“It’s a Sicilian message”

“Complete and total shock.” Neighbors speak about the Provo man killed by the FBI

PROVO, Utah (ABC4) — On Wednesday morning, Provo resident Craig Robertson was shot and killed by the FBI after allegedly threatening to kill President Biden. ABC4 spoke with his neighbors to get a closer look at how neighbors and friends perceived him.

Robertson was described by neighbors as an older church-going man. He was reportedly in his late 70s, and barely mobile. According to neighbors, Robertson used a hand-carved walking stick just to get out of a chair and move around.

One neighbor, Connor Bunch, said Robertson was a weird old guy, just like any other weird old guy.

“He would say funny things sometimes, but I never thought anything of it because old people say weird things all the time,” Bunch said. “You know, everyone has someone in their life, some old person in their life that says whacky things, so I didn’t think anything of it.”

Bunch also said at one time Robertson noticed that there was an old lady at church who wanted a ramp built for her trailer so she could get in and out more easily, so he organized volunteers to come and build the lady a ramp.

“It was a positive experience, That’s one of the only memories that I have of [Robertson]. I never really was friends with [him] or talked to him that much, but he just seemed like a decent guy to me,” Bunch said. “It’s really surprising to see that something like this would happen.”

Another neighbor, Travis Lee Clark, said Robertson was the financial clerk in their ward for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for nearly a decade. Clark said at the time he was the executive secretary so he knew him pretty well.

“It’s absolutely unbelievable, it’s a complete and total shock. I can’t believe it happened.”

According to Clark, Robertson was a great guy, a woodworker, and was always working on toys or rocking horses for kids. At the time of his death, he was reportedly in the process of building a bed for his adult son Sean whom he took care of.

“He was not anyone that anybody would ever look at or regard as a threat in any way,” Clark said.

Clark said most members of the community are worried about Robertson’s son Sean. He is reportedly disabled and blind and was living with his father who was his primary caretaker. A few weeks ago he reportedly suffered a stroke and wasn’t living at home at the time of the incident but lived there usually.

According to Clark, while Robertson was political, and collected guns, the posts he saw on Facebook were not the man he knew.

“He was very political, very pro-second amendment, he loved his guns and he loved woodworking as a hobby, but I never saw anything that indicated that he might be violent,” Clark said. “He could be kind of [a] curmudgeonly old guy […] but [a] very lovable big teddy bear of a guy.”

Clark said he believes Robertson may have just let himself get carried away on social media.

“I can’t imagine that he could either physically or mentally act on any of that at all. So I think it’s just a tragedy like this, an abject tragedy that got out of hand,” Clark said.

Around 6:15 a.m., FBI agents attempted to serve an arrest and search warrant at his Provo residence when the raid led to the shooting and killing of Robertson.

Robertson had allegedly posted multiple threats of violence toward President Biden, Vice President Harris, and New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Investigators had deemed the threats as credible.

Our Nightmare is Their Utopia

The United States is just waiting on divorce papers, the separation is already here.

In the part of this nation controlled by communists like Antifa and BLM a defense attorney can openly declare herself to be a member of Antifa and (during a civil suit between Antifa and longtime Antifa nemesis Andy Ngo) tell the jury that she will remember their faces long after the trial and that isn’t considered jury tampering, obstruction of justice or threatening a jury.

How is that any different from a defense attorney looking at the jury and saying: “I work for a powerful crime family and they know where each of you live.” ?

In the same part of this divided nation, by the same political ideology, a former president and front-running candidate for the presidency can be tried on felony charges (during the campaign, not the two years before the campaign) for saying that he believed the election was stolen and for employing the tactic, openly utilized by the Democrats, of challenging the electors.

What is free speech to the right is deemed a felony to the left.

What is legally challenging an election to the right is an insurrection to the left.

This isn’t about fair, or right, or justice. This is the playbook; the time-honored communist procedure. The obvious injustice and amazing lawlessness of their actions are intended to drive the opposition mad. This is why standing behind Trump is important, because he does exactly the same thing to them. Every time he wins, they lose their mind and that doesn’t matter whether it’s in an election or in court.

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August 10

1030 – The army of the Byzantine emperor, Romanos III Argyros is defeated by the forces of  the moslem Mirdasid rulers of Aleppo. near Azaz, Syria.

1519 – Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships set sail from Seville down the mouth of the Guadalquivir River to complete preparations for a westward voyage to the Molucca “Spice Islands”.

