Barbershop owner shoots, kills armed robber in self-defense,

SAN ANTONIO – The owner of a North Side barbershop shot a man multiple times during an attempted robbery, according to authorities.

The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 2000 block of Basse Road.

San Antonio police said a man entered the barbershop while it was open and started demanding wallets and purses while flashing a gun.

One of the business owners, described as a 26-year-old man, did not comply quickly enough with the orders and was pistol-whipped by the other man, according to SAPD.

The suspect then focused his attention on the other business owner, a 51-year-old woman, and pulled out zip ties. At the same time, the male business owner pulled out a gun and shot the suspect multiple times in the chest, SAPD told KSAT.

The man who attempted to rob the business was initially hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, police said. However, the Bexar County Medical Examiner later confirmed that he died.

Police said the male business owner had the right to use lethal force and is not expected to face charges.

Bondi Orders ATF to Shift Resources Away from Alcohol, Tobacco

In one of her first acts as Attorney General, Pam Bondi ordered an apparent reshuffling of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

As part of a memo outlining the Trump Administration’s approach to charging and sentencing, Bondi ordered the ATF to deprioritize some enforcement efforts. Instead, she told the agency to focus resources on areas ranging from immigration enforcement to human trafficking and transnational gangs. However, she also told them not to deprioritize firearms regulations.

“To free resources to address more pressing priorities, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) shall shift resources from its Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement Programs to focus on matters relating to the other priorities set forth herein,” Bondi said in the memo. “No resources shall be diverted from the ATF’s regulatory responsibilities, such as federal firearms licenses and background checks.”

The move comes after Trump reportedly expanded ATF agents’s authority to enforce immigration law. It shows the Trump Administration’s willingness to fundamentally change the makeup and mission of federal law enforcement agencies. It is also the first indication of how Bondi may approach gun policy as AG and another indication that the priorities of gun-rights activists are secondary to other interests in the new administration, such as an immigration crackdown.

Bondi, who faced opposition from some gun-rights activists over her history of backing stricter gun laws, such as “Red Flag” laws and broader age restrictions for gun purchases, was confirmed as AG with full Republican support on Wednesday. She described herself as “pro-Second Amendment” during her confirmation. However, she also qualified her position on gun policy by pointing to her experience responding to mass shootings.

“I am pro-Second Amendment. I have always been pro-Second Amendment,” she said. “I will follow the laws of my state of Florida and our country, of course. Regarding any gun laws, I worked that shooting, meaning I was there when 17 family members were notified–I was there–that their children were murdered. Also, Pulse Nightclub. I also went to Nevada to help with the MGM shooting. The Attorney General at the time asked me to come out there. I believe over 60 people were murdered there.”

Gun Owners of America, which backed Trump in the 2024 election alongside most other gun-rights groups, said it hoped to work with Bondi in her new role. However, it also warned it would be watching how she performs.

“Gun owners have seen firsthand how an anti-gun Attorney General can abuse their power to undermine the Constitution,” Erich Pratt, the group’s senior vice president, said in a statement. “Pam Bondi’s confirmation is a stark reminder that we must stay vigilant to ensure she defends, rather than dismantles, our God-given rights.”

The memo, first published by Politico, lays out the administration’s basic logic for how it plans to pursue law enforcement over the next four years. It focuses on a few key areas. Those include immigration, drug enforcement, and violence against law enforcement–even though Donald Trump pardoned a slew of January 6th rioters who were convicted of assaulting police as one of his first acts in office.

“The Nation faces historic threats from widespread illegal immigration, dangerous cartels, transnational organized crime, gangs, human trafficking and smuggling, fentanyl and opioids, violence against law enforcement, terrorism, hostile nation states, and other sources,” Bondi said in the memo. “This section describes the Department’s priorities and guidance in addressing these threats, including by revising previous priorities to make additional resources available.”

However, the memo doesn’t give a detailed rundown of how much of the plan will be implemented. It doesn’t outline how the ATF is meant to shift its resources away from its traditional operations to these new priorities. Nor does it address what, if anything, will be done to enforce federal laws governing alcohol and tobacco moving forward or who will be responsible for those tasks.

The ATF is also still operating without a director, even an acting one. President Trump has not yet named a nominee for a permanent director and may not ever do so. The agency appears to currently be run by deputy director Marvin Richardson, who was previously the acting director during the early years of the Biden Administration, but the agency hasn’t responded to requests from The Reload to confirm that.

However, the memo promises to flush out the administration’s plan down the line.

