Waffle House mass shooting: What we know about the suspect (VIDEO)
ABC NEWS April 22, 2018 – He tried to meet the president by hopping a barrier at the White House and was convinced that Taylor Swift was stalking him. Both incidents landed Travis Reinking on the radar of authorities ranging from local Illinois cops to Secret Service agents. The latter helped authorities strip Reinking of his guns last year. Yet, a half-naked Reinking — armed with one of the seized rifles — allegedly…
TN – Gun Crime – Hero customer rushes Waffle House killer and rips away his assault-style rifle (VIDEO)
CNN April 22, 2018 – As soon as gunshots tore through a Waffle House, James Shaw Jr. bolted and hid in a restroom. But he kept an eye and an ear out for the gunman. And the moment the shooter paused, Shaw decided to ambush him. That heroic act by a customer saved countless lives at a Nashville-area Waffle House, where a seminude gunman killed four people early Sunday morning….
VA – Gun Crime – Arrests made in gun trafficking scheme linked to local gun stores (VIDEO)
WTVR.COM April 16, 2018 – The ATF was tipped off recently to a scheme which involved trafficking guns from Richmond to the black market in New York. The bureau made a couple of arrests. Crime Insider sources tell Jon Burkett that Toddai Deveaux would travel to Central Virginia from Connecticut and hook up with people that would buy guns for him at Green Top and Colonial Shooting Academy.
Nat’l – Tweetle Dumb and Tweetle Dee – FAIL: NPR’s hot take about guns and ‘the average person’ is SO scorching it spontaneously combusts
TWITCHY.COM April 16, 2018 – Another day, another “here’s why guns don’t make you safer” hot take, this time courtesy of NPR: “The average person … has basically no chance in their lifetime ever to use a gun in self-defense,” one researcher concluded after analyzing figures from the National Crime Victimization Survey. https://n.pr/2HBlTku
TN – Gun Crime – FBI: Gun owners in ‘source state’ of TN unwittingly supply California felon in gun trafficking plot (VIDEOS)
KNOX NEWS.COM April 10, 2018 – Using Facebook, a website for private gun sellers, a handful of helpers in Lenoir City and Tennessee’s liberal gun laws, a felon smuggled guns and ammunition into California and into the hands of criminals, court records allege. Rafael “Ralphie” Sanchez Jr., 38, a felon and accused drug trafficker from Kettleman City, California, is charged in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District…
WI – Gun Crime – Wisconsin man with guns, bombs, white supremacist literature blows self up (VIDEO)
CITY PAGES.COM April 10, 2018 – Last month, an explosion in a Beaver Dam, Wisconsin apartment building killed a 28-year-old resident named Benjamin Morrow. A recently unsealed search warrant revealed Morrow’s apartment contained “white supremacist literature,” plus guns, thousands of bullets, and a “homemade explosives laboratory.” So far, the only person suspected of any potentially criminal behavior is dead by his own hand.
AS SOON AS GUNSHOTS TORE THROUGH A WAFFLE HOUSE, JAMES SHAW JR. BOLTED AND HID IN A RESTROOM. BUT HE KEPT AN EYE AND AN EAR OUT FOR THE GUNMAN. AND THE MOMENT THE SHOOTER PAUSED, SHAW DECIDED TO AMBUSH HIM. SHAW SAW THE GUNMAN LOOKING AT HIS RIFLE TO RELOAD. THAT’S WHEN HE GRABBED THE SHOOTER’S RIFLE POSSIBLY SAVING COUNTLESS LIVES EARLY YESTERDAY.STUDENTS ON THE STREETS PROTESTING SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AND BULLYING ISSUES AND PROPOSING THE BANNING OF GUNS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS GOES BOTH WAYS AND THE SITUATION DID NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT, SAYS WRITER WHO ADDS THAT STUDENTS AND PARENTS ‘NEED TO TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THEMSELVES’ BEFORE BANNING GUNS.OUTDOOR SPORTS COMPANY YETI HAS BECOME THE LATEST BUSINESS TO CUT TIES WITH THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION (NRA), PART OF A WAVE OF COMPANIES ENDING BUSINESS DEALS WITH THE PRO-GUN GROUP FOLLOWING THE PARKLAND, FLA., SCHOOL SHOOTING. THE NRA REPORTEDLY SENT AN EMAIL TO ITS MEMBERS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, BLASTING THE COMPANY FOR NOT BEING “SPORTSMANLIKE.”AS PART OF THEIR NON-STOP EFFORT AT IMPOSING STRICT GUN CONTROL UPON THE AMERICAN POPULATION, ANTI-GUN ADVOCATES HAVE LAUNCHED A POLITICAL PRESSURE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CORPORATIONS IN ADDITION TO THEIR TYPICAL LEGISLATIVE TRACK TOWARD UNDERMINING THE SECOND AMENDMENT. THAT EFFORT HAS SUCCEEDED IN COMPELLING A NUMBER OF COMPANIES TO CUT TIES WITH THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AND EVEN LED TO TWO MAJOR BANKS ANNOUNCING SIGNIFICANT LENDING POLICY CHANGES TOWARD THE FIREARMS INDUSTRY.IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR FAMED-STUDENT EMMA GONZALEZ, FROM MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL, TO USE SUNDAY’S MASSACRE AT A TENNESSEE WAFFLE HOUSE TO BLAST THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AND GUNS WHILE ADVOCATING FOR MORE GUN CONTROL. BUT HER STATEMENT DIDN’T HOLD UP TO FACTS — AND SHE WAS CALLED OUT FOR IT.