SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) – Summerville police say that a man shot a drunk trespasser who came into the backyard behind his mother’s house early Wednesday morning. Charges are pending against the alleged trespasser 27-year-old Robert Wade Akins. Police arrived at the house on East 3rd South Street for a shots fired call at 12:13 a.m….
A slew of Texas firearm laws will go into effect next month, loosening restrictions on where people are allowed to carry and store guns. The new laws will go in place weeks after a gunman killed 22 people in a Walmart in El Paso, according to CNN. The suspected shooter, Patrick Crusius, picked the target area because…
NEEDLES — It’s now officially declared a Second Amendment Sanctuary City, but don’t presume to carry a firearm with impunity on the streets of Needles regardless of recognition by the states of Arizona or Nevada to a constitutional right to do so, or issuance of a permit by any jurisdiction other than California. Needles City…
SEATTLE, Wash. (KOIN) — The controversial new gun reform bill recently passed in Washington state may have a loophole. Initiative 1639 requires secure gun storage and enhanced background checks. It also bars anyone under the age of 21 from buying a semi-automatic rifle. But what exactly a semi-automatic rifle is is another matter. Tiffany Teasdale works at…
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…
In early December, NRA-ILA alerted gun owners to an ongoing dispute between the administration of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the state courts. The governor’s office had advised that it would refuse to comply with lawful court orders to reinstate some Massachusetts residents’ Firearms Identification Cards. Early this week, the Boston Globe reported that the Governor’s office…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A handful of rural counties in New Mexico are passing resolutions saying they will not require their sheriffs to enforce a sweeping slate of gun-control proposals that have gone before state lawmakers. The “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” resolutions are being presented by sheriffs to commissioners in dozens of counties, according to the head…
PIERRE — Legislation allowing people to carry concealed handguns without a permit, sometimes called “Constitutional carry,” is headed to the South Dakota Senate floor for a vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 47 in a 4-3 vote on Thursday morning after spending more than an hour hearing testimony and discussing the issue. The concealed carry bill is…
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment protects the right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, rejecting a claim by Hawaii officials that the right only applies to guns kept at home. The ruling by a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court…
With lower courts split on the issue, the Florida Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up a question about whether a 2017 change to the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law should apply to older cases. The controversial 2017 change shifted a key burden of proof in “stand your ground” cases — a shift…
