Democrat Senators Introduce One-Handgun-a-Month Purchase Limit
16 Apr 2021
Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) are pushing federal gun control proposals that mirror restrictions adopted in the state of Virginia in 2020.
InsideNova reports the legislation is called the Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act. It includes an expansion of background checks and a red flag law.
13 News Now notes the Act also include a one-handgun-a-month purchase limit.
Kaine and Warner released a joint statement on their gun control push, saying, “Virginia knows all too well the heartbreaking consequences of gun violence. We’ve seen it in the tragedies of Virginia Tech and Virginia Beach and the countless drive-by shootings, domestic violence, and suicides by firearm across the country. We’re proud of the Commonwealth for leading the way to advance gun reform; now it’s time for Congress to save lives.”
16 Apr 2021
The attacker who allegedly killed eight people at a Indianapolis, Indiana, FedEx facility Thursday night has been identified as Brandon Scott Hole, NBC News revealed.
Breitbart News reported the mass shooting left eight innocents dead. Police indicated the suspected gunman allegedly took his own life after the eight were killed.
NBC News coordinating producer Susan Kroll tweeted the identity of the alleged attacker:
Law enforcement sources tell @NBCNews the FedEx shooting suspect has been identified as 20-year-old Brandon Scott Hole
13 News noted “federal agents and police” went to Hole’s home on Friday and were seen carrying “evidence” out to their vehicles.
According to the
Chicago Sun-Times, the shootings began around 1 a.m. when two males–a 23-year-old and a 25-year-old–were shot while standing “in an alley in the 2400 block of West Grenshaw Street.”
The 23-year-old was shot in the side and the 25-year-old was shot in the back.
Just over an hour later an 18-year-old woman was shot in a drive-by shooting, and that incident was followed by a 33-year-old man being shot while sitting in a vehicle just after 3 a.m.
Shootings continued throughout the day, with the last one on Tuesday occurring at 11:50 p.m. ” in the 6200 block of South Troy Street.”
11 Apr 2021
There have been 60 shootings on expressways in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago so far this year.
Fox News notes this puts the city on pace to top the 128 shootings witnessed in all of 2020, and it already surpasses the 52 such shootings which took place in 2019.
Illinois State Police are responding to the gun violence surge by spending $12.5 million on cameras with which to monitor the expressways.
NBC 5 reports one person “was seriously hurt” in the latest expressway shooting. That shooting occurred Thursday morning just after 11 a.m. on I-57.
In non-expressway violence, ABC 7 /
Chicago Sun-Timesobserved 12 people were shot, one fatally, Friday into early Saturday night in Chicago.