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The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), Oregon State Shooting Association (OSSA) and Mazama Sporting Goods filed a lawsuit in the Oregon District Court Thursday contesting the recently passed Ballot Measure 114, considered one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country, according to…
Read More Another Lawsuit Filed Against Oregon Officials For Restrictive Gun Measure
Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana announced on Monday the launch of a new tip line where the public can submit library books that could contain content inappropriate for children. The “Protecting Minors” tip line opens a gateway for the public to submit books found in public…
Read More Louisiana Releases ‘Protecting Minors’ Tip Line To Report Explicit School Library Books
An Ohio man was sentenced today to eight years and one month in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, in connection with pipe bombs found on tugboats on the Ohio River. On April 19, 2022, a federal jury found Nathaniel Blayn…
Read More Ohio Man Sentenced To Prison For Placing Pipe Bombs On Tug Boats
A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to 44 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud. According to court documents, Sergio Soto Jr., 35, of San Antonio, operated two businesses, iPhone Buyerz and Phone Dropz, through which he claimed to…
Read More Texas Fraudster Sentenced To Prison
A Georgia man was sentenced to prison for threatening to kill the President of the United States and blow up the White House, following an investigation that included multiple death threats issued against local judges, law enforcement, and a threat letter containing a white powdery…
Read More Georgia Man Gets 33 Months In Prison After Threatening To Kill President Biden, Blow Up White House
Former Democratic Amite City, Louisiana, police chief Jerry Trabona and City Councilwoman Kristian “Kris” Hart were sentenced to one year in prison Wednesday for violating federal election laws after it was discovered that they were buying votes, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press…
Read More Elected Officials In Louisiana Sentenced In “Vote-Buying” Scheme
Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 25, of West Haven, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to court documents and statements made in court, beginning…
Read More Connecticut Man Admits To Attempting To Fight For ISIS In The Middle East
The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon challenging provisions of Ballot Measure 114, the restrictive gun control initiative passed Nov. 8 which bans standard capacity ammunition magazines among its tenets. Joining SAF in the legal action…
Read More SAF Files Federal Challenge To Oregon Measure 114
A manhunt is underway for a man accused of stabbing and bludgeoning an elderly couple to death in their Massachusetts home in an apparently targeted attack, according to police. Investigators say police were called to perform a welfare check on the married couple Tuesday night…
Read More Manhunt Underway In Massachusetts After Elderly Couple Stabbed, Bludgeoned To Death
CNBC anchor and financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin opened a Wednesday interview with Sam Bankman-Fried by reading him a letter from an alleged investor who asked the former crypto billionaire why he stole the investor’s life savings. “The subject line [of the letter] is ‘Sam…
Read More Disgraced Crypto FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Says “I’m Deeply Sorry About What Happened”