“Further detailed guidance regarding these priorities, and others, will follow,” Bondi said.

Cheryl Duffy

Imagine a world where narcissists gain control of the most powerful country in the world, slowly, overtime so that hardly anyone realizes it. To gain this power over time, what if they created a system of contractors who would gain lucrative funds from Federal Government Departments and funnel these funds back to people and organizations who would help keep them in power in perpetuity.

********Then, imagine that while this is going on, they fiercely push abortion as a right, trans mutilations of children (in many cases rendering them unable to reproduce), and embrace anti-family programs within government, eroding the parental rights and responsibilities in communities all across said country**********

Once this group of narcissists achieves a drastic reduction in birthrates among the citizenry, they encourage a mass migration of foreigners into the country illegally, provides them funding, encourages anchor babies so they can stay in this country “legally.”

Now the narcissists turn to the election systems. They erode voter identification laws, implement mail-in ballot and ballot harvesting initiatives using their operatives across the country. They install fellow narcissists in state legislatures across the country to appoint ballot watchers and stuff ballot boxes with votes for their candidates. How loud and mad do you think this group of narcissists would be if someone managed to gain power in spite of all these things against them?

Imagine the gnashing of teeth as the corruption begins to be exposed, the funding is dismantled, the fake voters are deported, the voter rolls are purged of dead people, the abortion push is drastically throttled, the mutilation of children outlawed, and parental rights supported and affirmed. We are viewing it in real time and it makes me very happy!

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Missouri Democrats Cry Foul as Governor Addresses Crime Without Gun Control

Given the pro-2A majorities in Missouri’s House and Senate, there’s virtually no chance that the scant number of Democrats elected to the legislature are going to be able to pass their extensive gun control agenda. The big question this year is what, if any, bills strengthening the right to keep and bear arms will make it to Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desk.

Still, that’s not stopping some Kansas City and St. Louis-area lawmakers from complaining about Kehoe’s plan to address violent crime and its lack of anti-gun initiatives.

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The CLUEBAT can take many forms, and some people need a stronger application of it than others do.

A Pensive Trump Admits Assassination Attempt ‘Changed Something’ in Him, Feels ‘More Strongly’ About God

A somber and reflective President Trump, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol on Thursday, talked about the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.

In a rare public moment of emotion, Trump explained that the incident affirmed his belief in God.

“Honestly, it’s a mir (miracle) — It changed, it changed something in me,” the president said in a hushed tone. “I feel even stronger.”

“I believed in God, but I feel — I feel much more strongly about it. Something happened,” he added as the crowd burst into applause.

The assassination attempt in Butler turned out to be one of the most iconic moments in the history of this nation. That isn’t over-selling.

While tales of heroism and defiance in the face of threats against one’s life scatter the historical landscape of America, very few have been witnessed in real-time as they were this past summer.

During the campaign rally in question, an assassin’s bullet struck Trump’s ear, coming just centimeters from taking him out and very likely plunging a profoundly divided nation into civil conflict.

Did he run for his life? No.

The soon-to-be president dusted himself off, blood pouring down the side of his face, and demanded the American people keep fighting for the nation they love so dearly.

It led to an image that will be etched into the collective memory of this nation for decades to come.

While some have attributed Trump escaping the bullet meant to take his life as mere luck, he has long suggested that it was the guiding hand of God that helped him through.

During his inaugural speech on January 20th, the president eloquently reiterated that stance.

“Those who wished to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and, indeed, to take my life,” he said. “Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear.”

“I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason: I was saved by God to make America great again.”

It’s hard to argue. A nation founded by those who believed in the Creator is experiencing a second revolution and resurgence under a man whose life was spared — it’s hard not to attribute — by the hand of God.

Trump, at the National Prayer Breakfast, also vowed “to bring religion back” and reminded the American people, “If it was up to Democrats, I would not be in a good place.”

Perhaps that was another allusion to the assassination attempt(s) or the resistance party’s unceasing efforts to put him in jail.

BLUF:
On Friday, all overseas USAID missions are to be shut down. For now, the gravy train is over, but given how they were able to hide what is arguably a covert piece of state-run media that targeted a president, what else is buried in these file grants? DOGE will find out.

Wait, USAID Was Involved in Donald Trump’s Impeachment?

USAID will effectively shut down on Friday. Most of the staff will be furloughed as it’s absorbed into the State Department. Under the president’s direction, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency unearthed a web of corruption, waste, and fraud that wasn’t necessarily shocking but jarring, nonetheless. Democrats are livid that this agency is being gutted, and we may know why. They seem to have subsidized and played a significant role in the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump.

