I joined Chris Jansing today to discuss potential leads investigators may be following in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Terrible situation. My heart goes out to the family. You can watch the story here.
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We covered a lot in this 90-minute podcast. —ATF and its politics, and why I think the acronym could stand for “America’s Toughest Feds”;—How meeting Scott Pickett was one of the luckiest things to ever happen to me;—The importance of leadership to policing and how it is evolving;—The importance of mentors;—Why the men and women
It’s NYE. Don’t shoot!! I spoke to reporter Pat Loeb about America’s long history with celebratory gunfire. Listen to the KYW Newsradio story here or read the transcript below. A Warning for Revelers Philadelphia was one of the first cities in the country — in the colonies, actually — to outlaw celebratory gunfire. But every
“Let me guess…this isn’t about the alcohol or tobacco.” That awesome line is delivered by the global arms dealer played by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 movie “Lord of War,” when he is approached by ATF agents. In reality, while ATF does a lot to prevent the illegal smuggling of firearms out of America, it
I know how to build bombs. I could teach you (but I’d have to charge).* Is that legal? I read The Anarchist Cookbook as a kid. (Let’s leave it at that!) Thankfully, I had sense enough not to try anything in it. Years later, as an ATF agent, I’d see that book countless times on
A man brazenly robbed a casino in Las Vegas last month and fled on a bicycle. Ocean’s 11, he’s not! To help answer some questions about the law in Nevada, I joined Latoya Silmon to discuss “open carry.”
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I’ve always been a proud West Virginian so I was particularly upset to learn that the National Guard soldiers ambushed in DC were from my home state. On Thanksgiving day, I joined a panel hosted by Christina Ruffini to discuss preliminary details of this despicable crime. I spoke about the law of firearms and foreign-born
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I debated whether to start this post with the porn…or Andy Griffith. Mayberry won. I’ve always loved The Andy Griffith Show. There are so many classic episodes! (Did you know Barney Fife carried a machinegun in an episode? I’m saving that one for a future post.) One of the best episodes was the “Citizen’s Arrest”
I know a lot of slang terms for firearms: gat, heater, strap, piece, jammy, roscoe, iron, chopper, smoke wagon, hog leg. Those are just the ones I can come up with off the top of my head from my own experience. If I Google it, I find a couple more I’ve heard before, like boom
Gun crime feels like a modern problem. Some days it dominates headlines. But one of my favorite aspects of studying the law is its history, and it reveals that crimes committed with firearms are nothing new. The earliest case we cover in my Second Amendment class at William S. Boyd School of Law, University of
