Guns

An Indiana father is facing charges after a young child was seen playing with a gun on a live TV program Saturday night.

Police in Beech Grove told WTHR that 45-year-old Shane Osborne was arrested after surveillance video caught his child, a toddler, playing with a loaded 9mm pistol.

According to a report from NBC Connecticut, one of the attorneys for Infowars founder Alex Jones has his law license suspended for six months for what a judge called a lack of "fundamental fairness and decency," while defending his controversial client.

At issue, as attorney Norm Pattis plans to appeal the ruling, was his public release of private files related to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 that left 26 dead as well as their attacker.

An employee of a Georgia tire shop was shot to death over the weekend after a customer mistook him for a car thief.

WSB-TV reported that DeKalb County Police had arrested Quadarius McDowell, 30, on murder charges.

With only three days remaining in 2022, the Gun Violence Archive has counted 6,054 gun-related injuries and deaths among U.S. children aged 17 and younger this year so far. The count includes gun assault deaths, suicide deaths by firearm, deaths due to accidental firearm discharge, legal intervention leading to firearm death, and firearm deaths from undetermined causes.

As of Wednesday, 307 children under age 12 were killed by guns and 670 were injured nationwide this year. Among children ages 12-17, 1,331 were killed and 3,734 were injured this year.

Police are at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library on the San Jose State University Campus after an armed woman ran into the bathroom and barricaded herself inside.

The campus students have already left for the holidays, but some members of the staff are still there, so a lockdown has been initiated, reported KTUV News. The library has been evacuated.

Club Q shooting survivor Michael Anderson appeared before the House Reform and Oversight Committee to shame the lawmakers that continue to allow weapons of war to circulate throughout the U.S. nearly unregulated. Meanwhile, Republicans are promoting anti-LGBTQ hate.

Like many LGBTQ people, he grew up in a religious world where conservative voices told him he was wrong and something to reject. Places like gay bars and clubs helped him embrace his identity without the self-hate promoted by religious institutions and conservative voices.

Henry Wallace was shot and killed over the weekend after an elderly neighbor was enraged over Wallace leaving the door open to the shared laundry room. While standing at his mailbox, Hugh Hootman demanded Wallace apologize, said WPBF News.

According to what Hootman told the police, it was only when Wallace tried to push past Hootman that he said, "I lost my temper," pulled out a gun, and shot him several times.

Former Discovery host Richard Wyatt told a crowd of people assembled outside the Colorado Republican Party headquarters on Wednesday that they needed to be "carrying a gun."

Wyatt, who was convicted of 10 felonies related to conspiracy and tax evasion, spoke at a rally to replace state chair Kristi Burton Brown following a poor performance in the midterm elections.

A Virginia law enforcement worker was killed in a shootout with California deputies after he allegedly murdered the mother and grandparents of a teenage girl he manipulated online.

Police in Riverside were called Friday morning to check on a girl who appeared to be distressed while getting into a car with a man, and they started receiving reports of a structure fire nearby when responding to the first call, and firefighters found the bodies of three adults inside the burning house, reported NBC News.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the incoming House Oversight chair, said on Sunday that he backed new laws to prevent fentanyl deaths but not gun violence.

During an interview on Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Comer what the new Republican-controlled House would do to prevent mass shootings like the recent killings at a Virginia Walmart.

Authorities responded to a Saturday night shooting in Atlanta.

"So far, police have said five victims were shot, in addition to the man who lost his life on the scene," Fox 5 Atlanta reported. "They have not identified any of the suspects or victims yet, but said this was a result of a dispute between teenagers and young adults that ended with gun violence."

Firearms are frequently becoming part of political life as Republicans loosen restrictions on carrying guns in public.

"Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s," The New York Times reported Saturday. "But the effects of more guns in public spaces have not been evenly felt. A partisan divide — with Democrats largely eschewing firearms and Republicans embracing them — has warped civic discourse. Deploying the Second Amendment in service of the First has become a way to buttress a policy argument, a sort of silent, if intimidating, bullhorn."

The 1776 American revolution will be celebrated by a new AR-15 schedule to be released on Black Friday.

In a video posted to social media by Brownells, Inc., a man in a blue colonial-era jacket walks along a path carrying a cardboard box.