Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com This wasn’t your typical store robbery. Two crooks stole 36 guns after breaking through the roof of a Phoenix pawn shop, Myfoxphoenix.com reports. Concerned about where those guns are going, the ATF is offering a reward. The thieves only swiped handguns. “They have to acquire guns. Certainly the U.S. is no stranger,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Congresswoman is calling for the Justice Department to study the racial impact of “Stand Your Ground” laws, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Cleveland, and a group of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to AG Eric Holder to plead for more documentation and study of the laws that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just a month after the FBI arrested its founder, the black market site Silk Road is back up, the Daily Caller reports. The notorious site, where people could buy drugs, guns and even hit men, relaunched Wednesday with more protections for its customers, who use a currency called Bitcoin to avoid being…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty FBI agent’s decision to take a gun into an elementary school in Nebraska has prompted debate about addressing the state’s gun law, Omaha World-Herald reports. A parent at a Papillion elementary school spotted the gun and asked the school board to clarify the law on plainclothes officers carrying weapons. Nebraska…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sometimes the FBI and journalists don’t see eye to eye. So what’s a better way to nurture that relationship than to host a day at a firing range with reporters in Alabama, AL.com reports? Journalists and agents gathered Tuesday for FBI Range Day, which gives the media a firsthand look at guns,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hollis Nunnery didn’t let the fact that he was a convicted felon get in the way of posting pictures of himself holding guns on Facebook, WoodTV.com reports. Nunnery also happened to be the focus of an FBI investigation into bank robberies. After spotting Nunnery holding a large handgun with a laster site,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has received more than 200 complaints from pro-drug advocates after agents raided Silk Road, an online marketplace for drugs, guns and other illicit goods, the Guardian reports. While attempting to access $80 million worth of Bitcoins accumulated by Silk Road founder, the FBI seized $3.2 million worth of Bitcoins that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. and Puerto Rico are safer today because of an anti-crime initiative aimed at putting more federal agents in Puerto Rico, Reuters reports. Dubbed “Operation Caribbean Resilience,” the effort started in July 2012 but increased markedly over the last three months, according to Reuters. In the past year, the operation has…
