[ad_1] Say someone is breaking into your home. You have a gun. Can you kill them to protect yourself? Before 2008, in Wyoming, you had to try retreating before using lethal force. Things changed that year when then-Gov. Dave Freudenthal signed the state’s “castle doctrine” into law, granting an exception to a person’s legal “duty

[ad_1] The government is lying about what happened in Minneapolis last month, and it’s hurting our already-damaged democracy. Minneapolis citizens Renée Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by federal immigration officers on Jan. 7 and Jan. 24, respectively. Following both incidents, federal officials gave speeches contradicting clear video evidence. To maintain a healthy

[ad_1] The U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro has since backtracked from her earlier remarks. Gun advocates and Second Amendment supporters are criticizing recent remarks by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. The federal prosecutor stated that anyone who travels to the capital with a gun—even lawfully—can land in jail. After receiving backlash,

[ad_1] Bessent appeared before the Senate banking committee on Thursday to testify on the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s Annual Report for 2025. When Van Hollen began questioning Bessent, he first pressed him on his response to the January shooting of Pretti by multiple Border Patrol agents. BESSENT TAKES FLAK FROM DEMOCRATS OVER AFFORDABILITY IN SENATE

[ad_1] The governor of Colorado says his state should not have joined a lawsuit supporting the federal ban on gun ownership by people who use marijuana that’s now before the U.S. Supreme Court—and he personally opposes the state attorney general’s “legal position on this.” It took some by surprise when Colorado’s top prosecutor, as well

[ad_1] This excerpt is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  Donald Trump may not have been the first president to believe in conspiracy theories, but he was definitely the first candidate whose election was fueled by pandering to those who do. As his popularity soared among those on the fringe

[ad_1] It’s not often that I agree with the National Rifle Association or with President Donald Trump. But last week I found myself agreeing with both at the same time: After the shooting death of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Trump said, “You can’t walk in with guns. You can’t do that …

[ad_1] The killing of Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis has sparked a thorny conversation among gun rights groups and Trump administration officials about the second amendment and the right to carry concealed firearms at protests and demonstrations. Among the questions is which cases the movement rallies behind – and which it doesn’t.

[ad_1] It’s not often that I agree with the National Rifle Association or with President Donald Trump. But I recently found myself agreeing with both at the same time: After the shooting death of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Trump said, “You can’t walk in with guns. You can’t do that. …

[ad_1] AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro spent Tuesday morning in damage control mode after she invoked the fury of Second Amendment advocates with comments she made threatening to “jail” anyone who brings a gun into Washington D.C. During an interview Monday with her former Fox News colleague

[ad_1] A protester holds up a sign labeled “Trump is a Facist” at a protest in downtown Elmhurst on Jan. 31. (Sarah Matzkin) More than 200 people braved cold temperatures on York Street outside Elmhurst City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 25, to rally for Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse shot and killed by federal agents

[ad_1] Former GOP consultant Steve Schmidt pledged his Save America Movement would be flooding conservative news sites and MAGA websites during the upcoming midterms and the national election, reminding Second Amendment voters that President Donald Trump is no friend of gun enthusiasts. “I want to tell you what Save America is going to do about

[ad_1] Jeanine Pirro is desperately backpedaling on her threats to take away citizens’ guns after facing outrage from her own party. Pirro, appointed by Donald Trump as Washington D.C.’s top prosecutor last year, attempted to walk back incendiary remarks in which she said, “you bring a gun into the District, you’re going to jail.” “Some

[ad_1] Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has responded to backlash from Second Amendment advocates and MAGA allies after threatening jail time for anyone who enters the nation’s capital with a gun. During an interview with Fox News on Monday, Pirro said that if anyone “brings a gun into the District,

[ad_1] On the latest episode of TDR Trade to Black, presented by Flowhub, hosts Shadd Dales and Anthony Varrell walk through a week where cannabis law, politics, and market pressure all start overlapping. Joining the show is Jacob Raver, Senior Managing Associate at Dentons, who has been following the NRA-related Supreme Court case involving gun

[ad_1] United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro came under fire after saying anyone who carried a firearm in the nation’s capital should “count on going to jail” during a Monday Fox News appearance. Pirro’s comments came after the Trump administration received criticism for several comments it made about the Jan. 24

[ad_1] Department of Homeland Security uses “domestic terrorist” to control public perceptions By Ashly Lopez, February 3, 2026  In the aftermath killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security didn’t wait for investigations to finish before shaping their story. It reached for its most powerful weapon in their corner.

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[ad_1] RICHMOND, Va. (Capital News Service) — A bill that would regulate high-powered firearms has reported out of a House committee, with renewed debate over what it could mean for gun owners and public safety across the state. House Bill 217 proposes changes to Virginia’s firearm laws that supporters say would help reduce gun violence

[ad_1] A federal law enacted in 1968, 177 years after the ratification of the Second Amendment, makes it a felony, currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for an “unlawful user” of “any controlled substance” to receive or possess a firearm. It therefore aims to disarm millions of Americans who pose no plausible

[ad_1] A photo of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer over the weekend, is displayed at the shooting scene Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Adam Gray/Associated Press) The shooting of fellow gun owner Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis by a federal law enforcement officer is tragic and

[ad_1] As a former deputy prosecutor, I support law enforcement — from my local city and county officers and state troopers to the Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021. They are trained professionals who serve our community and help keep the people I love safe. I do not support the violence perpetrated on city streets

[ad_1] I wrote this essay several years ago, reflecting on Dick Lehr’s White Hot Hate and the narrowly thwarted 2016 bombing plot against a Somali immigrant community in Garden City, Kansas. Since then, public rhetoric about immigrants—and Somali communities in particular—has re-entered American political life with renewed force, sometimes echoing language and suspicions that once

[ad_1] To the editor:  The recent brouhaha about whether the Current should have published Mark Ferrante’s letters made me curious, so I went back and read them all. They were well written, and he is clearly a fervent supporter of the Trump administration (and loathes “the left”). Although I disagreed with many of his characterizations,

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[ad_1] Renee Good was killed on Jan. 7. Alex Pretti on Jan. 24. Federal agents killed both of them, and the administration labeled both of them terrorists — labels that quickly fell apart when the public learned more about each case and saw videos of the shootings. Yet it was Pretti’s death that broke the

[ad_1] Photo: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images (John Pedin/NY Daily News Archive, Mel Finkelstein/NY Daily News Archive, Bettmann Archive, Dan Cronin/NY Daily News Archive) The sharpened screwdrivers, memorable and imaginary, tell a lot of the story. Three days before Christmas 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old electrical engineer living on 14th Street, got on a downtown 2

[ad_1] Several niche, left-leaning gun advocacy groups said that since the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, they can hardly keep up with the surging demand for firearms training. With President Donald Trump sending a surge of armed federal agents into communities around the country, even more once gun-shy liberals and leftists

[ad_1] On a July day in a suburban Pittsburgh mall food court, Kevin Edler and his wife, Lex, donned their rainbow gear and waited. Families shuffled by. Teens sipped boba. Kevin’s braid trailed from his trucker hat, emblazoned with an AK-47 over a rainbow flag with “Defend Equality” in all capital letters underneath. Pittsburgh’s Public