1755 – Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.

1776 – Word that the 2nd Continental Congress of the colonies in America had issued a Declaration of Independence reaches London.

1809 – The city of Quito declares independence from Spain.

1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.

1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.

1861 – Southwest of Springfield, Missouri around the area where Wilson’s Creek flows through the Oak Hills, a mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat an attacking Union force, but are unable to consolidate the victory and the Union forces retreat to Springfield.

1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing aspirin.

1920 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI’s representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the victorious Allies.

1944 – U.S. forces secure the island of Guam 20 days after invading to recapture it.

1945 – Emperor Hirohito intervenes in an impasse in his Supreme Council  and orders it to accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. The council transmits acceptance with the proviso that it “does not comprise any demand that prejudices the prerogatives of the Emperor as sovereign ruler” to the Japanese ambassadors at Switzerland and Sweden for relay to the Allied powers. President Truman orders a halt to further use of nuclear weapons without his express authority, and negotiations begin on how the surrender will proceed.

1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut

1954 – The groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held at Massena, New York.

1961 – The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million gallons of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and concealment

1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson’s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24 year old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested for the “Son of Sam” series of murders in the New York City area

1988 – President Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

1995 – Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City

1999 – An neo-Nazi attacking the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, wounds 5 people and murders a mail carrier as he flees.

2001 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-105 to the International Space Station, carrying the 3rd relief crew of astronauts.

2018 – Horizon Air employee Richard Russell hijacks and takes off one of the company’s planes from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, flying it for more than an hour before crashing and killing himself on Ketron Island in Puget Sound.

2020 – A derecho – a straight line wind storm – sweeps through eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana becoming the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history, killing 3 people in Iowa and 1 in Indiana with damage totaling over $11 billion.

Utah Man Accused of Threatening President Shot and Killed During FBI Attempt to Serve Warrant

74-year-old Craig Deleeuw Robertson of Provo, Utah, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning as the FBI attempted to serve a warrant at his home. According to reports, Robertson was armed and had made multiple threats against President Joe Biden, who was traveling to the state later in the day.

The shooting happened around 6:15 am local time as agents attempted to serve search and arrest warrants at Robertson’s home.

Video recorded by neighbors, and obtained by CBS News, showed the raid, during which apparent flashbangs were seen. One neighbor told CBS News they heard about six gunshots and said the man’s body was eventually brought out to the street.

A criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Utah and obtained by CBS News details graphic threats gathered during an FBI investigation against a number of public officials. The suspect named in the complaint, Craig Deleeuw Robertson, was charged with three federal counts, including threats against a president. Authorities have not publicly confirmed the man who was killed is the man named in the complaint.

Online posts also showed an intent to kill Mr. Biden, the complaint said. In a post dated Aug. 6, Robertson allegedly wrote, “I hear Biden is coming to Utah,” and that he was “cleaning the dust off his M24 sniper.” The complaint showed photos of the suspect with a long-range rifle and a type of camouflage known as a ghillie suit.

As news of the raid emerged, so, too, came details of numerous online posts allegedly made by Robertson threatening Joe Biden and numerous other officials, though neighbors described a man who was elderly and frail.

Neighbors described Robertson as a frail, elderly man — his online profile put his age as 74 — who walked with the aid of a hand-carved stick. Though he regularly carried guns, they said he didn’t seem a threat.

“There’s no way that he was driving from here to Salt Lake City, setting up a rifle and taking a shot at the president — 100% no way,” said neighbor Andrew Maunder outside the church across from Robertson’s street.

Still, the posts allegedly made by Robertson are disturbing.

Robertson posted online Monday that he had heard Biden was coming to Utah and he was planning to dig out a camouflage suit and begin “cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle,” a post that came after months of graphic online threats against several public figures, according to court documents. Robertson referred to himself as a “MAGA Trumper,” a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, and also posted threats against top law enforcement officials overseeing court cases against Trump. …

Robertson also referenced a “presidential assassination” and also posted threats against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and New York Attorney General Letitia James, authorities said.

“The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!” authorities say Robertson wrote in a September 2022 Facebook post included in the filings. No attorney was immediately listed for Robertson in court documents and family members of Robertson could not be immediately reached for comment through publicly available phone numbers.

Per reports, the FBI opened their investigation into Robertson in March after he made threats against Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg following Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump.

