By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a bill that make sense. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida has introduced legislation to establish a computerized, searchable database of gun records under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Monday. The Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act would strike a current federal prohibition on the creation of a searchable…
A majority of the assailants in mass attacks in the U.S. last year shared strikingly similar traits, a new Secret Service report found.
Acting FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich acknowledged to members of Congress on Tuesday that the bureau failed to properly follow up on two warning calls about the former student who gunned down 17 students and teachers at a Florida school on Valentine’s Day.
President Trump, in a significant departure from his uncompromising, pro-NRA stance on guns, is directing the Justice Department to propose regulations to “ban all devices” such as the bump stocks used in the Las Vegas mass shooting.
The FBI’s admission that it failed to properly follow up on a tip about the Florida school shooter has drawn mounting criticism, including calls for the bureau’s boss to step down.
Suspected Russian-linked Twitter accounts pounced on the gun control debate just an hour after last week’s school shooting in Florida.
The FBI admitted today that it failed to act on a warning in January that suspected mass killer Nikolas Cruz was armed and may carry out a school shooting, the first indication that federal authorities missed an opportunity to prevent the attack on a Florida high school.
The FBI is reviewing how it handled a tip months ago about a YouTube user named Nikolas Cruz who boasted he was “going to be a professional school shooter.”