The agency appears to have been pulling the strings of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which was cited multiple times by the CIA whistleblower that sparked the quid pro quo circus surrounding Trump, Ukraine, and military aid. Independent journalists Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag did a deep-dive into this sordid government web, where the purpose of OCCRP wasn’t your usual investigative journalism—USAID seems to have had massive sway regarding agenda, hiring practices, and mission.

This story on Public ruffled the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s feathers, which threatened Shellenberger and company with a lawsuit, claiming their premise was false and defamatory. The second part is a lengthy sifting through of what USAID’s relationship is with OCCRP, the latter of which is trying to create degrees of separation. Even then, USAID officials offered statements that cast severe doubt on the OCCRP’s supposed independence, which even outlets like ProPublica admit. Drop Site News, an outlet helmed by former Intercept reporters, did well to piece together this seedy relationship. They, too, have been slapped with threats of a lawsuit. It’s quite the read here, folks. And given what we know about the waste and fraud from USAID, it was the perfect vehicle for the Deep State and other anti-Trump staffers at government agencies to farm this out (via Public):

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Leak Shows ATF Continues to Disregard Court Orders on FRTs

The ATF is still informing law enforcement agencies that FRTs are machineguns.

In a recent Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) leak released by AmmoLand News and Gun Owners of America (GOA), the government agency shared its fears about 3D-printed machinegun conversion devices (MCD), but not everything the ATF listed is an MCD.

The ATF included the Super Safe AK in its documents, claiming it was in a drop-in auto-sear (DIAS). The issue with that designation is that the Super Safety is not a machinegun or an MCD. It is a forced reset trigger (FRT), and the Bureau might be violating a court order by designating the device as a machinegun in its January 15, 2025, documentation.

Each time a shooter uses the AK Super Safe, they must pull the trigger. The statute definition of a machinegun is a firearm that expels more than one round per function of the trigger. For each function of the trigger, the Super Safety only expels a single round. It does not fit the definition of a machinegun as defined under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). The Supreme Court has already ruled that the ATF cannot change the statutory definition of a machinegun in the Cargill case.

The Cargill case involved a bump stock. SCOTUS found that since a shooter must pull the trigger between each round, a bump stock is not a machinegun. The Cargill case has been referenced in NAGR v. Garland, which challenged the ATF’s definition of FRTs as machineguns. In that case, the judge found that only one round is expelled per trigger function. The judge issued an injunction against the ATF from taking enforcement actions against the owners and manufacturers of FRTs. Yet, the ATF is still informing law enforcement agencies that FRTs are machineguns.

The ATF also refers to the AK Super Safe as the AK-DIAS. The AK-DIAS is not the same as the AK Super Safe. The AK-DIAS is a separate project and is a machinegun conversion device. It does convert a semi-automatic AK into a fully automatic firearm. The AK Super Safe engages the safety between every round making it impossible to fire automatically. It appears that the ATF is trying to conflate the two different devices which could lead to confusion amongst law enforcement, and the false arrest of Americans for possessing something that is completely legal.

This situation isn’t the first time the ATF rebelled against the courts or the White House. The ATF was criticized for disregarding an executive order demanding that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) positions be eliminated. The order explicitly stated that those employees should be placed on administrative leave, and agencies should not try to hide them. The ATF did the opposite of the order. Lisa T. Boykin was the ATF’s “Chief Diversity Officer” responsible for implementing DEI at the Bureau. After President Trump issued the order, her title was changed to “Senior Executive.”

The ATF also recently came under fire for disregarding multiple court orders blocking the pistol brace rule. In that case, the ATF told a Gun Owners of America (GOA) member that their CZ Scorpion equipped with a brace would have to be registered with the NFA division of the ATF and pay a $200 stamp fee, or they could be charged with a federal felony. The ATF said that even though the rule was blocked, they could interpret the statute however they wanted. GOA forced the issue, and the ATF finally issued a retraction.

The situation is similar in this case. Even though the courts have barred the ATF from taking action against FRTs by a permanent injunction, they seem to be doing just that. Many view the Bureau as an out-of-control rogue government agency that ignores the law and does what it wants to do. This situation doesn’t instill confidence in those running the ATF, including the default head of the Bureau, Marvin Richardson.

Some have campaigned for Richardson to become the permanent head of the ATF, but this situation is the third time in a month that the ATF has disregarded a Presidential or court order. It leads many to wonder if Richardson is complacent or incompetent.