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 President Barack Obama has threatened to veto a Department of Justice appropriations bill House Republicans passed because, visit web among other things, it includes a provision that blocks a gun control rule passed in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious.
The Obama administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wrote, and began implementing, a new rule that would require gun dealers in the four U.S. states that border Mexico to report sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles to the ATF.
In the 2013 fiscal year budget for the Department of Justice and related agencies, House Republicans inserted a rider, or condition, that would force the ATF to not implement that rule.Several House Republicans have charged that the Obama administration had an anti-gun agenda when it carried out Fast and Furious, and are particularly wary of Attorney General Eric Holder, who once expressed the need to “brainwash” the American people into disliking firearm ownership.
In a statement the White House released upon receiving the House appropriations bill, the administration threatened it would veto the legislation because of that ATF rider, among other things.-[source]
 An 84-year-old western Pennsylvania man and Korean War vet shot and wounded a home invasion suspect, and then forgave the man’s family when they came to apologize.
Police said Raymond Hiles, 25, was captured Tuesday not long after trying to break into Fred Ricciutti’s Elizabeth Township home, about 15 miles south of Pittsburgh.
“My wife and I were asleep. We were staying downstairs because my wife is ill,” Ricciutti told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Ricciutti said he heard a noise at about 4:30 a.m. and could see someone coming into the room. He pulled a gun out of a drawer, yelled a warning at Hiles and then fired once, hitting him in the neck.
Ricciutti, who was born in Italy, said he came to the U.S. in 1937, and later served in a tank battalion during the Korean War.
“In the war I experienced a lot of bad things, but I had never experienced that in my own house,” he said of the invasion.
Ricciutti said the suspect lives across the street, and he’s never faced any hostility in the town.
“I know the family. They’re good people,” he said, adding that they came over in tears to apologize for what Hiles allegedly did.
“I forgave them,” he said, adding that he couldn’t hold them responsible for Hiles’ actions.
WPXI-TV first reported that investigators said Hiles was arrested a few blocks away, carrying a screwdriver and a stun gun. He’s being held on $100,000 bail on charges including criminal trespass and burglary.
Online court records don’t list an attorney for Hiles.
Authorities said they don’t expect to bring any charges against Ricciutti.-[source]
 Well, the joke’s on him.
An 18-year-old man, who said he was joking when he allegedly entered a suburban Dallas police station demanding money and later saying he had a gun, has been jailed and charged with robbery and theft.
Keithan Kennard Manuel is in Dallas County jail with bonds totaling $300,000 after the incident at the Wilmer Police Department, 15 miles south of Dallas. Carl Hays, Manuel’s attorney, didn’t return messages from The Associated Press seeking comment on Tuesday.Police records show Manuel walked into the police station Saturday with a white towel over his hands, and told the dispatcher to hand over the stationhouse’s money. The records show Manuel changed his request to asking if there were any warrants against him, but, as the dispatcher checked, Manuel then said he had a gun. Two officers arrested him.-[source]
A 52-year-old man has potentially life-threatening injuries after accidentally shooting himself in the chest at the Scottsdale Gun Club on Tuesday afternoon, story police said.
He was conscious and talking while being taken to a hospital, no rx said David Pubins, a spokesman for the Scottsdale Police Department.
Representatives of the Scottsdale Gun Club had no comment.
The events leading up to the shooting were not immediately known.-[source]
 Kansas Senator Jerry Moran introduced legislation to prohibit the Obama administration from negotiating away our gun rights as part of the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
The ATT is a backdoor attempt to impose massive restrictions on U.S. gun rights. While negotiations on the treaty are being held behind closed doors, here it is certain to include language that will:
- Require the registration and licensure of American firearms;
- Ban large categories of firearms;
- Require the mandatory destruction of surplus ammo and confiscated firearms;
- Define manufacturing so broadly that any gun owner who adds an accessory such as a scope or changes a stock on a firearm would be required to obtain a manufacturing license;
- Require “microstamping” of ammunition.
The treaty could also be self-executing, which would mean that it would achieve its anti-gun objectives whether or not implementing legislation was passed by Congress.
Some people think the U.S. would never sign off on such a treaty. Well, think again.
In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the U.S. agreed to negotiate on the treaty.
