Guns

The gunman who allegedly killed 10 people in a Colorado grocery store purchased his weapon less than a week before the massacre.

Authorities said shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa bought the AR-15 rifle used in the Boulder killings just six days earlier, reported the Associated Press.

The Veterans Home of California in the town of Yountville is on lockdown after a woman armed with a gun was reported to be inside the facility.

As of now, police have not been able to confirm if any shots were fired. ABC30 reports that a shelter-in-place has been ordered for the town and people are being asked to stay away from the area. A local has not admitted any patients regarding the incident, according to the report.

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke out after the mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado that left 10 people dead.

"Michelle and I grieve with the families of the victims of the shooting in Boulder, just as we grieve with the families of the people killed in Atlanta and everyone else who has lost a loved one to gun violence," the former president said in a statement. "Because in addition to grief, we are also feeling a deep, familiar outrage that we as a nation continue to tolerate these kinds of random, senseless acts day in and day out without taking any significant action—an outrage that people in Colorado have known far too often over the years."

Pro-QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday attacked gun safety laws as ineffective in the wake of the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado that left 10 people dead.

"Colorado has everything the left has asked for," Greene wrote on Twitter. "And it still didn't stop a thug like Ahmad Al-Issa from murdering Americans."

Local police have identified the ten people killed in the shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, this Monday.

According to the Boulder Police Department, the victims are: Denny Stong, 20, Neven Stanisic, 23, Rikki Olds, 25, Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, Suzanne Fountain, 59, Teri Leiker, 51, Eric Talley, 51, Kevin Mahoney, 61, Lynn Murray, 62, and Jody Waters, 65.

Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Tuesday completely ignored a mass shooting in Colorado and instead asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) about Vice President Kamala Harris's laugh.

Just minutes after officials in Boulder named the 10 victims of Monday's mass shooting, Harris began her Faulkner Focus program by interviewing Cruz about the border.

A Colorado man who shot and killed 10 people at a Boulder grocery store was a deeply disturbed individual, according to his older brother.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder in the King Soopers massacre, and his brother described him as "very anti-social" and paranoid, reported The Daily Beast.

Just one week before the mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket, the Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA) publicly praised a court ruling striking down a gun control ordinance passed by Boulder city council, Newsweek reports.

In a March 17 post to Twitter, CSSA, which is the official state association of the National Rifle Association in Colorado, praised a "legal win" over the City of Boulder.

On Tuesday, Newsweek reported that the QAnon movement is already spreading wild conspiracy theories that the mass shooting at King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado was a "false flag" operation.

"Rather than express empathy for the victims of the attack, supporters of QAnon ... instead declared that the media reports and statements from the police were all false and that there is no way yet another mass shooting could have occurred in the U.S.," reported Ewan Palmer. "'No question Boulder, Co incident today was a false flag. The only question is by which side?,' one QAnon profile, who has more than 260,000 subscribers on Telegram, wrote. 'False flag means it's fake. Nobody actually died. Was this false flag to try and take your guns or scare the s**t out of you?'"

Shocking videos posted online purport to show the aftermath of a shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

"The Boulder Police Department is warning people to stay away from the King Soopers store at 3600 Table Mesa Drive because of an active shooter at the store," The Denver Post reported Monday. "The King Soopers store anchors a large shopping center in the southern part of Boulder, a few blocks from Fairview High School. The Boulder Valley School District is on spring break this week. District spokeswoman Randy Barber said to his knowledge no students or staff were in any of the buildings near the King Soopers on Monday."

After a gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle killed 10 people in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado on Monday, the second mass shooting in the United States in less than a week, calls rang out for Democrats to use their slim majority in Congress to finally eliminate the legislative filibuster and pass substantial gun safety laws over foreseeable GOP obstruction.

"We're absolutely heartbroken for everyone who has been impacted," progressive advocacy group Indivisible said in the wake of the massacre. "You're going to see another round of 'we can't do anything yet, there was a tragedy' hand-wringing, but we must end gun violence now. Let's eliminate the filibuster and pass real gun violence prevention legislation."

According to a report from Forbes, Asian-Americans are flooding gun shops in search of personal protection as hate crimes against their community explodes.

The report comes during the week when an Atlanta man went on a killing spree shooting eight people -- six of them women of Asian descent.

According to Jimmy Gong, the owner of Jimmy's Sport Shop in Mineola, New York, gun sales went up during the coronavirus pandemic, but sales to Asian-Americans have undergone a dramatic increase.

"There are more Asians being introduced to firearms. Before, there was never gun culture in the Asian community. But after the pandemic and all the hate crime going on, there are more Asians buying guns to defend themselves," he explained adding that half his sales lately is to Asian-Americans and that pepper spray sales have boomed too.

Danielle Jaymes, general manager of Poway Weapons & Gear in Poway, California, said she has noticed "a 20% increase in Asian-American first-time customers to her store over the last year" with many claiming they are buying for self-defense reasons.

According to Tim Hensley, general manager of Towers Armory in Ohio, "They're feeling a lot more unsafe in their environment and I think it's more dramatic for them now, especially with what just happened," before adding, "They're trying to get proficient, which is telling me that there is an urgency."

According to Forbes, "Hate crimes against Asian-Americans surged 149% in 2020, while overall hate crimes fell 7%, according to a study based on police statistics by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. The researchers found that hate crimes spiked in March and April 2020 'amidst a rise in Covid cases and negative stereotyping of Asians relating to the pandemic.'" adding, "During the anti-Asian hate crime spree, Asian-Americans have become a more familiar sight in gun shops, as they mingle among the millions of Americans who are buying guns for the first time."