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 We all dread that moment when we know in our gut that somebody is breaking into our home. For 60-year-old Donald Kimbrough of Monroe County, sickness Mississippi, that moment came at around 7:20 Monday night.
Kimbrough recalled that moment of gut-wrenching anxiety: “I noticed that my gun safe was open and that my cabinet doors were open and stuff was just strewed all over the floor.”
This could have been a desperate moment for the former U.S. Army Infantryman, but Kimbrough knew exactly what to do. He told his wife to stay in the car and dial 911, he grabbed the shotgun that he kept next to the door, and he went to investigate. Kimbrough spotted an individual who was attempting to flee the scene and opened fire. The bullets struck the camper but missed the suspect.
Firing at somebody who has his back turned to you would definitely look bad in a court room, but Monroe County Sheriff Cecile Cantrell said, “I think he did what most people would do. And I salute him for what he did do because I really believe that he was protecting his dwelling and his family.”
According to Cantrell, shooting at the suspect was justified in this case because there was reasonable concern that the thief was armed with Kimbrough’s guns. In fact, four guns had been stolen from the residence, though two were found outside in the backyard. -[source]
One of the world’s most wanted criminals might find himself in the crosshairs of U.S. Navy SEALs, a Mexico City publication has reported.
Anonymous sources in U.S. and Mexican military circles told Proceso magazine that drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a high value target in President Calderon’s War on Drugs, might be hunted down in an operation similar to the one that nabbed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in 2011 (Operation Neptune Spear).
The alleged plan involves sending in three teams of Navy SEALs into the mountainous states of Sinaloa and Durango, where Guzmán, the leader of the world’s most powerful drug trafficking operation, the Sinaloa Cartel, is believed to reside.
Two SEAL teams would descend on Guzmán’s compound while the other would stay airborne in a helicopter flanked by heavily armed, unmanned drones. SEALs would then carry out the “kill or capture” mission, snuffing out any resistance from retaliatory forces.
Sources defined the proposed operation as a “simple, quick, and surgical” strike against “El Chapo.”
The “El Chapo” operation would be “observed and directed “in real time” from the headquarters of the Pentagon’s Northern Command, and even from the offices of the National Security Council at the White House,” Proceso reported.-[source]
 East Coast gun manufacturers may pick up and move west should New york and Connecticut pass laws that would not only drive up their costs, dosage but in doing so, limit their sales. The reason for such drastic measures is that both New York and Connecticut are looking to mandate firearms microstamping, which would cost the industry, taxpayers and consumers.
The New American reports,
That could be the fate of the Remington Arms Company plant in Ilion, New York, the economic lifeblood of the small New York town lying halfway between Albany and Syracuse. The company’s roots in the town go back nearly 200 years, since Eliphalet Remington, Jr. forged his first rifle barrel there. Today the company employs about 1,000 workers in a town with a population of just over 8,000. But the company has suggested, none too subtly, that it may move its Ilion plant to another state if Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s lawmakers enact gun legislation now under consideration in Albany.
The proposals, the New York Times reported Friday, include a limit in firearms sales of no more than one per month to any one person and a background check of anyone purchasing ammunition. Most troubling to the manufacturers, however, is a plan to require, for the purpose of ballistics identification, the microstamping of every semiautomatic pistol sold in the state. The law would require manufacturers to laser-engrave the gun’s make, model, and serial number on the firing pin of each handgun so the information is imprinted on the cartridge casing when the gun is fired. Gun makers say the method is flawed, could easily be defeated, and would require a retooling of the industry that would add what Remington executive Stephen P. Jackson, Jr. called “astronomical sums” to the cost of manufacturing.-[source]
LL Cool J came face-to-face with a burglary suspect in his home, and took the guy down with his own hands early this morning … TMZ has learned.
According to law enforcement sources … the suspect entered LL’s Los Angeles area house around 2AM, but unfortunately for him the actor/rapper/badass was home.
We’re told LL heard some commotion downstairs, went to check it out … and found the intruder.
Sources say the intruder had tripped LL’s alarm system, but the “NCIS Los Angeles” star — who is a physical beast — decided to go hand-to-hand combat on the dude … and managed to detain him until LAPD arrived a few minutes later to make the arrest.
We’re told LL is okay, but the suspect — who will be booked for burglary — suffered a few bruises.
Mama said knock you out.-[source]
A federal judge’s decision today could be crucial in determining the future of a U.S. trucker being held in a Mexican prison and accused of trafficking thousands of rounds of ammunition into Mexico.