That’s a shift from the Bush administration, which declared the ATT dead on arrival. President Bush wouldn’t have delivered the treaty to the Senate for ratification, but Obama can’t wait to use this vehicle as a way to show his anti-gun base that he is doing something on the gun control front.-[source]
 El Paso has become an important firearms-smuggling center for the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is engaged in an ongoing battle against its rivals in Juárez and Mexico, according to a new U.S. congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious.
The May 3 report issued by the U.S. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the latest update on the congressional investigation into the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ controversial gun-walking operation, which began in 2009.
“Three months into Operation Fast and Furious, El Paso had emerged as a central hub for the transport of weapons being smuggled by Manuel Celis-Acosta’s syndicate,” the report said.
“Since the beginning of Fast and Furious, ATF intelligence analysts had noticed an eastern shift in weapons crossing the border — from Tijuana and Arizona to El Paso and Juárez.”
Fast and Furious also may have enabled Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel to carve out its new smuggling routes through Juárez and El Paso.
Although local law enforcement in El Paso was asked to assist with the operation, the U.S. Department of Justice has not provided details about the local efforts, including whether they were linked to the Fast and Furious weapons that were used in the 2010 kidnapping-murder of lawyer Mario González Rodríguez, brother of former Chihuahua state Attorney General Patricia González Rodríguez.-[source]
A federal appeals court says illegal immigrants don’t have a right to own firearms under the U.S. Constitution. Emmanuel Huitron-Guizar of Wyoming pleaded guilty to being an illegal immigrant in possession of firearms after his arrest last year. He was ordered held by immigration authorities at the Natrona County Detention Center in Wyoming. An attorney for Huitron-Guizar appealed the case, saying illegal immigrants are not excluded from possessing firearms like felons and people who are mentally ill, and should have the same rights as U.S. citizens to buy a gun for hunting and protection. The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Monday that illegal immigrants have only limited protection under the Constitution. Huitron-Guizar’s attorney didn’t return a call seeking comment.-[source]
Police investigate the fatal shooting Wednesday along the Thun Trail in Cumru Township, just outside West Reading.
A 65-year-old man shot two teens, one fatally, as they tried to rob him Wednesday morning on a trail near the Schuylkill River, police said.
The Berks County coroner’s office did not release the name of the boy who was killed, saying only that he was a 16-year-old from the city. Officials said his mother asked them to give her time to notify relatives before releasing his name.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:17 p.m. by Deputy Coroner Jonn M. Hollenbach. An autopsy is scheduled this afternoon in Reading Hospital.
The other teen, who was shot once, was taken to Reading Hospital. Police did not release his name. Information on his condition could not be obtained.
A third teen, identified only as a 15-year-old boy, was stopped at the scene by police and taken in for questioning. He was later committed to the county youth center in Bern Township on unspecified charges.
Authorities also did not release the name of the man, who was not charged.-[source]
In Bamoa station, Guasave, where the Army gunned down 10 suspected criminals, seized 25 firearms, including two 50-caliber Barrett, 1,600 rounds of ammunition, 95 magazines, a grenade launcher and eight grenades of various types.
They also seized four vehicles, two of them armored, whose records are checked to establish the identity of their owners.
According to a statement of the Ninth Military Zone, ground inspection by the area, soldiers found armed men, which at its presence felt attacked by what is said aggression.
The armed group took refuge in the hotel Macurin, located down the street Benito Juarez, where the military exchanged fire for several hours, until 10 of them were killed and two soldiers were killed.
The State Attorney’s Office said there is no evidence that this has a connection with clashes last weekend in the Sierra de Choix, where 13 suspected criminals were killed by federal forces.
In those same events, a municipal police officer of Choix and copilot of a helicopter of the armed forces were killed.-[source]
 An airstrike Sunday killed a top Al Qaeda leader on the FBI’s most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said. The drone attack was carried out by the CIA, U.S. officials said.
Fahd al-Quso was hit by a missile as he stepped out of his vehicle, along with another Al Qaeda operative in the southern Shabwa province, Yemeni military officials said. They were speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with military regulations.
The drone strike that killed Quso was carried out by the CIA, after an extended surveillance operation by the CIA and U.S. military, two U.S. officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The strike was authorized by the Yemeni government, which then made the announcement after the operation was complete, the officials said, part of the U.S. strategy to give the host government more public ownership of the operation being carried out on Yemeni soil.-[source]
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