Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Convicted drug felon/home invader shot, killed in Antioch, Tennessee (video).

Metro police said a resident will not face charges after he shot and killed an armed home invader late Wednesday night in Antioch.
Police said convicted drug felon Michael Shane Martin, 35, of Hickory Hollow Parkway in Antioch was wearing a mask and gloves when he tried to break into an apartment in the Brentridge complex [...]

Related Topics: Personal & Home Defense, Self Defense, Self Defense & The Law, Tennessee, Video

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Florida governor rejects gun ban for Republican convention.

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Florida Governor Rick Scott has shot down a request by Tampa’s mayor to allow local authorities to ban guns from the city’s downtown during the Republican National Convention in August.
Citing Second Amendment protections in the U.S. Constitution, Scott told Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn that conventions and guns have co-existed since the nation’s birth and [...]

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Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Law Enforcement »

Police chief of a central California city urges residents to lock up their firearms because of gang burglaries.

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The police chief of a Central California city is urging residents to secure their firearms as a way of fighting crime.
“Lock them up,” Manteca Police Chief Nick Obligacion said.
The chief says he supports the right to bear arms but would like to see more law-abiding gun owners use safes to lock up their weapons. [...]

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Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Military »

U.K. government picks STOVL jump-jet JSF variant for Future Aircraft Carriers.

The UK Government has selected the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) F35-B variant of the Lockheed Martin-built Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) for the country’s Future Aircraft Carrier programme in a major policy U-turn.
The government originally declared the first Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier would fly a version of the fighter jet requiring a catapult [...]

Related Topics: England, F-35, F35

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Russia foils alleged plot to attack 2014 Sochi Olympics in former Soviet republic.

President Dmitry Medvedev visiting the FSB Special Forces Centre in Makhachkala, Dagestan on 9 June 2009; The Presidential Press and Information Office
Russia said on Thursday it had foiled a plot by Islamist militants to stage attacks on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and in the runup to the Games in the southern Russian city.
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The [...]

Related Topics: Olympics, Russian Martial Art

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Texas doomsday bunker manufacturer talks prepping 101 (video).

For the past 14 years Scott Bales has been in the business of building bunkers, shelters that can withstand just about anything designed to keep unwelcome guests out including zombies.
“If you spend about half a million dollars on a bunker and you were going to hide there if their was a collapse you wouldn’t want [...]

Related Topics: Apocalypse, Video

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

‘Pocket calls’ burden 911 emergency response systems in New York.

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A new study found a staggering number of those apparently accidental calls in New York City are made to emergency responders, jamming up 911 lines in a city that has prided itself on its ability to respond in a crisis.
Nearly 4 million of those calls were made to the city’s emergency call centers in [...]

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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

U.S. Olympian bobsledder retires to join Special Ops.

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After serving as a fire team leader deep in the mountains of Afghanistan and toting an automatic weapon weighing more than 22 pounds when fully loaded with 200 rounds, bobsledding just wasn’t the same anymore for John Napier.
So, nearly two years after that life-changing, five-month stint with the Vermont National Guard in the [...]

Related Topics: Olympics, Special Ops

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Military »

U.S., Jordan to participate in Exercise Eager Lion 17-nation war games.

U.S. Central Command Command Sgt. Maj. Frank Grippe returns from a static line jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 during exercise Eager Lion 2011. Eager Lion 2011 is a major bilateral strategic theater cooperation exercise between Jordan and the U.S. focusing on irregular warfare, special operations and counterinsurgency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication [...]

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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Military »

U.S.’s Fisher House offers gift to U.K.’s wounded troops: $2 million toward ’sanctuary’.

British navy Capt. Stuart Borland interacts with Afghan children playing on a T-55 tank at a bazaar outside Forward Operating Base Caferetta in Now Zad, Afghanistan, June 7, 2011. Borland is the deputy chief of Regional Command Southwest. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans/Released)
Fisher House, the Maryland-based charity which provides overnight accommodation [...]

Related Topics: England, Maryland