By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The number of guns seized at airport security checkpoints has increased for the third straight year, Skift reports. Security already discovered more guns this year than it found all of last year. The number of guns reached more than 1,813, which is how many guns were discovered in 2013. In 2012,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One school district in Alabama has taken the unusual step of hiring a former FBI agent to monitor students on social media, the Daily Intelligencer reports. The idea was to catch students who make statements linking them to drugs, guns, sex and gangs. The effort led to 14 expulsions last year….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of two high-powered weapons and body armor from an FBI agent’s car in North Carolina, WSOCTV.com reports. The shotgun and rifle were stolen from the agent’s car sometime between midnight and 8 a.m. Monday in the Hunter Oaks…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new study by the FBI reveals that mass shootings are on the rise and killing more people. The Wall Street Journal reports that the study found 160 “active-shooter” events from 2000 to 2013. The study defines an “active shooter” as “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the ATF gets its way, new gun owners will have to identify their ethnicity on firearm records. But lawmakers in the House have introduced a bill to eliminate that controversial requirement, The Hill reports. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., demanded answers. “The right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms is an…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Canadian woman is accused of packing her checked luggage full with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammo and 33 pounds of marijuana, NBC New York reports. The TSA found the items stuffed into household items like baby wipes, lemonade mix and cat litter. The 24-year-old woman from Scarborough, Ontario,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A New York man is accused of trying to buy guns for the terror group ISIS and has been charged with terrorism-related counts following an FBI investigation, NBC reports. The FBI alleges Mufid Elfgeeh wanted to kill American soldiers and Shiite Muslims in the U.S. He also wanted to recruit potential…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The TSA can’t understand why seemingly educated people are trying to bring guns onto airplanes. The Washington Post reports that the federal agency has been alarmed at the increase in the number of guns detected at checkpoints nationwide. In 2013, the TSA detected 1,800 firearms, compared to 1,500 in 2012 and 1,300…