“I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected,” the post read in part, according to the complaint.

Neighbors also provided video of the raid.

Gov. Lee sets parameters for special session on the Second Amendment, public safety

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Gov. Bill Lee’s office released the topics of legislation for a special session that would take on public safety in tandem with Second Amendment rights.

The document lists 18 different topics from mental health resources to juvenile justice reform.

This special session on Aug. 21 follows The Covenant School shooting back in March that claimed lives — including three children.

Critics had hoped the session would focus on guns and what they call sensible gun reform. The governor, however, intends to focus on the state’s broken mental health and juvenile justice systems.

Near the end of the regular session, Gov. Bill Lee proposed a bill that would have allowed extreme risk orders of protection or so-called red flag laws. The bill would have made it easier for a judge to take away someone’s guns if they are deemed a threat to themselves or others. But the Republican supermajority killed the bill.

Here are the parameters of the special session this August:

  • mental health resources providers, commitments or services;
  • school safety plans or policies;
  • offenses of committing mass violence or threatening to commit acts of mass violence;
  • reports from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation regarding human trafficking;
  • identification of individuals arrested for felonies;
  • law enforcement’s access to information about individuals who are subject to mental health commitment;
  • information about victims of violent offenses;
  • stalking offenses;
  • measures encouraging the safe storage of firearms, which do include the creation of penalties for failing to safely store firearms;
  • temporary mental health orders of protections, which must be initiated by law enforcement, must require a due process hearing, must require the respondent to undergo an assessment for suicidal or homicidal ideation, must require that an order of protection be reevaluated at least 180 days and must not permit ex parte orders;
  • the transfer of juvenile defendants age 16 and older to courts with criminal jurisdiction, which must include appeal rights for the juveniles and the prosecuting authorities;
  • limiting the circumstances in which juvenile records may be expunged;
  • blended sentencing for juveniles;
  • offenses related to inducing or coercing a minor to commit an offense;
  • the structure of operations of state and local courts
  • making appropriations sufficient to provide funding for any legislation

Another in the ‘You Can’t Make This Up’ category.
I advise a different sort of ‘loud noise maker’, something along the lines of that lady’s .357.

Police in Democrat-Run Oakland Urge Residents to Use Airhorns if Targeted by Criminals

Police in Democrat-run Oakland, California, are urging residents to use airhorns as a way of sounding an alarm when criminals strike amid a surge in crime.

Crime has risen to a point where police are not only advising the purchase of airhorns but also the placement of “security bars to…doors and windows,” CNN noted.

Burglaries in the city are up 41 percent “and robberies by more than 20 percent.”

Mayor-elect Sheng Thao speaks during a press conference at City Hall in downtown Oakland, California, on November 23, 2022. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

Oakland resident Toni Bird indicated that she followed the advice of police and now has three airhorns.

Bird said, “The types of crime that we’re seeing feel much more violent and the consequences feel much more severe. And it feels like the people that are being targeted are people who are vulnerable.”

On Sunday, July 30, 2023, a 75-year-old Oakland woman was home alone and armed with more than an airhorn when two alleged armed intruders entered her home.

The woman had a .357 Magnum revolver, which she used to fire one shot at the alleged intruders, KTVU reported. The alleged intruders fired multiple shots then fled the scene.

The woman was not injured and her daughter described her as “Superwoman.”

ILLINOIS 5TH CIRCUIT COURT REVERSES, REMANDS FOID CARD CHALLENGE CASE

BELLEVUE, WA – The Illinois 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has finally reversed and remanded a lower court ruling in a case which could determine whether the Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card requirement is constitutional.

The Second Amendment Foundation notes this will be the third go-round for the case in White County Circuit Court, but it could ultimately end up before the Illinois State Supreme Court, noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. The case was brought and funded by SAF and the Illinois State Rifle Association.

The five-page order was unanimous, with Justices John B. Barberis and Barry L. Vaughan concurring with Justice Thomas M. Welch, who delivered the opinion.

Noting that, “The State has filed a motion for summary relief arguing that the basis of the court’s dismissal—that it was impossible for Brown to comply with the statute—is not one of the bases upon which a charge may be dismissed before trial,” Justice Welch confirmed the defendant, Vivian Claudine Brown “agrees that the cause should be remanded.”

