Chief Jeff Pearce says it happened around 7:20am at the Route 66 Coin Laundry on East 7th Street.
Chief Pearce tells Newstalk KZRG that the owner of the laundromat stopped the burglary in progress, but during a struggle with the suspect, was shot with his own gun.
He was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The suspect, who fled the scene, is being described as a 6-foot white male and was wearing a mask.
In the summer of 1991, Alan Yates was working in the forested mountains near Bozeman, Montana. He was charged by two black bears at the same time. He successfully defended himself against the bears with two shots fired from his .357 magnum Smith & Wesson 65 revolver. He was 21 years old.
Here are Alan's words, lightly edited for space and clarity:
In the summer of 1991 I worked on a logging operation in the mountains of Montana.
There was a large bear that lived in the hills and mountains around our community. He was very aggressive. His favorite mode of attack was to charge riders on their horses. Invariably, the rider would get thrown from the spooked horse, the horse would run off, and the bear would stand around for a minute or two thumping up and down on his front paws as if gloating. Then he'd run off.
There was no love for this bear. There was, quietly, a bounty on him. Because of his sheer size, and seeming youthful bad attitude, it was widely hypothesized that he was a Black Bear/Grizzly mix.
Seeing bears was a regular occurance and didn't bother me.
One morning in the early fall, I was trimming branches off the tops of cut down trees with a large knife that I had made. It was quiet work, and I was further up the mountain side than the other workers. Suddenly I heard an all-to-familiar sound ... "woof, woof, woof ... " quickly getting louder and closer. I knew what it meant. I dropped the knife, grabbed my 357 magnum, while spinning towards the sound.
Up the mountain ridge came a rolling ball of massive muscle and fur. He was medium brown in color, with a dark chocolate face and neck. I immediately recognized him from the descriptions I'd heard. He was the problem bear everyone hated.
I cocked my revolver and timed his head roll. When he was "close enough" (8 or 10 yards) and his head rolled up, I dropped the hammer. My custom hand loaded bullet hit him square in the chest and I saw the fur fly from the impact. He staggered slightly, turning about 30 degrees to his left and continued his charge up and over the next (nearby) ridge and out of sight.
I watched him go out of the corner of my eye, because when he turned off his direct path towards me, a new problem showed herself. Not 20 yards behind him was a 2nd bear. She was a beautiful black phase with a large white "V" on her chest. She was much smaller - probably a 4-5 year old bear. She continued her charge full steam at me.
I recocked my revolver and at the instant her head rose - on her next to last jump - I dropped the hammer again. I watched the bullet strike her 1" to the right if the bottom of the white V on her chest.
The bullet impact, combined with her upward lunge, flipped her completely over backwards and she landed on her back - her head downhill. She rolled over, jumped up and hobbled back down the ridge.
I spun around looking to see if the other bear was still a threat, but he was nowhere to be found. Then I ran down the mountain after her. I assumed that she wouldn't go far. I was wrong.
She went straight down the ridge a few hundred yards where she slid off the steep bank and onto the logging road - where the rest of our crew were working. She passed right thru the middle of them, over the bank and continued downhill. When I jumped down from the bank, I yelled "Did you see a bear?". They pointed and said "she's right there". We could see her intermittently. She turned down into the draw and headed up the next ridge in the open, crossing it at right angles. She was moving slowly.
I ran to camp, grabbed my rifle (my old 303 British), and gave chase. I tracked her along the side of the mountain, up, down, over and under, for the next 1.5 miles. I lost her trail when she entered a large "blow-down". I circled the entire blowdown searching for her track. I couldn't find it. (Lodge-pole pine blow-downs can kill you when the logs shift suddenly, so I knew better than to go in there).
Returning to camp, I updated everyone and we "loaded up" to go track down the big boar. We were not able to hold his trail for very long. After cresting the next ridge, he had slowed to a walk in dense timber and his track was soon lost.
I spent the next few weeks worried about the possibility of having 2 wounded bears near our camp. But no trouble came.
