CHICAGO (CBS)–An overnight attempted carjacking and fatal shooting in the South Loop snarled traffic in downtown Chicago Friday, as investigators cleared the scene. A 22-year-old man was fatally shot by a 41-year-old driver of a BMW the younger man tried to carjack around 3:15 a.m. in the first block of Ida B. Wells Drive, police…
Authorities have identified a 19-year-old man who was shot to death early Tuesday when he attempted to rob a concealed-carry permit holder in Fernwood. Laavion Goings had been released from Cook County Jail two months earlier after pleading guilty to a drug charge and was on probation at the time of the robbery, according to…
A woman opened fire at a person who tried to rob her Saturday evening in the South Side Hyde Park neighborhood. A male attempted to rob the woman about 6:20 p.m. in the 1400 block of East 56th Street, but she fired shots at him, Chicago police said. The woman had a concealed-carry license and was…
A concealed-carry permit holder shot a man who authorities said was trying to rob him Thursday afternoon in north suburban Waukegan. The 30-year-old Gurnee man told police he used the Letgo app to set up a meeting with 20-year-old Lawrence Dye, ostensibly to sell something to Dye, according to a statement from Waukegan police. When…
A settlement agreement and related litigation between Ohio State University and gun-rights advocates has resulted in a change in the university’s policies to allow students with concealed carry permits to store firearms in their vehicles on campus. A lawsuit filed more than two years ago by two gun-rights groups and Mike Newbern, an OSU Marion…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate who had escaped minutes earlier from a county jail in South Carolina was shot and killed by a woman after he kicked in her back door, the local sheriff said. The inmate was still in his orange jail jumpsuit and had grabbed a knife sharpening tool from the woman’s…
For most people, a NICS check is instantaneous or at least expedient. Other people are subject to a delay, which is best explained by the FBI itself: “When a NICS background check matches a record to the prospective firearms transferee, the NICS Section determines if a federal prohibitor exists. However, if a federal prohibitor does…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will take up legislation next week that would require universal background checks for gun buyers, the panel’s Democratic chairman said on Thursday. The panel will mark up the bill, known as the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, on Feb. 13 and send it to the House…
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A local sheriff is calling a bystander with a carry permit a hero after a domestic-related shooting at a dentist office in Tennessee. The shooting was reported Wednesday morning at David Guy Dentistry on Circle Drive, near Colonial Heights Road. Sullivan County Sheriff Jeff Cassidy said a gunman walked…
South Dakota has become the latest state to remove permit requirements for gun owners to carry and conceal their weapons. The state’s new Republican governor, Kristi Noem, signed SB 47 into law Thursday. The legislation permits residents to legally carry a firearm concealed on their person so long as they are allowed to possess one. The bill passed the state…