“We’re delighted the courts will finally have an opportunity to hear arguments in the actual case which challenge the constitutionality of the FOID card,” Gottlieb said. “Hopefully, this time around, we won’t see the case bogged down by more procedural issues which have allowed the court to avoid addressing the main issue at hand, which is whether the FOID card requirement actually passes constitutional muster.”

The case dates back to when Brown was originally charged with unlawful possession of a firearm without also possessing a FOID card, in May 2017.

“This case has been bouncing around for six years,” Gottlieb noted, “and it is high time to move forward.”

Mythology II: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Oppenheimer.

The film Oppenheimer has made a lot of noise in the run-up to the anniversaries this month of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and not just from Christopher Nolan’s bombastic soundtrack. As happens every year, these anniversaries prompt debate over the the decision to use atomic weapons, and whether they were necessary to end the war with Imperial Japan.

The film itself seems timed to influence those debates. As Axios reported over the weekend, it has at least stirred controversy in Japan, although perhaps not exactly as its producers intended:

“Oppenheimer” has generated backlash in Japan, for what critics argue is its failure to fully grapple with the destructive reality of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and its celebration of the “father of the atomic bomb.”

Why it matters: While the film does chronicle J. Robert Oppenheimer’s guilt over the deployment of the weapon he helped create, it doesn’t truly show “what happened under the mushroom cloud,” Keiko Tsuyama, a former staff writer for Kyoto News who covered the aftermath of the bombing in Nagasaki, tells Axios.

It has also been deeply uncomfortable for some Japanese people and Japanese Americans to see the development of weapons that killed upwards of 200,000 people in 1945 become part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Part of this aims at Warner’s efforts to promote the tongue-in-cheek “Barbenheimer” social-media memes, which the living survivors understandably find offensively trivializing. Some of this, however, comes from efforts in Japan and the US to strip the decision to use the bombs from the context of the war, especially in the way Imperial Japan itself conducted its genocidal campaigns and their refusal to deal with the consequences and realities of their own choices.

The film contributes to this revisionist impulse, either intentionally or accidentally. In a scene between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Harry Truman after the war, Oppenheimer laments that “I feel I have blood on my hands,” an anecdote taken directly from the biography American Prometheus on which the film is based. Truman calls Oppenheimer a “crybaby” behind his back after trying to ease his conscience by reminding Oppenheimer that the decision to use the bombs was Truman’s.

The film, clearly sympathetic to that perspective, fails to explain why Truman made that choice, other than as a decision based on choosing between dead Americans and dead Japanese. That in itself is enough of a legitimate wartime calculation, but the issue was far more complicated than that, and even more complicated than calculations about the cost of an invasion.

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Federal District Court issues Temporary Restraining Order on Hawaii’s ‘new’ Concealed Carry law.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.hid.165717/gov.uscourts.hid.165717.66.0.pdf

The TRO Motion is GRANTED to the extent that the following
provisions are enjoined:
-the portions of § 134-A(a)(1) that prohibit carrying firearms
in parking areas owned, leased, or used by the State or a
county which share the parking area with non-governmental
entities, are not reserved for State or county employees,
or do not exclusively serve the State or county building;
-the entirety of §§ 134-A(a)(4) and (a)(12);
-the portions of § 134-A(a)(9) prohibiting the carrying of
firearms in beaches, parks, and their adjacent parking
areas; and
-the portion of § 134-E that prohibits carrying firearms on
private properties held open to the public.

 

Getting it gooder and harder in the San Francisco Bay Area

In the San Francisco Bay Area, we are seeing a lot of social media videos, both homebrew and news reports, of people responding to the breakdown of law and order with heartrending stories about what a nightmare they live in.

Here’s the crying woman who was assaulted by a drug-addled bum as she carried groceries, scared to death to leave her house after dark:

 

While the breakdown of law and order affects single white women, don’t think it doesn’t affect anyone else. Fact is, blacks and minorities are the hardest hit. It would be fascinating to see the New York Times finally have a story to hang on to that famous knee-jerk headline interpretation of events any time anything negative happens.

Imagine that — preferring to take one’s chances with the Chicom rulers instead of the lawless chaos of San Francisco. It certainly affirms writer Robert Young Pelton’s observation that the foremost human right is personal security.

The sense of doom and misery is all over, rolling in in daily reports, — not only can one not walk out at night in either San Francisco, or Oakland, one can’t walk out and around in the waterspanning transport beneath the two cities either:

The tales of misery continue and continue.

