Miss. pastors receive training in church security
Some Mississippi church leaders are learning how to make houses of worship more secure.
Islamic State fighters seize weapons cache meant for Kurds
Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were meant to supply Kurdish militiamen battling the extremist group in a border town, activists said Tuesday.
Putin promises new weapons to fend Western threats
Russia will counter military moves by the U.S. and NATO with an array of new nuclear and conventional weapons, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday as the military successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine.
Federal officials rethinking giving excess military gear to police
After a decade of sending military equipment to civilian police departments across the country, federal officials are reconsidering the idea in light of the violence in Ferguson, Missouri.
House votes to renew plastic gun ban
With the advent of 3-D printers capable of producing plastic weapons, the House voted Tuesday to renew a 25-year-old prohibition against firearms that can evade metal detectors and X-ray machines.
Syria’s Assad vows to comply with UN resolution
BEIRUT — Syria’s president vowed Sunday to abide by the U.N. resolution calling for the country’s chemical weapons stockpile to be destroyed. Speaking to Italy’s
Powers limited, Obama, Biden seek action on guns
Months after gun control efforts crumbled in Congress, Vice President Joe Biden stood shoulder to shoulder Thursday with the attorney general and the top U.S. firearms official and declared the Obama administration would take two new steps to curb American gun violence.
Bills would remove gun permits from public records
Some Mississippi lawmakers propose cutting off public access to records about state-issued permits for people to carry concealed guns.
Gun sales boom as enthusiasts fear ban
As the debate over gun rights rages around the nation in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, gun enthusiasts are snatching guns off the shelves as quickly as dealers can stock them.
Experts: Trained police needed for school security
The student’s attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive.
People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn’t hear. He experienced “a tunnel vision of concentration.”
Gun group offers training for Utah teachers
Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She’s one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.
“If we have the ability to stop something, we should do it,” said the elementary school teacher, who along with nearly 200 other teachers in Utah took six hours of free gun training offered by the state’s leading gun lobby.