and said there are three things he tells his students whenever a situation arises because the main point is staying alive. “There’s so many people playing video games and you kill somebody and it’s no big deal, you just reset. Well in real life you don’t get the reset button,” said Kerrigan.
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| The court may also expand the rights of gun owners beyond its rulings in 2008 and 2010. One judge that Trump has put forward, Diane Sykes, has already issued a decision in favor of gun owners. |
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| Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill into law that expands the list of firearms permitted for hunting in Pennsylvania to include semi-automatic rifles and handguns. |
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| Groups that wanted expanded gun background checks in Minnesota thought they were on the verge of making it happen. They spent loads of money and time in select House races in search of a Democratic majority to get them over the top. But in the election, they fell considerably short there and went backwards in the Senate. |
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| People traveling through the Jacksonville International Airport and other airports this holiday season can bring their pies in carry-on bags, but need to leave their firearms, knives, brass knuckles and grenades behind.The Transportation Security Administration and airport officials unveiled an upgraded system to scan checked baggage on Tuesday. They also reminded people to leave their weapons behind. |
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| A New Orleans man has taken aim at a city ordinance that forbids the possession and sale of stun guns, claiming the little-known ban violates his Second Amendment right to self-defense. |
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| A number of senior Nationals MPs have staged a revolt in the Parliament over the importation of the Adler shotgun, with two backbench senators crossing the floor and four others, including three cabinet ministers, abstaining from a vote to lift the ban on the firearm. |
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| Nigel Early was in danger of going to prison because Britain’s strict gun laws mean that anyone found with a banned weapon is liable to an automatic jail term unless there are exceptional circumstances.The 58-year-old businessman, who runs the Bulldog Fish Farm near Barnstaple, was found with a Colt .25 pistol which fell foul of the law because it had a barrel of less than 60 millimetres. |
