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A New Jersey hospital marketing director was arrested this week after a bomb threat at the facility led police to discover a cache of weapons and ammunition stashed in an unlocked office closet. Reuven Alonalayoff, who worked at Hudson Regional Hospital, was taken into custody Sunday at Newark Liberty International Airport with assistance from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations. Alonalayoff, 46, of Elmwood Park, was charged with possession of an assault firearm and two counts of possession of a high capacity magazine. Lawyer information for him was not immediately available. His arrest comes weeks after the hospital received a phone call on July 18 that a bomb was in the facility, the Secaucus Police Department said in a news release . Officers, along with bomb detection canines, swept the hospital. It was a canine that flagged the unlocked closet, according to officials. “Upon entering the closet, police discovered a large cache of rifles, … [Read more...] about N.J. hospital marketing director arrested after cache of 39 guns, ammo found in office closet

Gilroy, Calif. — It was not supposed to happen at the garlic festival, Gilroy’s beloved public celebration. It was not supposed to happen at a country music festival in Las Vegas. It was not supposed to happen during morning Shabbat services in Pittsburgh . It was not supposed to happen in the middle of evening Bible study in Charleston . It was not supposed to happen in a Parkland high school, or a Newtown elementary school. Advertisement It was not supposed to happen at countless other houses of worship, nightclubs and shopping centers. But this is America. No one is safe. In America, mass shootings have become depressingly common. No place is safe. Which is why it was so discordant to hear the comment made by a woman who was taking a cellphone video of terrified festival goers in Gilroy: “Who’d shoot up a garlic festival?” It doesn’t even take a wild guess: A white man, probably a young adult , with legal access to weapons he should never, … [Read more...] about Column: Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting rampage is awful but not surprising

Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen more on Saturday night and Sunday morning, the latest outbreaks of gun violence in the wake of three mass shootings that have rattled the United States. In Philadelphia, a confrontation between two men escalated into a gunfight that sprayed bullets into a crowded bar and restaurant district, killing three people, wounding 12, and setting off panic as people tried to flee, police said. Similarly, shooting broke out after midnight near a bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after midnight on Saturday, killing three and wounding 14, according to police. In yet another shooting in the early hours of Sunday, three people were killed and two were wounded in Saginaw, Michigan, WEYI television reported, citing a police statement. Unlike the other two cases, which affected bystanders unconnected to the shooting, all five of the people in the Michigan shooting were involved in the incident, police said. No suspects … [Read more...] about Shootings in Three American Cities Kill 9, Leave Several Wounded

Smith & Wesson has fired back in a letter against the House Oversight and Reform Committee Democrats’ subpoena against the firearms manufacturer, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal. On August 15, Smith & Wesson, represented by Schaerr Jaffe, sent a letter to House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) regarding the committee’s subpoena, which was issued on August 1. Smith & Wesson CEO Mark Smith said this subpoena amounts to nothing more than politicians and the media attempting to “disparage” Smith & Wesson. He elaborated in a statement on Monday: A number of politicians and their lobbying partners in the media have recently sought to disparage Smith & Wesson. Some have had the audacity to suggest that after they have vilified, undermined and defunded law enforcement for years, supported prosecutors who refuse to hold criminals accountable for their actions, overseen the decay of our country’s mental health infrastructure, and … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Smith & Wesson Fights Back Against Democrat Subpoena