Tag: guns

NYC thief Macy’s arrested with loaded gun

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A man was arrested for shoplifting in Macy’s in Manhattan on Tuesday, police said, and busted for heat. A New York Police spokesperson said the 21-year-old was kidnapped and held by security inside the Herald Square store around 6:30 p.m. until NYPD arrived and discovered he was carrying a loaded .380 caliber pistol. Police said he has not yet been charged. The suspect lives in Brooklyn and was arrested weeks ago and charged with grand theft from another store on January 14, according to sources. Sources said he was arrested…

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4-year-old dad orders police shooting in McDonald’s car: cops

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A 4-year-old boy fired a pistol at police officers on instructions from his father during a dispute over an order at McDonald’s in Utah on Monday, officials said. The shooting occurred at a McDonald’s restaurant in Midvale, just outside Salt Lake City, when a man fired a gun at fast food workers during an argument over his order, according to the Greater Salt Lake City Unified Police Department. The adult man, who has two children in the back seat, pulled up and waited for workers to fix his order. But…

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NYPD reports that three thieves robbed a Brooklyn apartment, shooting one of its residents

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Three burglars broke into a Brooklyn apartment before one of them shot the 39-year-old in a horrific home-breaking burglary on Saturday afternoon, police said. The victim, a 39-year-old man, was answered by a knock on his door in Sheepshead Bay around 2 p.m. by a woman who claimed he had not paid his monthly dues for an unknown expense, according to police. Police said that when the resident opened the door to his apartment on Voorhees Street, two men with guns forced their way inside and demanded some of his…

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FDNY firefighter caught with gun smuggling sting

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A veteran FDNY firefighter has been arrested after allegedly purchasing an assault weapon, ammunition and parts for a “ghost gun” in Philadelphia, then transporting them to New York City, The Post has learned. Records show that Aaron B. Martin, 49, who serves on FDNY Rescue Team 4 in Queens, has been subjected to multiple charges, including possession of an assault weapon. stems from a crackdown on illegal weapons Flooding into town, Martin’s February 13 arrest was part of a multi-agency investigation into firearms trafficking involving the Queens District Attorney’s Office…

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Long Island dentist Paul Curry arrested for stockpiling illegal guns at home

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A Long Island dentist was arrested Wednesday after allegedly storing a cache of “ghost guns” inside his home that was also used as a dental clinic, police said. Officers were called to Paul Carey Massapequa’s residence after his 33-year-old secretary told authorities she saw him with a gun on the second floor of the house, according to Nassau police. “While he appeared to be angry and intoxicated, he went upstairs and his secretary heard him flap a gun,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said at a news conference Thursday.…

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Armed man arrested for threatening New York City Children’s Hospital

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A gunman was arrested after threatening to open fire at a children’s hospital in Queens on Thursday afternoon, sources said. Thomas Saxton, 34, was arrested in his car outside Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Glen Oaks around 12:10 p.m., according to law enforcement sources. Sources said Saxton was in possession of two ghost rifles – two unregistered household weapons that lack serial numbers. A search warrant of the Saxton home on Long Island revealed a cache of weapons and ammunition including several rifles, more than 1,000 rounds, 4 assault rifles,…

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Sandy Hook families settle with Remington over the school massacre

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Families of Sandy Hook victims settled a lawsuit Tuesday with the manufacturer of the AR-15 automatic rifle used to kill 20 children and 6 employees in the 2012 massacre. The nine families filed a class action lawsuit in 2014 against Remington Arms, which made the gun Adam Lanza used in the December 12 mass shooting, alleging that the gunmaker sought to sell a military-grade weapon to the mentally ill. Remington offered the families a $33 million settlement, which met in July 2021, about $3.7 million per family, but the exact…

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Biden urges gun control efforts on anniversary of Parkland shooting

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President Biden said Monday that Congress must act to help Americans “keep each other safe” on the fourth anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 14 students and three employees. “On this difficult day, we mourn with the Parkland families whose lives were turned upside down in an instant; who had to bury a piece of their souls deep in the earth.” We also pray for those who continue to suffer from visible and invisible wounds. And as we remember those…

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Kyle Rittenhouse calls an obvious self-defense case: Devin

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It was hard to watch Kyle Rittenhouse collapse during nearly five hours in the witness box Wednesday. Time and time again, he was forced to relive the harrowing evening on August 24, 2020, when a deadly mob chased him from Antifa and ended up shooting two of his attackers and wounding a third in riot-ridden Kenosha. He was 17 years old at the time. Life bears a heavy burden for any ordinary person, and the child-faced teenager is overwhelmed with emotion as he recounts the moment he finds himself trapped,…

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‘Rust’ gun maker Hana Gutierrez Reid’s lawyer claims she was ‘framed’

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The gunsmith’s lawyer said on the set of “Rust” that his client was “framed” over the tragic death that occurred when Alec Baldwin shot the film’s cinematographer. Hana Gutierrez Reid’s attorney insisted Wednesday that “vandalism” and “tampering” of the crime scene are evidence of a frame job filmed last month on the set of the New Mexico movie. The statement came a day after Gutierrez-Reid met with Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies regarding the double shooting. Cinematographer, Helena Hutchins, was killed, and director Joel Sousa was injured when Baldwin fired…

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