With His $12M Ad Blitz, Bloomberg Is Finally The Opponent The NRA Needed
The substance of this story was almost fit to print. We all know Mayor Bloomberg's stance on guns. He is a co-founder and head of Mayors Against Illegal Guns - a group of America's most powerful...
View ArticleDemocrats Worried About Other Democrats With Bloomberg's $12M Ad Blitz
Yesterday, we reported on Mayor Bloomberg's announcement to spend $12 million on a campaign set forth by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns to counter the NRA in battleground states. The move is the...
View ArticleBloomberg's Gun Control Group Undeterred by Congressional Inaction
With Rep. Gabrielle Gifford alongside him, President Obama called it a "pretty shameful day for Washington." Nearly five months after the massacre at Sandy Hook, the gun control package making its way...
View ArticleFirearm Deaths Are Down, But Don't Jump To Conclusions About Stop and Frisk
Today, GOP mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis released a radio ad touting his support for "pro-active police work" and blasting foes of the NYPD's controversial practice of stop and frisk. The ad...
View ArticleSenator Chuck Schumer Wants To Ban 3D Printed Guns
Have you heard of 3D printing? Well, it could be the future of almost everything. Basically, engineers have managed to take the concept of two-dimensional printing, in which ink is vertically layered...
View ArticleThis Dude Wants to Hand Out Free Shotguns to New Yorkers
When it comes to guns, New Yorkers know a thing or two. In August, people traded in 509 guns at a gun buyback program in Queens for cold hard cash; in September, monetary prizes were handed out in...
View ArticleTwo Recent Police Academy Grads Shoot and Kill a 14-Year-Old in the Bronx
Early Sunday morning two police officers, both of whom completed their training just last month, shot and killed a 14-year-old boy in south Bronx. The killing is a direct result of the Operation...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Announce the Largest Gun Bust...
The mayor and his righthand man, NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, have announced the details of the largest gun bust in the history of the city. Over 250 guns were seized, totaling nearly $160,000 in...
View ArticleNYPD Officer Arrested in an International Gun Running Ring
In a crime likely to be a pie in the face for the city police department, an NYPD officer has been arrested as part of an international gun-smuggling ring. Officer Rex Maralit and his brothers Wilfredo...
View ArticleBREAKING: Possible Gunman Spotted on the Campus of Kean University [Update]
There are reports of an armed person on the campus of Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Details are spare, but Runnin' Scared is gathering gathered all the information out there as the story...
View ArticleSuspected Gunman at the University of New Haven In Custody [UPDATE]
Update, 5:20 p.m.: The University of New Haven has lifted the lockdown after police completed their search of campus. Update, 3:22 p.m.: NBC Connecticut reports that the suspect is a University of New...
View ArticleNY's Assault Weapons Ban Is Constitutional But Ammo Restriction Is Not,...
Three weeks after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. last December, New York was the first state to pass stricter gun laws. A year later--with the political battle over gun...
View ArticlePro-Gun Groups Are So Very Annoyed at Jerome Hauer, Cuomo Official Who...
The Cuomo administration has a serious, potentially deadly laser pointer shortage. That's the only way to explain a report from the Albany Times-Union that Jerome Hauer, the state's commissioner of...
View ArticleManhattan Double Homicide Caught on Tape
The NYPD is seeking the public's help to solve a double homicide in Manhattan early Sunday morning. The shooting took place on Broadway near 151 St. in Harlem...
View ArticleYou'll Never Guess What TSA Inspectors Confiscated at NYC Airports in 2014
From expandable batons and "sword canes" to gun parts and a really terrifying-looking sickle, New York and New Jersey's Transportation Security Administration inspectors have made some interesting...
View ArticleEast Village Church Brings Gun Violence Against Children Into Focus for Holy...
Reverend Winnie Varghese leans over a bamboo cross in the yard of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, adjusting a T-shirt that hangs off the cross along with roughly 40 others, the clothes flapping in the...
View ArticleGun Rights Advocates Attack Obama's 'Politicizing' of Charleston Shooting
President Barack Obama today decried the deaths of nine people at a prayer meeting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, which caused gun rights advocates, already filling the...
View ArticleIn Wake of Mass Shootings, 'Scared' New Yorkers Apply in Droves for Handgun...
In response to the mass shootings in San Bernardino, Colorado Springs and Paris, gun merchants in and around New York City say residents are flocking to stores like never before in search of firearms....
View ArticleHow Do Theaters Plan to Handle Security for the 'Star Wars' Opening Weekend?
When a Village Voice film critic attended a recent press screening of the Will Ferrell–Mark Wahlberg buddy comedy Daddy's Home at the Regal E-Walk theater in Times Square, he was asked to open his bag...
View ArticleSetting His Sights on the NRA: Bob Greenwald’s New Documentary Takes On His...
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald is no stranger to taking on conservative billionaires and big corporations, nor to the inevitable attacks that come with this kind of work. After he released Outfoxed, about...
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