Soon enough, the snow flew, logging was shut down for the season, and I was free to go hunting. I quickly found myself hunting Elk on the same mountain. I had come in from a different direction. As I crested a ridge, I heard Magpies (a bird) calling from down in the draw below me. Magpies, in the mountains, generally mean something is dead. As I worked my way down the slope and began up the next, I discovered that I was back at the same blowdown where I'd lost bear's trail.
The Magpies were dancing and calling near the lower edge of the blowdown. I eased very carefully in the short distance, and there she was. She was quite decomposed, but she was all bear, and I could still see the large white V on her chest. I was thankful to find her dead.
The large aggressive boar was never seen again - so I assume him dead also.
I have no idea why those 2 bears charged me. The most likely theory is that the boar heard me and liked to charge. She was just tagging along.
Alan switched from a .357 magnum to a .44 magnum. He has hunted the high mountain country of Montana for 35 years.
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A 28-year-old man working as a garbage truck driver was outside in the 900-block of South Homan Avenue when two other men approached him, took out a gun and announced a robbery, police said.
Police said that's when an exchange of gunfire ensued between the suspects and the victim, who has a valid FOID card and CCL.
One of the suspects, 42, suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on the scene. The other suspect, 20, suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
The victim was uninjured but taken to St. Anthony Hospital in good condition for an evaluation.
The employee of the business who sustained the graze wound was identified as 24-year-old Tyree Freeman. He identified as the primary aggressor and was subsequently charged with battery and transported to the Fulton County Jail.
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Preliminary Information: On 1/29/25, around 7:30am, officers responded to an aggravated assault at the location of 2444 Piedmont Rd NE. Upon arrival, officers located both male parties involved. Preliminary investigation indicates the involved parties got into a physical dispute at the location. During the dispute, one of the males discharged a firearm resulting in one male’s being grazed. No life-threatening injuries were sustained during the incident. Officers have one male currently detained and are currently working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. The investigation continues.
Former and Future President Trump is now a convicted felon in the State of New York. The abuse of the judicial system by the prosecutor and judge are some of the worst seen by astute, leftist legal commentators, such as Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz goes so far as calling him "a convicted innocent man". He says there were 34 non-crimes President Trump was convicted of. At left of center Politifact, this question was raised: From politifact:
President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 10 felony sentencing raised questions on social media about his rights: Can he vote, travel internationally and own a gun?
Yes, likely, and no.
It is unlikely the guilty verdict in the outrageous anti-Trump lawfare case in New York will survive for long. When President Trump is sworn in to office, Presidential immunity will apply for his second term in his presidency. The verdict will almost certainly be reversed long before that term ends. As Jonathan Turley notes:
The case has long been denounced by objective legal observers, including intense Trump critics, as a legal absurdity. Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., simply called it total “b—s–t.”
It is a case based on a non-crime. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory. By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and essentially tried Trump for federal offenses.
In spite of a looming reversal, the conviction has positive implications for Second Amendment supporters and supporters of limited government in general.
There are cases moving forward in the legal system challenging federal law which bans all "felons" from possessing or owning firearms and ammunition. This is a relatively new federal crime, which came into being in 1968. Some courts have already declared the federal ban to be unconstitutional for non-violent offenses. The case most likely to be heard by the Supreme Court is Range v Lombardo, from the Third Circuit.
At the Supreme Court level, the justices are certain to know about the laughworthy felony convictions of President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court has a good chance of hearing the case if the New York Courts fail to do their duty. The Trump case is a near-perfect example of judicial overreach and lawfare. The idea of a Presidential candidate being stripped of a fundamental, in-numerated, Constitutional right, without any hint of violence, is likely to make an impression about the absurdity of many felony laws in the current United States of America.
President Trump will be affected. It is one thing to generally be in favor of restoring rights protected by the Second Amendment. It is more personal and significant to have infringements on Second Amendment rights directly used against you in a preposterous way.
President Trump has done more for the restoration of Second Amendment rights than any President before him. He has not demonstrated an intimate understanding of the war to restore those rights or the intricacies of the battles involved. In the future, the intimacy of the lawfare used against him may make the restoration of Second Amendment rights a personal battle for President Trump.
