By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sonomo County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus had a split second to decide whether to pull the trigger when a teenager pointed what appeared to be an automatic weapon at him. The 24-year veteran of the department squeezed the trigger eight times, killing the 13-year-old boy who turned out to be holding…
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page The Obama administration took a concrete step toward curbing the flow of semiautomatic weapons to Mexico last week when it adopted a new regulation mandating the reporting of multiple sales of long guns to federal authorities. Under the regulation, some 8,500 licensed gun shops in Arizona, California, New…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A law enforcement bulletin is warning that Mexican drug cartel members have talked about killing U.S. law enforcement agents on the American side of the border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said Thursday that the gangsters were overheard talking about killing U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A variety of federal agent voiced “anguished objections” over an ATF operation that allowed guns to be smuggled in Mexico so they could be traced to the top levels of the drug cartels, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reported that the operation known as “Operation Fast and Furious” lost…