City officials, such as San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, as well as now-ousted district attorney Chesa Boudin, pretty well are in denial about a problem. Breed says it’s bad press, while Boudin said it was all in people’s heads, pulling out a data salad to “prove” that crime was not so bad and claiming that feeling unsafe was only a “feeling.” What an insult to the young woman who was assaulted by the vicious foul-mouthed bum outside the grocery store.

Others, such as San Francisco wokester supervisor Hillary Ronen, claim the mayhem and chaos and insecurity is “a national problem” so the city’s ruling class can’t be held accountable.

Still others say the solution is more money for homeless “programs” including more shelter space:

But there’s no question it’s about city leadership. In the non-city run Presidio park area, which is administered by the federal authorities, things are different:

The astonishing thing here though, is that we never see the city shift from left to right, and very rarely do we ever see voter holding anyone accountable.

The first white young woman in the TikTok video, based on what’s been written by others in the comments section, apparently votes progressive will continue to do so.

I can’t tell how the distressed black Oakland woman seeking to flee plans to vote, and it’s possible she may vote differently than most black voters in Oakland have in the past, but black voters in general are the progressive bloc’s most reliable voter base, and that’s countrywide. Odds are higher that she won’t change the way she votes when she finds safe haven elsewhere.

When we talk about a broken political system, it may be that people who are unable to change their voting patterns no matter what happens to them, even if they are driven out of their cities or terrified of going out at night, may be what makes it broken. The one instance of change that we did see — the ouster of Boudin a couple years ago — was driven by Asian voters in a small turnout election, where a liberal alternative was available, and Silicon Valley money was behind the effort.

Maybe the only way for anything to change in the city is for a law-and-order progressive, or at least someone who can fool the public long enough that that is what he or she is, until she can get into office. New York’s Eric Adams got in this way — and he hasn’t made things much better. That, too, creates a looping broken system.

Anything that can’t go on, though, won’t. For decades, shareholders and board member in companies refused to rock the boat — but somehow that eventually changed, and perhaps that dynamic may repeat in the Bay Area’s failed blue cities. Maybe it is a very long, extended process and we are still upstream of the falls.

But that it doesn’t happen with significant speed is a political paradox that voters cannot hold their elected officials accountable and demand results by voting them out. They just make TikTok videos to complain about the mayhem, or else just flee the city, their progressive voting patterns intact.

It cries out for some kind of real sociological study as to why this strange dynamic is happening — whether the videos suggest change in the air, or just more of the same complacency and paralysis and satisfaction with failed solutions. Right now, I don’t know the answer to this, but you can bet a lot of people are beating their brains out on the political to find out exactly why.

Uvalde shooter’s cousin arrested for alleged threats ‘to do the same thing’

The cousin of Uvalde mass shooter Salvador Ramos has been arrested after allegedly threatening to follow in his footsteps.

Nathan Cruz, 17, faces a felony charge of making a terroristic threat to the public and a misdemeanor charge of making a terroristic threat to a family member.

According to KSAT, police in San Antonio, Texas arrived on scene Monday after receiving a tip from a member of Cruz’s family. The caller, later identified as his mother, stated that Cruz had told his sister he wanted to “do the same thing” as Ramos. She added that he “threatened to shoot her in the head and stated he would ‘shoot the school’.” Cruz, whose family home is situated across the street from an elementary school, allegedly highlighted the fact that classes would be “starting soon.”

Cruz’s mother also disclosed that she had heard him speaking on the phone with a man earlier Monday morning, and claimed that during the conversation, he “attempted to acquire an AR-15 through an illegal private sale.”

As CNN reports, Cruz’s mother was “especially concerned” because he was “currently on probation [and] was intoxicated at the time.”

Following his arrest, Cruz was transported to Bexar County Jail, where his bond was set at $160,000. He “denied making any threats.”

It has been more than a year since Ramos shot his grandmother in the face before carrying out the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that took the lives of 19 children and two adults. First responders were criticized for their lack of action, which allowed Ramos to enter the school, barricade himself in a classroom, and kill mercilessly. He was ultimately shot dead by a law enforcement officer, but only after perpetrating the attack.

In the months since, members of Ramos’ have spoken out, offering their apologies and questioning what they could have done to prevent the incident. Ramos’ father even went so far as to say, “He should’ve just killed me … instead of doing something like that to someone.”

