Roger Frederick Wicker is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Mississippi,a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republican Party,Wicker was a Mississippi State Senator from 1988 to 1995 and the U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 1st congressional district from 1995 until 2007.
Jose Pimentel Ejercito Jr.,better known as Jinggoy Estrada or Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada,is a Filipino politician and film actor serving as a senator since 2022 and previously from 2004 to 2016,He is the current president pro tempore of the Senate,having been elected for the second time in 2024 and previously holding the position from 2007 to 2013,He briefly became the Acting Senate President in 2013 after Juan Ponce Enrile's resignation,Before serving in the Senate,he was the vice mayor (1988–1992) and later mayor (1992–2001) of San Juan when it was still a municipality.
Bump stocks or bump fire stocks are gun stocks that can be used to assist in bump firing,the act of using the recoil of a semi-automatic firearm to fire cartridges in rapid succession.
In the United States,open carry refers to the practice of visibly carrying a firearm in public places,as distinguished from concealed carry,where firearms cannot be seen by the casual observer. To "carry" in this context indicates that the firearm is kept readily accessible on the person,within a holster or attached to a sling. Carrying a firearm directly in the hands,particularly in a firing position or combat stance,is known as "brandishing" and may constitute a serious crime,but is not the mode of "carrying" discussed in this article.
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Kwok-Cheung Chow is a Hong Kong-born felon with ties to a San Francisco Chinatown street gang and an organized crime syndicate,including the American branch of the Hong Kong-based triad Wo Hop To and the Hop Sing Boys.
Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. A Republican,he was nominated by Ronald Reagan,and retired from the bench in November 2010 after pleading guilty to drug related charges,including a felony count for giving a stripper cocaine even though he knew she was a convicted felon.
Brian Aitken is an American marketing consultant,entrepreneur,and writer.
Gun laws in Illinois regulate the sale,possession,and use of firearms and ammunition in the state of Illinois in the United States.
Gun laws in New Jersey regulate the sale,possession,and use of firearms and ammunition in the U.S. state of New Jersey. New Jersey's firearms laws are among the most restrictive in the country.
Brian Pettyjohn is an American politician and a Republican member of the Delaware Senate,where he has represented the 19th district since 2012. He has been serving as the Senate Minority Whip since 2020. He was a member of the town council for Georgetown,Delaware from 2008 to 2010 and mayor from 2010 to 2012.
Assault weapons legislation in the United States refers to bills and laws that define and restrict or make illegal the manufacture,transfer,and possession of assault weapons. How these firearms are defined and regulated varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction;generally,this constitutes a list of specific firearms and combinations of features on semiautomatic firearms.
On July 1,2015,32-year-old Kathryn "Kate" Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father and a friend along Pier 14 in the Embarcadero district of San Francisco. She was hit in the back by a single bullet. The man who fired the gun,JoséInez García Zárate,said he had found it moments before,wrapped in cloth beneath a bench on which he was sitting,and that when he picked it up the weapon went off. The shot ricocheted off the concrete deck of the pier and struck the victim,who was about 90 feet (27m) away. Steinle died two hours later in a hospital as a result of her injuries.
Christopher Paul Hasson is a former United States Coast Guard lieutenant and self-described white nationalist who pleaded guilty to federal gun and drug crimes in 2019,and the following year was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison. Although not charged with a terrorism offense,prosecutors called Hasson a "domestic terrorist" and accused him of plotting the targeted assassinations of high-profile American politicians,media figures,and others,as well as indiscriminate terror attacks against what Hasson called "leftists in general."
The Lobby Day 2020 was a gun rights rally that took place on January 20,2020,at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond,Virginia. The rally was an extension of the Second Amendment sanctuary movement and was organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Fears of violence from neo-Nazis prompted Virginia governor Ralph Northam to declare a state of emergency ahead of the event,although the event concluded peacefully with no reports of violence.
A homemade firearm,also called a ghost gun or privately made firearm,is a firearm made by a private individual,in contrast to one produced by a corporate or government entity. The term ghost gun is used mostly in the United States by gun control advocates,but it is being adopted by gun rights advocates and the firearm industry.
Few protests took place in December 2020 and there was no large-scale demonstrations in threat of the national security law. The imprisonment of Joshua Wong,Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam on 2 December aroused attention of the International community.
The city held its first National Security Education Day after the national security law had come into force. Chief Executive Carrie Lam emphasized that the law had helped Hong Kong to emerge from the "dark violence" of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. National Security Committee Adviser Luo Huining also gave a speech. Even very young children were photographed handling toy weapons,which drew criticism.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is a United States federal law,passed in 2022. It implemented several changes to the mental health system,school safety programs,and gun control laws. Gun control laws in the bill include extended background checks for firearm purchasers under the age of 21,clarification of federal firearms license (FFL) requirements,funding for state red flag laws and other crisis intervention programs,further criminalization of arms trafficking and straw purchases,and partial closure of the gun show loophole and boyfriend loophole. It was the first federal gun control legislation enacted in 28 years.