Jabin Akeem Bogan, 27, was arrested by Mexican authorities in April this year after he drove a tractor-trailer with 268,000 rounds of ammunition across the international Bridge of the Americas.
Bogan, whose employer said he was transporting legitimate cargo to a gun store in Phoenix, contends he entered Mexico accidentally after he took a wrong turn that led him to the bridge.
His attorney in Mexico, José Emilio de la Rosa, said he has requested a federal appeals court in Juárez to reduce his charges from trafficking to possession of ammunition.
Weapons and ammunition trafficking is highly penalized in Mexico — up to 30 years in prison — but a guilty verdict for possession carries a much lower sentence of between two and six years in prison.-[source]
 Prompted by victims of violence in Mexico, the City Council on Tuesday approved — not without debate — a resolution calling for the endorsement of a voluntary code of conduct for firearm sales.
The resolution, which also called for a discussion on the country’s drug policies and prioritizing human rights in U.S.-Mexico collaborations, was a gesture of solidarity with the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity. The group of about 110 people is traveling through the U.S. to create awareness about the U.S. link to drug violence in Mexico among policymakers and the public.-[source]
Police say a clerk at a Las Vegas Dairy Queen shot and killed a sword-wielding, visit this site masked man who tried to rob the restaurant.
Detectives say the suspect was shot twice and was lying just outside the doors when officers arrived around 12:15 p.m. Sunday.
The suspect died at a hospital.
Metro Police Lt. Les Lane tells the Las Vegas-Journal the sword was at least three-feet long.
Authorities say the shooting appears to have been in self-defense but that detectives were investigating whether the gun used was properly registered.
They say only two employees and no customers were present at the time of the shooting.-[source]
 Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, sickness Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed to be hurtling toward Washington. Penney, pilule one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was told to stop it.
The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft.
Except her own plane. So that was the plan.
Because the surprise attacks were unfolding, in that innocent age, faster than they could arm war planes, Penney and her commanding officer went up to fly their jets straight into a Boeing 757.
“We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.”-[source]
Surgeons have incredibly high-stress jobs, viagra but the most experienced brain surgeon has got nothing on Lt. Cmdr. James Gennari of the U.S. Navy Nurses Corps, this who received a Bronze Star after helping to remove a live rocket-propelled grenade from a Marine’s leg. Yeah, prescription you read that right – the whole time, the grenade was just one twitch away from exploding and sending out a blast powerful enough to destroy a car.
It was just another day for Gennari in an Afghan battle zone when a helicopter brought in a Marine who had a rocket-propelled grenade lodged in his leg. The wound was as gruesome as it was dangerous, with the head of the grenade protruding from one side of the Marine’s leg and the fins of the grenade sticking out of the other side.
At first, the medical staff wasn’t really all that sure what to do with Lance Cpl. Winder Perez, the unlucky Marine who had caught the grenade. They kept Perez on a gurney outside of the hospital while they considered their options. They considered getting the surgeon to cut out the grenade, but they ultimately decided against it – the hospital only had one surgeon.
The surgeon even warned Gennari that he was not obligated to help Perez, but Gennari recalls saying, “I’m a nurse. That’s my job. I’m going.”
Gennari teamed up with Army Staff Sgt. Ben Summerfield, an explosive expert, and together they began what would probably be the most delicate medical operation that all three of the men would ever have to endure. Gennari squeezed Perez’s hand and said, “I promise out no matter what, I won’t leave you until that thing’s out of your leg.”
Perez answered, “Thanks, cool,” and one shot of anesthesia later that was the last thing Perez would remember about the event.-[source]
 Those of us who call the Golden State home can rejoice today. That is, thanks in large part to grassroots organizations such as Gun Owners of California and the Calguns Foundation, the bill (SB 249) created to ban bullet buttons and a slew of features and accessories for semi-auto rifles is dead in the water – at least for this year.
News of this major victory for the California gun community came by way of the state’s Assembly Appropriations Committee, which announced that the bill was pulled from the committee’s Thursday agenda and will not be heard by lawmakers. No hearing means no vote and no vote means that the bill cannot be passed into law.
In a statement the sponsor of the bill, Senator Leland Yee, expressed regret that his pro-gun control measure was removed from the schedule (the actual deadline for the bill is this Friday, if the committee doesn’t vote on it by then, which is almost certain now, it cannot be reintroduced until the 2013 legislative session).-[source]
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