Fourth Circuit Upholds Maryland’s Ban on ‘Rapid Fire Trigger’ Devices
The Fourth Circuit Monday upheld a Maryland law banning bump stocks and other gun attachments that speed up the firing rate of semiautomatic weapons.
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El Paso Shooting Suspect Faces New Murder, Hate Crime Charges
The Texas man accused of killing 23 people and injuring 23 more at an El Paso Walmart last August was re-indicted on Thursday by a grand jury that added new murder and hate crime charges to the state’s case against the gunman.
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Audit Finds Most American Public Schools Need Major Repairs
The majority of public school districts in the U.S. are focusing their budgets on security to prevent shootings instead of widely needed building repairs, a federal watchdog found in a new report.
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News Outlets Fight for Access to Ohio Shooter’s School Records
The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether the school records of the deceased Dayton gunman who killed nine people last year should be made available to the public and press.
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An appeals court in Florida upheld the dismissal of a civil suit against a mental health facility that provided mental health services to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz between 2009 and 2016. The facility did not owe a legal duty to protect or warn students that attended the same school as one of its patients.
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A former student who was shot six times at Santa Fe High School in Texas by a classmate who killed 10 and wounded 13 sued Luckygunner.com, of Tennessee, et al., claiming it sold the shooter guns and ammo online though he was not old enough to buy them legally, in federal court.
Read more10th Circuit Upholds Trump Administration’s Bump-Stock Ban
A 10th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the federal government’s ban on bump stock accessories for guns, striking down a Salt Lake City resident’s challenge to the federal ban on the device that allows semiautomatic guns to fire ammunition at the same speed as automatic weapons.
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Former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel cannot pursue his due process claims against Governor Ron DeSantis or Florida’s Senate President Bill Galvano, a federal court in the state ruled. Israel was suspended on grounds of “neglect of duty and incompetence” in connection with two mass shootings: the 2017 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shooting and the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau Orders Ban on Assault Weapons
Canada will ban assault rifles in the aftermath of one of the country’s deadliest rampages, in which a gunman killed 22 people over two days in Nova Scotia last month.
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Canadian Massacre Triggered by Domestic Dispute
Canada’s worst mass killing started as a domestic dispute between the gunman and his girlfriend, who survived the attack, a police official said late Thursday.
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Death Toll From Canadian Rampage Rises to 22
Canadian police said Tuesday they believe there are at least 22 victims of a gunman wearing a police uniform who shot people in their homes and set fires in a rampage across rural communities in Nova Scotia over the weekend.
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A man wearing a police uniform went on a shooting rampage in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Sunday, killing 13 people, in the deadliest such attack in the country in 30 years. Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead.
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An appeals court in Florida upheld the denial of a man’s motion to dismiss charges brought against him after he posted a photo of himself on Snapchat with the caption, “On my way! School shooter.” The question of whether the posting was a threat under the relevant statute must be decided by a jury, the court ruled.
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Gun Makers Must Face Wrongful-Death Claims Over Las Vegas Shooting
A federal judge has found makers of assault rifles used by a gunman to indiscriminately shoot at concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Musical Festival in Las Vegas in 2017 must face a wrongful death claim by the family of one of the 58 people killed.
Read morePulse Nightclub Shooting Survivors Can’t Sue Security Company
The security company that employed and trained the Pulse nightclub shooter cannot be held liable for his actions, a Florida appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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A trial court properly refused to dismiss defamation claims against Infowars owner Alex Jones and one of its reporters brought by the father of a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting, an appeals court in Texas ruled. The claims relate to Infowars broadcasts that challenged the father’s accounts of holding his deceased son in his arms.
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German Police Raid Neo-Nazi Group Nationwide
German police on Thursday raided sites across the country linked to a far-right group banned by the interior ministry, weeks after an extremist gunman shot dead nine people of immigrant backgrounds.
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Colorado Justices Hear Debate on Liability in Planned Parenthood Clinic Shooting
Should a Colorado health clinic have beefed up security in anticipation of an attack at a facility that provides abortions? Seven Colorado Supreme Court justices will decide whether a jury should hear the case.
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A Colorado district attorney said Thursday his office will not seek the death penalty against one of the two suspects in a deadly shooting at a STEM school in 2019.
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Airbnb Sued Over Deadly Halloween Shooting at Rental House
The family of a man shot dead during a Halloween party at a Bay Area rental house sued Airbnb Monday claiming the vacation rental company should have known that large crowds, underage drinking and illegal activities frequently occurred there.
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