President Biden, in a prime-time address last week, called on Congress to ban semiautomatic “assault style” rifles – or at least raise the age for legal purchase from 18 to 21. He was reacting to the spate of horrific and heartbreaking mass shootings that killed 22 people, most of them […]
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The Texas Law That Has Banks Saying They Don’t ‘Discriminate’ Against Guns
Four years ago, JPMorgan Chase joined some of the nation’s largest banks in publicly distancing itself from the firearm industry after a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead. JPMorgan’s relationships with gunmakers “have come down significantly and are pretty limited,” Marianne Lake, then the bank’s chief financial […]
Agents follow Detroit man’s Instagram to bust him for guns, drugs, unemployment fraud, identity theft
DETROIT – Federal agents monitored a Detroit man’s Instagram account while he posted pictures of guns and drugs he wasn’t allowed to be around, claimed to be driving while high, threatened police, and tried to recruit others for an obvious unemployment fraud and identity theft scheme, according to authorities. Previous […]