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“On January 29, 2025, at about 2:00 pm, at its plant in Moselle, Mississippi, an employee of Southern Hens had a dispute with another worker at the plant and left the secured area of the plant and retrieved a gun from the parking lot,” the statement read. “ He fired at least five shots in the parking lot area and when he turned the gun on the plant security guard, he was shot and killed by the guard.”
The release said Jones County Sheriff’s Department personnel were on-site. The company said all nonessential employees at the plant were released for the remaining work day as soon as it was cleared by JCSD.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department said 14-year-old Alfonso Sanderson was killed overnight after they said he and a friend tried to rob a woman and shot her at an apartment complex on Tramway Blvd. According to APD, the woman’s husband shot back killing Sanderson. The shooting is being investigated as a justifiable homicide.
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Sri Lanka has some of the most restrictive laws against firearm ownership and use in the world. The government recently demanded all legal firearms be turned in, except for those issued to farmers by the Ministry of Agriculture. No one is allowed to legally own a firearm without government permission. Government permission to own firearms is arbitrary and subjective. The recent demand, by the government, for all legal owners to turn in their guns, has largely been ignored. From srilanamirror.com:
As of now, it has been reported that nearly 50 firearms have been returned. However, around 1,650 firearm licenses have been issued by the Ministry for various reasons.
The Ministry emphasized that all firearms and ammunition must be returned before the specified date, and legal action will be taken against those who fail to comply, as per the Firearms Ordinance Act No. 33 of 1916.
The deadline for turning in the legal firearms was extended from November 7, to November 21, 2024. This correspondent has been unable to determine if further extensions were implemented.
The population of Sri Lanka is about 24 million people. There are about 1,650 non agricultural firearms licenses in the country. The Small Arms Survey estimates there are 35,000 legal firearms. It appears most firearms licenses are issued to farmers to protect their crops. The Small Arms Survey estimates there are 14 illegal firearms for every legal firearm (about half a million illegal firearms, many made in small shops for the black market).
Much of the food in the country is produced by small farmers on basic subsistence farms. In 2019, the Sri Lanka government instituted disastrous policies, forbidding the use of modern fertilizers and pesticides. Hunger and famine resulted. In 2022, the Prime Minister was forced to resign amidst violent protests. In 2023, the Secretary of Agriculture attempted to aid farmers by subsidizing the procurement of air rifles to help control and discourage the numerous animal and birds pests who were raiding and destroying farmers' crops.
An article railing against the policy was published in The Morning in Sri Lanka. The level of ignorance and arrogance is astounding. This is about ordinary air rifles, which in most countries, even countries with extreme restrictions on firearms, are not regulated. Air rifles are not regulated in Sri Lanka. The article was published on October 29, 2023, about a year ago.
Farmers cannot be trusted with air rifles. From themorning.lk:
He noted that it was difficult to guarantee safety regarding guns, especially in rural areas: “Distributing weapons to farmers will create massive socioeconomic issues within the community. Farmers are not trained to handle guns. They are farmers. Secondly, in their houses, there is no safe place to keep the gun. There are high levels of domestic violence in our society and these guns can be used to harm spouses.”
Quoted in the article from a member of a farmer federation:
“Providing air rifles is not a solution to the problem of crop damage by wild animals. The real solution would be to fulfil the basic necessities of the wild animals. It is pointless to provide these weapons to farmers. Moreover, there is a risk that people will use these weapons for other purposes,” Karunaratne cautioned.
He further noted that the matter required an approach that would ensure that the needs of wild animals were met.
In response, the Minister of Agriculture seems a beacon of sanity. Perhaps he is the reason farmers' firearms were exempted from the general confiscation order. From the Minister of Agriculture:
Speaking to The Sunday Morning, Amaraweera said: “The rifles were given on a concessionary basis where we contributed half the funds. We have given these farmers the necessary training to handle these weapons.”
Addressing the State oversight in existence for these weapons, the Minister noted that they did not constitute a significant concern for there to be a monitoring mechanism: “These are not lethal weapons,” he said, adding: “These are available in stores. Air rifles do not require licences. Anyone can buy an air rifle in the country, you only need the money. This is akin to a toy, since animals and humans cannot be killed with air rifles.”
