The way we’ve thought about gun violence has made the politics of progress nearly impossible. The even bigger problem is we’ve been thinking about gun violence all wrong.
Each launcher had a legal 37mm barrel, which were not attached. Each of these launchers, according to ATF rules, is exempt from being classified as a destructive device as long as their owner had no anti-personnel ammunition. The owner had none.
Leading outlets have referred to a mass-shooting “epidemic,” particularly when covering the kind of massacres that rock the nation. The truth is these events are exceedingly rare.
Jaquan Bridges, who pleaded guilty to the offense after a 2023 shootout with police, was arrested with a Glock .40 caliber pistol with an attachment that converted the handgun into a machine gun, but fought to dismiss the charge on constitutional grounds.
The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman’s anti-GOP motives despite having handwritten evidence, a
This defensive gun use, which, from the very brief description in the report, sounds justified, presents a number of issues given Illinois’ overbearing gun laws.
The ATF, federal prosecutors, and what’s left of Joe Biden’s supporters in the fedgov still want you to believe that their case against Patrick “Tate” Adamiak is complex and confusing, involving arcane weapon systems and rare gun parts that only a firearm expert can fully understand.
Discussing the current incident with the Sun Times, Wintemute acknowledged his earlier findings, telling the paper, “When somebody asks me should we do a buyback, my response is that it depends on what you’re hoping to accomplish… If you think it will reduce rates of crime, go back to the drawing board.”
Perhaps the biggest factor that demonstrated that Adamiak’s RPGs were not weapons but training aids were massive holes drilled in the high-pressure area of the tubes – right where an operator’s face would be when firing them.
Ironically, although the dropped federal NFA charge had required the government to argue the braced CZ Scorpion was a rifle, the charge Taranto is still facing under D.C. law required it to argue the same firearm is a handgun.
