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'I'll shoot you where you stand’: Arizona racist threatens restaurant worker for getting order wrong

An Arizona man who shouted racial epithets and menaced the manager of a Filiberto's restaurant with a firearm was arrested last week and charged with aggravated assault.

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Georgia officer killed, second wounded in shooting near university

A young Georgia police officer was shot and killed and a second critically injured while responding to a report of a domestic dispute on Wednesday near a university campus in the southwestern part of the state, officials said.

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Prosecutors quietly drop charges against white firefighter who threatened black couple with a gun

Charges were abruptly dropped against a Savannah, Georgia, firefighter accused of threatening a black couple at gunpoint and telling them his badge entitled him to kill them with impunity.

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Sandy Hook 'truther' arrested for making death threats against father of slain boy

A Florida woman who believes that the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was an event staged by the government has been indicted for making threats against the father of one of the children killed in the massacre.

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Dylann Roof attorney concedes to jury: The murder case against him is 'open and shut'

The lead attorney for Dylann Roof on Wednesday admitted to a jury in Charleston, S.C. that the murder case against his client was "open and shut."

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Man who took assault rifle into DC restaurant has history of drug, alcohol charges

Man who took assault rifle into DC restaurant has history of drug, alcohol charges

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An armed Salisbury man who caused a panic in Washington, D.C., for trying to "self-investigate" a conspiracy involving Hillary Clinton has an arrest record for drug and alcohol offenses. Washington police said Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, walked into the front door of the Comet Ping Pong restaurant Sunday and pointed an assault rifle…

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'This is our historic moment': NRA expects Trump to ban gun-free school zones in name of 'freedom'

Donald Trump hasn't taken the oath of office yet, but the National Rifle Association is already celebrating the future repeal of gun-free school zones and an end to expanded background checks.

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Accused South Carolina church shooter defended by attorneys again

Accused white supremacist Dylann Roof got his attorneys back on Monday, after changing his mind about representing himself in the "guilt" phase of his federal trial for the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year.

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Fake news, real bullets: Suspect with rifle arrested at DC restaurant named in 'Pizzagate' story

Police arrested a gunman armed with an assault weapon at a Washington, D.C. restaurant named in a fake pro-Trump news story that spread online.

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White man who shot and killed Joe McKnight was involved in road rage incident at same location a decade ago

The man accused of shooting and killing former NFL star Joe McKnight in a road rage incident was involved in a similar altercation at the same location over a decade ago, reports NOLA.

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Connecticut's top court to hear Sandy Hook gun appeal

The Connecticut Supreme Court has agreed to hear a direct appeal by families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, whose lawsuit against makers and sellers of the assault rifle used in the 2012 attack was dismissed in October.

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'This is our country': Man arrested after telling clerk he will 'shoot all Spanish-speaking people'

A New York man who threatened to "shoot all Spanish-speaking people" at a grocery store is facing weapons charges, according to The Journal News.

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Connecticut man shoots and kills worker to create job opening on construction crew

A 34-year-old man in Bridgeport, Connecticut shot and killed a construction worker because he wanted to create a job opening on the work site, according to witnesses.

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