Bank customer fires at robber, AL.com, Huntsville, Ala. 09/19/16 – A man entered a Wells Fargo bank in Homewood, Ala. with something wrapped around his arm to give the impression that he was armed, and attempted to rob the bank. In addition to threatening bank staff, the robber pointed his arm at others inside the bank and made them get into a corner. Bank customer Eric Dial responded to the robber’s threats by drawing a gun and firing at the thief, but missing. The robber attempted to flee but was met by police just as he left the bank. Following the incident, a local media outlet interviewed Dial, who said “I just feel like I was able to save somebody’s life and mine, and I hope I don’t ever have to experience that again,” adding, “I’m glad nobody got hurt.”
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| The off-duty police officer who confronted and fatally shot the man suspected of stabbing nine people in a St. Cloud mall was roundly praised for split-second heroics that likely saved others from harm. |
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| Gun rights advocates have a new hero.Jason Falconer, a part-time police officer who killed an attacker wielding a knife Saturday at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minn., earned high praise from local officials as well as his own trending hashtag on Twitter. |
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| One of California’s marquee tech moguls is dropping big money into two California ballot measures. Sean Parker, the billionaire founder of Napster and first president of Facebook, has contributed $400,000 to Proposition 63, a gun-control measure, and $3.8 million to support Proposition 64, which would legalize recreational marijuana. |
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| Fairfax, Va.— The National Rifle Association launched a new TV ad buy this week in the 2016 presidential race. The $5 million buy is the NRA’s fourth and largest ad buy of the presidential election cycle, and underscores what’s at stake for the Second Amendment if Hillary Clinton is elected president. The spot, “Nightstand,” airs on national cable as well as regional broadcast in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia. |
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| Nobody does hysteria better than The New York Times, and over the years the editorial page of the old gray lady has fulminated most over the Second Amendment. The very idea of guns frightens the old gray lady beyond her feminist endurance. Last year the newspaper published a front-page editorial, a newspaper tradition usually reserved for a really, really important issue of the day, repeating a frequent demand for the severest restrictions on gun ownership. On another occasion the newspaper printed a call for establishing a secret court with the authority to put citizens on a “No Buy” list, similar to the “No Fly” list that bars passengers from airline flights on the whim of a low-level government bureaucrat without even evidence of connections to terrorists and terrorism. No guns for the law-abiding, either. |
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| The Baltimore City Council is considering a citywide ban on toy guns that are made to look like pistols, machine guns and rifles — and have been linked to shootings in Baltimore and cities across the country. |
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| The Palm Springs City Council will take a final vote on a controversial firearms ordinance Wednesday, finalizing an issue that has divided the council and drawn passionate support and opposition from residents of Palm Springs and other valley cities. |
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| NRA certified instructor, USPSA Competitor, 3-gun shooter and part time police officer shot and killed a violent man who went on a stabbing rampage Saturday. |