Many people who want a disarmed population suffer from a surprising combination of arrogance and ignorance. In Australia, the arms legislation passed in 1996, made it harder to legally own a slingshot than to own a bolt action .30-06 or a double barreled shotgun.
Analysis:
Arrogance and ignorance are a recipe for disaster. Those with this combination are useful tools for those who desire to keep a population disarmed for political purposes. Strong gun controls seem to be correlated with corrupt and authoritarian/totalitarian governments who do not trust their people.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Metro Nashville Police are investigating a self-defense claim after a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of Bar-B-cutie on Gallatin Pike.
The shooting happened just after 9 a.m. on Saturday. Investigators believe 23-year-old Skyler Whitefield-Brewner and 50-year-old Richard Trout were in a confrontation when shots were fired. Trout was struck multiple times and later died at the hospital.
Whitefield-Brewner fled the scene but later went to MNPD headquarters to speak with detectives.
The first incident was in Rio Rancho at 11:55 p.m. Saturday. Police responded to a call from the 1500 block of 12th Street SE after a homeowner reportedly shot an intruder.
Rio Rancho police said that two adults and three children were asleep in the residence when an unknown suspect kicked in the front door and entered the home. The homeowner armed himself and confronted the intruder, shooting him once in the torso. The suspect was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Deputies said when an arson investigator with Hillsborough County Fire Rescue arrived on the scene, a man near the fires tried to fight the investigator.
The investigator pulled a gun, officials said, forcing fire crews to stay back until law enforcement could take the suspect into custody.
Firefighters got the flames under control within 30 minutes, HCFR said. No injuries were reported.
According to police, the officer and his wife were inside their home when they heard a “commotion” in the backyard of a neighbor’s house. The officer left his home and saw a man “mounted” on top of a woman, punching and strangling her. The officer then told his wife to call police, while the officer went into the backyard to separate the man and woman, McKenzie said.
The officer was able get the woman to safety. The man then followed the officer into his front yard and the officer gave “numerous” commands to the man to stop, saying he would shoot if he came closer, McKenzie said.
The man continued to approach the group and the off-duty officer and his wife both fired at him, McKenzie said. Medical personnel later pronounced the man dead.
The Hearing Protection Act has been re-introduced in 2025. The act removes silencers/gun mufflers from the National Firearms Act and places them in the same category as rifles and shotguns.
The introduced act does this by adding silencers/gun mufflers to applicable laws which now cover firearms, more specifically, rifles and shotguns, and removing them from the National Firearms Act.
In Title 18, United States Code, in section 922(b) --
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking "shotgun or rifle" the first place it appears and inserting "shotgun, rifle, firearms silencer or firearm muffler"; and
(B) in paragraph (3) by striking "rifle or shotgun" and inserting "shotgun, rifle, firearms silencer or muffler"; and
The bill also changes the tax on firearms silencers/gun mufflers from the NFA $200 tax stamp to that of the current tax on firearms of 10%.
The bill demands the destruction of all current NFA registration records of silencers/gun mufflers within 365 days after the date of the enactment of the Act.
There is a specific provision in the bill which states the requirements in the hearing protection act meet any registration and licensing requirements of the National Firearms Act with respect to silencers. This provision meets some state requirements which require silencers purchased and possessed in a state have to met the federal NFA requirements. Arizona has such a requirement. Without such a provision, it would require changes in state legislation to make silencers legal to possess in many states.
The bill has a preemption section which forbids states from imposing a silencer tax, or to require taxes on making, transferring, using, possessing, or transporting a firearm silencer in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or from imposing a marking, recordkeeping or registration requirement with respect to such a firearm silencer.
The definition of silencers/gun mufflers is reformed to only include the outer tube or other single part on which provides the primary housing or primary structure of the silencer. This definition replaces the old definition which included any part of a silencer which was specifically used and designed for a silencer. This definition eliminates the previous definition which made any silencer part a legal "silencer". The definition was sometimes stretched to include freeze plugs, o-rings and washers as silencers under the law.
Because silencers would be placed in the same category as rifles and shotguns, most states would allow silencers to be purchased across state lines, just as rifles and shotguns are at present. Silencers could be sold and transferred just as rifles and shotguns are today. It is unclear how the eight states which currently ban ownership of silencers would fare under this bill. The outright ban on ownership is being challenged in federal court in Illinois. Massachusetts is considering bills to legalize the ownership of silencers. New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, California and Hawaii are the other six states which currently ban silencers.
