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FILE – In this June 28, 2020 file photo, Mark and Patricia McCloskey emerged from their St. Louis mansion with guns after protesters walked onto their private street. The couple, who were criminally charged for the incident, will make the case in a recorded message Monday night, Aug. 24 in their opening night speech of the Republican National Convention that they had a â€œGod-given rightâ€ to defend themselves and their property. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File) MOSTP322 MOSTP322

August 24, 2020 at 9:45 am

St. Louis couple, in RNC speech, defend show of weapons

The couple, who armed themselves as protesters marched through their St. Louis neighborhood in June, will talk about safety, security and the right to bear...

FILE – In this Aug. 5, 2019, file photo, Greg Zanis, of Aurora, Ill., stands in silhouette as he prepares crosses to place in memory of victims at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas. Now on hospice care, Zanis, continues to struggle against the terminal bladder cancer he was diagnosed with in March, was treated to a motorcade of well-wishers in his driveway for over two hours, Friday, May 1, 2020, in Aurora. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) CER102 CER102

May 4, 2020 at 10:57 am

Illinois man who put crosses at sites of mass shootings dies

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man man who spent years making crosses and bringing them to the sites of mass shootings and other disasters...

A tribute is displayed Monday, April 20, 2020, at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, following a weekend shooting rampage by a gunman, disguised as a police officer, that killed multiple people including an RCMP constable. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP) HAL106 HAL106

April 20, 2020 at 5:10 am

Rampage leaves 18 dead in Canada’s worst mass shooting VIEW

TORONTO (AP) — Police fanned out across more than a dozen crime scenes Monday after a rampage by a gunman disguised as a police officer...

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The Atlantic Denture Clinic, owned by Gabriel Wortman, is guarded by police in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on Monday, April 20, 2020. Wortman, a gunman disguised as a police officer went on a 12-hour rampage in the Canadian province beginning late Saturday, shooting people in their homes, setting fires and killing multiple people, including a policewoman, in the deadliest such attack in the countryâ€™s history. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP) HAL101 HAL101

April 19, 2020 at 6:55 am

16 killed in shooting rampage, deadliest in Canadian history VIEW

TORONTO (AP) — A gunman disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires in a rampage across the Canadian province...

Nation & World

People wait in a line to enter a gun store in Culver City, Calif., Sunday, March 15, 2020. Coronavirus concerns have led to consumer panic buying of grocery staples, and now gun stores are seeing a similar run on weapons and ammunition as panic intensifies. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) CARC107 CARC107

March 30, 2020 at 1:20 pm

Trump administration rules gun shops ‘essential’ amid virus

The Trump administration has ruled that gun shops are considered “essential” businesses that should remain open as other businesses are closed to try to stop...

March 16, 2020 at 11:09 am

Virus fears fuel spike in sales of guns and ammunition VIEW

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The world's largest gun store, in metro Atlanta, has had lines that are six and eight people deep. A gun store...

Business

February 28, 2020 at 1:20 pm

Mass killings database: Workplace shootings remain rare

The mass shooting at a brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the 13th in the U.S. since 2006. Workplace mass shootings remain a rare event but...

January 17, 2020 at 12:53 am

Eminem drops surprise album, advocates changes to gun laws

Rapper Eminem once again dropped a surprise album, releasing “Music to Be Murdered By” on Friday — along with a video that calls for changes...

Entertainment

Greg Zanis stands outside his home in Aurora, Ill., with some of the crosses he made in 2016 to honor murder victims in Chicago that year. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS) 1527334 1527334

December 30, 2019 at 2:38 am

After making 27,000 crosses for victims of tragedies, Illinois man is calling it quits

The first cross he made was for a 6-year-old boy shot and killed in his grandparents’ home in Aurora in 1996. He has driven 850,000...

December 3, 2019 at 3:18 am

Northern Virginia county considers 2nd Amendment sanctuary resolution

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia county will consider whether it wants to join other jurisdictions and declare itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary.” Corey...

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