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Activist Nuns, With Stake in Smith & Wesson, Sue Gun Maker Over AR-15 Rifles
5Dec By adminNo Comments
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Activist Nuns, With Stake in Smith & Wesson, Sue Gun Maker Over AR-15 Rifles

Updated Dec. 5, 2023 3:49 pm ETA group of activist nuns filed an unusual shareholder lawsuit to pressure gun maker Smith & Wesson to drastically change the way it markets, makes and sells its popular version of the AR-15 rifle.The so-called shareholder derivative action, which the nuns filed in Nevada state court Tuesday against publicly traded Smith & Wesson, alleges that company leaders are putting shareholders at risk. They argue the leaders are exposing the company to liability by the way they have made and sold the rifle, which has been used in several mass shootings in recent years.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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FBI Arrests Woman Accused of Sending Violent Threats to Uvalde School, Residents
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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FBI Arrests Woman Accused of Sending Violent Threats to Uvalde School, Residents

Federal officials this week arrested a young woman claiming to be the ex-girlfriend of a gunman who killed 21 people at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, after officials say she spent years sending violent threats to the school and others in the community.Victoria Gabriela Rodriguez-Morales, a 19-year-old former resident of Uvalde, was arrested in Puerto Rico on Tuesday and charged with making interstate threats, according to court records. The arrest followed scores of violent messages from email and social-media accounts tied to her to Uvaldeans that began years before the 2022 shooting and have gone on since.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Maine Lawmaker Looked at His AR-15 Differently After Lewiston Massacre
10Nov By adminNo Comments
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Maine Lawmaker Looked at His AR-15 Differently After Lewiston Massacre

Updated Nov. 10, 2023 1:28 pm ETListen to article(1 minute)WASHINGTON—The AR-15 was Jared Golden’s weapon of choice for self-defense. He knew how lethal the gun was, and how easy to use, from his days serving as a Marine, and he kept one in his home in Lewiston, Maine. He was confident it would keep him safe.Then last month, a gunman used a weapon much like that one to kill 18 people and wound more than a dozen not more than a five-minute jog from the Democratic U.S. representative’s home.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Dire Warnings About Maine Shooter Robert Card Didn’t Stop His Rampage
31Oct By adminNo Comments
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Dire Warnings About Maine Shooter Robert Card Didn’t Stop His Rampage

Updated Oct. 31, 2023 7:01 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)BATH, Maine—In the months before Robert Card carried out Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, those around him feared he was sinking deeper into a dangerous mental health crisis.He told his family he had been hearing voices, prompting them to contact police about the many guns he had access to. His Army Reserve commanders ordered him to spend time in a New York hospital after having a paranoid episode during a training trip there. A firearms dealer refused to sell Card a silencer after he disclosed his psychiatric troubles.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Maine Mass Shooting Suspect’s Body Found at Site Where He Had Worked
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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Maine Mass Shooting Suspect’s Body Found at Site Where He Had Worked

The body of the man suspected of killing 18 people in a shooting spree in Maine was discovered at a recycling facility where he had worked, after its owner asked authorities to return to search a parking lot across the street. Robert Card, the suspect in the worst mass shooting in the U.S. this year, was found Friday dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the third trailer that police searched on the lot. He had two firearms with him, in addition to the long gun he had left behind in a white Subaru station wagon. Police didn’t say what types of guns were found with his body. All of the guns were purchased by Card legally, authorities said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Manhunt Enters Third Day After Mass Shootings, Authorities Set to Search River
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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Manhunt Enters Third Day After Mass Shootings, Authorities Set to Search River

Listen to article(2 minutes)LEWISTON, Maine—Police sent divers to search a local river Friday near the last known location of the Maine shooting suspect Robert Card, who remains at large following the deadliest U.S. mass shooting this year.The search continued as the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said the state has now identified all 18 of the people killed on Wednesday, and as more details about those killed emerged.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Israeli Military Shows Video Evidence of Oct. 7 Attacks, Some Taken From Militants’ Body Cams
23Oct By adminNo Comments
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Israeli Military Shows Video Evidence of Oct. 7 Attacks, Some Taken From Militants’ Body Cams

Listen to article(2 minutes)TEL AVIV—Israel’s military on Monday screened a 47-minute video featuring images of Hamas militants’ killing spree across southern Israel on Oct. 7, as part of a government effort to document the attacks and push back against what it says are denials of their severity.The footage was gleaned from body cameras worn by Hamas fighters who died, security cameras and the cellphones and social media of Israeli victims, the military said. It showed the video to 170 reporters at a military base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Liberals Need a Reckoning With Anti-Semitism
16Oct By adminNo Comments
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Liberals Need a Reckoning With Anti-Semitism

Gerry Baker is Editor at Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker is also host of “WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker,” a weekly news and current affairs interview show on the Fox Business Network, and the weekly WSJ Opinion podcast "Free Expression" where he speaks with some of the world's leading writers, influencers and thinkers about a variety of subjects.Mr. Baker previously served as Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones from 2013-2018. Prior to that, Mr. Baker was Deputy Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal from 2009-2013. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, writing and broadcasting for some of the world’s most famous news organizations, ...
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The Secret Deal That Put a Real Rifle Into ‘Call of Duty’
16Oct By adminNo Comments
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The Secret Deal That Put a Real Rifle Into ‘Call of Duty’

A top U.S. gun maker signed a previously undisclosed deal to put one of its rifles in the popular videogame franchise Call of Duty as part of a marketing plan to reach young customers, according to internal emails and company records.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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