Analysis:
Because the Hearing Protection Act has much to do with taxes, it should be included in the reconciliation bill, dealing with the budget. If the act passes, expect additional legal challenges to outright bans on silencer/gun muffler possession and ownership in the eight states where the possession of silencers is banned by state law.
The text of the hearing protection act has not been officially entered in the House of Representatives as of this writing, but should be soon. As with all legislation, amendments and horsetrading are possible until the legislation actually passes.
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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A burglar is dead after a west Phoenix homeowner shot him on Friday night, police said.
It happened near 106th Avenue and Heatherbrae Drive, which is just north of Indian School Road, just after 6 p.m.
The suspect, a 51-year-old man, was shot and taken to the hospital, where he later died.
No one else was hurt.
The investigation revealed that Bullock smashed out the window of a car with a golf club near Knox Rail Salvage. A 24-year-old man heard the car window being smashed and confronted Bullock. Bullock then allegedly struck the man who intervened in the vehicle burglary with the golf club, and the man then shot Bullock.
Bullock ran from the area after he was shot but was detained by officers a short distance away from the scene of the shooting.
Charges are pending on Bullock related to the vehicle burglary and assault on the individual who shot him. That individual is fully cooperating with the investigation, which remains ongoing at this time.
Breitenbucher called 911 and said that his stepson Landon White, 31, had attacked him and threatened to kill him, police said. He reported using his personal firearm in self-defense.
Police said White doesn't live in the house, but that Breitenbucher found him there when he returned home.
Breitenbucher suffered a head injury and White was shot in the abdomen, police said. They were both taken to local hospitals for treatment.
According to police, Breitenbucher has been released from the hospital. As of Friday afternoon, White is still unconscious.
Gunshots were fired during an incident involving a stolen front-end loader in Garland.On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at approximately 5:30 a.m., the Penobscot Regional Communications Center received a report of individuals who appeared to be stealing a large front-end loader from a gravel pit near their residence. The incident was reported to be occurring on Upper Notch Road in Garland.
Shortly after receiving the initial call, the complainant reported that the front-end loader was now in their driveway, attempting to run through their house. The complainant also mentioned that the machine was destroying vehicles in the driveway.The initial investigation suggests that individuals exited the home and fired several rounds at the front-end loader. The machine then reversed out of the driveway and fled the scene. It crossed a large field and went down a woods road.At approximately 6:10 a.m. PRCC received another report that a large front-end loader was driving on the roadway, it was eventually located by law enforcement on the Center Road in Charleston. The lone occupant surrendered to law enforcement without incident and told them, he had been shot. Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene and transported the man to a local hospital. Upon his release, he was arrested and transported to the Penobscot County Jail.The operator of the front-end loader was identified as Michael Thompson (37) of Corinna. This investigation remains active and additional charges may be pending.
The Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Maine State Police.
Hazelwood watched from his window as Goodyear hit Hazelwood’s vehicle with an iron pipe, according to what Hazelwood told the Sheriff’s Office. Hazelwood said Goodyear then approached the home, still armed with the pipe, and began to beat the home, breaking several windows. Goodyear then allegedly began to beat the front door of Hazelwood’s home with the pipe, eventually breaking the door open, at which point Hazelwood fired one round from a .38 caliber handgun, hitting Goodyear.
At least two suspects inside a black Suburban were canvassing the parking lot. Police said one of the suspects jumped out of the SUV and pepper-sprayed both of the armored truck workers.
The security guard was able to fire his gun and hit the suspect who sprayed them. That suspect was taken to the hospital.
Police said they were not sure if the suspects got away with any money from the truck.
The shooter told responding officers that he and his brother – deceased male – had been involved in multiple disturbances and arguments over the past couple of days. The shooter said his brother was trying to force his way into a room occupied by two female family members and a child. The shooter said he shot his brother in an attempt to protect himself and family members. No other persons were injured in this shooting.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office was contacted and it was determined the case would be presented to a grand jury for review.
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