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KFF Health News and KCUR are following the stories of people injured during the Feb. 14 mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration. Listen to how one Kansas family is coping with the trauma. Jason Barton didn’t want to attend the Super Bowl parade this year. He told a co-worker the night before that he worried about a mass shooting. But it was Valentine’s Day, his wife is a Kansas City Chiefs superfan, and he couldn’t afford to take her to games since ticket prices soared after the team won the championship in 2020. So Barton drove 50 miles from Osawatomie, Kansas, to downt...
Kaiser Health News
Washington (AFP) - A US federal judge on Wednesday set June 3 as the tentative date for the start of the trial of President Joe Biden's son Hunter on charges of illegal gun possession. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, in a court filing, set aside the weeks of June 3 and June 10 for a jury trial in Wilmington, Delaware, for the 54-year-old Hunter Biden. In October Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to the gun charges. He also faces tax evasion charges in California. The judge in that case has said he is aiming for a trial to begin on June 20. Hunter Biden faces three felony charges stemming from ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are weighing a pitch from the White House for states to toughen gun storage rules as legislation languishes in Congress. Even though many states, including California, have laws in place for safely storing guns when children are present, the Biden administration wants them to go further by requiring gun owners to secure firearms most of the time. California’s Senate passed a sweeping bill in January that would adopt the White House recommendation. State Sen. Anthony Portantino, the author of SB 53, said the idea is to make it harder for anybody, not ju...
Kaiser Health News
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers are weighing a pitch from the White House for states to toughen gun storage rules as legislation languishes in Congress. Even though many states, including California, have laws in place for safely storing guns when children are present, the Biden administration wants them to go further by requiring gun owners to secure firearms most of the time. California’s Senate passed a sweeping bill in January that would adopt the White House recommendation. State Sen. Anthony Portantino, the author of SB 53, said the idea is to make it harder for anybody, not just child...
California Healthline
A jury in New York on Friday found former top US gun lobbyist Wayne LaPierre and other executives of the influential National Rifle Association (NRA) guilty of corruption-related charges. After a week of deliberations, the jury found that LaPierre abused his position for his personal benefit and steered lucrative contracts to friends and relatives, including spending millions of organization dollars on lavish travel, private planes, expensive clothing, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a Friday statement. He was found to have caused the NRA some $5.4 million in damages and ordere...
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New York (AFP) - A jury in New York found former NRA gun lobby chief Wayne LaPierre liable Friday for corruptly mismanaging the organization. Lapierre and a senior executive of the National Rifle Association must pay a penalty of $6.35 million "for years of corruption and greed," said state attorney general Letitia James. LaPierre, facing a civil trial where he was accused of using the National Rifle Association as a personal piggy bank, was found by the jury to have cost the organization $5.4 million because of his misconduct -- although he has since repaid $1 million of that. LaPierre said ...
AFP
New York (AFP) - A jury in New York found former NRA gun lobby chief Wayne LaPierre liable Friday for corruptly mismanaging the organization, US media reported. LaPierre, who faced a civil trial where he was accused of using the National Rifle Association as a "personal piggy bank," was also found by the jury to have cost the organization $5.4 million because of his misconduct -- although he has since repaid $1 million of that. LaPierre said in January he would step down as president of the NRA, citing unspecified health reasons. New York state attorney general Letitia James brought a lawsuit...
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Houston (AFP) - A damning Justice Department report on Thursday cited "critical failures" by Texas law enforcement who waited until 21 people had been killed by a mass shooter at a school before finally intervening. Nineteen young children and two teachers were killed when a teenage gunman went on a rampage at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School in May 2022 in America's worst school shooting in a decade. Police eventually shot and killed the attacker. Investigators "identified several critical failures," the report said, and "the most significant failure was that the responding officers should hav...
AFP
New York (AFP) - The outgoing leader of the divisive US gun lobby, the NRA, is facing allegations he misappropriated funds from the organization and ran it as his personal fiefdom. Wayne LaPierre went on trial in New York on Monday accused of using the NRA as a "personal piggy bank." The case is expected to last several days. He said last week he would step down as president of the National Rifle Association, citing unspecified health reasons. "LaPierre and NRA senior management misappropriated millions of dollars to fund personal benefits, including private jets, expensive meals, and even fam...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Wayne LaPierre, the longtime head of the National Rifle Association (NRA), announced on Friday that he is resigning as leader of the US gun lobby, just days before the start of his corruption trial. The 74-year-old LaPierre cited unspecified health reasons for his decision to step down from January 31 as chief executive of the NRA. "I've been a card-carrying member of this organization for most of my adult life, and I will never stop supporting the NRA and its fight to defend Second Amendment freedom," he said in a statement, referring to the right to "keep and bear arms." "...
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