August 9

480BC – The Persian emperor Xerxes receives the response by King Leonidas of Sparta to his demand that the Greeks hand over their arms; Μολων  λαβέ “Come and take them!”.

48 BC – During the last Civil War of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus in central Greece and Pompey flees to Egypt.

1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa is started. It begins leaning almost as soon as it is completed.

1610 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.

1814 – The Creek nation signs the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up parts of Alabama and Georgia.

1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.

1862 – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two way ‘duplex’ telegraph.

1914 – The French Army begins its first offensive against Germany when VII Corps attacks the city of Mulhouse, ceded to Germany at the end of the Franco-Prussian war 43 years earlier.

1918 – Kermit Beahan, the bombardier on B-29 Bockscar is born in Joplin, Missouri.

1936 – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the XI Olympiad games in Berlin

1942 – Allied naval forces protecting amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised off Savo Island by a  Japanese Navy cruiser force resulting in the loss of the HMAS Canberra, USS Vincennes, USS Quincy  and USS Astoria.

1944 – The United States Forest Service releases posters featuring Smokey Bear

1945 – U.S. Army Air Force Major Charles Sweeney and crew aboard the B29 bomber Bockscar, drops “Fat Man” atomic bomb #F-31 on their secondary target, Nagasaki after the primary target of Kokura is obscured by clouds and smoke

1969 – Followers of Charles Manson murder actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

1974 – President Nixon resigns from office. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in to become the 38th President.

2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and rioting in the city.

Indiana police say Salem woman shot and killed man as he held gun to husband’s head

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Police said a southern Indiana woman shot and killed a man who was holding a gun to her husband’s head.

According to a news release from Indiana State Police, the Washington County Sheriff’s Department said the incident started around 6:30 p.m. Monday in the 7700 block of Organ Springs Road in Salem when officers responded to a 911 call.

Police said officers found 45-year-old Michael Chastain in the front yard with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Saint Vincent Hospital in Salem, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators said Chastain drove through the front yard, grabbed the homeowner, forced him to the ground and pointed a gun at his head. The homeowner’s wife saw it happen and shot Chastain with her handgun.

The investigation continues, and the case will eventually be turned over to the Washington County Prosecutor’s Office, according to the news release.

Investigators with Indiana State Police told WDRB News that Chastain is well-known in the area, and has a criminal background. He dated the homeowner’s daughter, but she no longer lives at the home, so police aren’t sure why he targeted her father.

FPC Files For Injunction Against Washington “Large Capacity” Magazine Ban

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that it has filed a motion for summary judgment in its Sullivan v. Ferguson lawsuit, which challenges Washington’s unconstitutional ban on common firearm magazines. The motion can be viewed at FPCLegal.org.

“There can be no serious dispute that the magazines Washington bans are ‘in common use’—there are hundreds of millions of them [] owned by tens of millions of Americans as private surveys and industry and government data all corroborate,” argues the motion. “Indeed, courts across the country have repeatedly found that these magazines are commonly owned and widely chosen by Americans for self-defense and other lawful purposes. That fact decides this case, and Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment in their favor.”

“There are few things more offensive than politicians arbitrarily preventing people from possessing the tools they deem necessary to protect their lives, loved ones, and communities,” said Cody J. Wisniewski, FPCAF’s General Counsel and Vice President of Legal, and FPC’s counsel in this case. “The magazines that Washington bans are constitutionally protected and it does not have the power to infringe on the rights of Washingtonians by banning them. We’re hopeful that the Court will see the error of Washington’s ways.”

FPC is joined in this lawsuit by the Second Amendment Foundation.

Homeowner acted in self-defense when shooting suspect breaking into garage, Fort Dodge police say
Police say the shooter called 911 on Wednesday, May 31 and claimed a male was breaking into the garage of his home.

FORT DODGE, Iowa — The Webster County Attorney’s Office says a man acted in self-defense when shooting someone in May who was trying to break into their garage, Fort Dodge police said in an update.

Police say the shooter called 911 on Wednesday, May 31 and claimed a male was breaking into the garage of his home on 6th Ave South shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday. He told them he had also shot the alleged intruder.

Officers and medics on the scene pronounced the man dead. He was later identified as 44‐year‐old Fort Dodge resident Bryan W. Gambill.

“Both the Webster County Attorney’s Office and the Fort Dodge Police Department concluded that no charges would be filed in this case because the homeowner was acting in self‐defense,” Fort Dodge PD said on Monday.