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Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer began thinking of ways to solve the problem using what he knows: technology. Twelve years later, that project has turned into Biofire, a firearms © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after…

The Matrix fame Keanu Reeves recently faced a home invasion by a group of masked burglars. According to reports, multiple men wearing ski masks broke into the 59-year-old's $7 million mansion in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. On Wednesday evening, the Los Angeles Police Department received an anonymous tip about a potential trespasser. However, the officers didn't find anyone at the scene. Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves' Los Angeles home broken into by masked menAs per Marca, the officials returned to the John Wick…

A 10th-grader was arrested Tuesday after bringing a loaded firearm onto the campus of a Redondo Beach high school, officials say.The same thing happened Monday.Classes at Redondo Union High School will be canceled Wednesday after the second incident in as many days in which a student brought a loaded weapon to school, officials said. Tuesday’s incident included a false report of a school shooting.In both cases, officers with the Redondo Beach Police Department said they had apprehended a 15-year-old sophomore who was…

Over 10 days in early March 2022, five homeless men were shot in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. Two died. With the extraordinary tool of firearms identification analysis, law enforcement linked every shooting to the same gun.Firearms identification analysis involves the microscopic examination and comparison of fired ammunition samples (typically fired bullets and spent cartridge cases recovered at crime scenes), in relation to each other and to test fires produced from recovered firearms. Qualified firearms examiners can…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Some firearm owners may not want researchers to know they own firearms, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers. In a study published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, researchers found that based on their answers to a variety of other…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Black adults—particularly Black women—with higher levels of education and experiences of discrimination and crime are more likely to own a firearm, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers. In a new study appearing in the Journal of Clinical Psychology,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The police murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 and revived claims that public outcry over such high-profile police killings perpetuates a violent "war on cops." In a new study, researchers assessed if and how patterns of firearm assault on police officers in the United States were influenced by the police murder of Floyd.…

A Rutgers study found that individuals who avoid COVID-19 precautions are more likely to purchase firearms, a pattern observed among moderate and conservative individuals. Surveying 6,404 adults from three states, the researchers used latent class analysis to identify four distinct groups based on defensive behaviors and political beliefs. Groups that engaged in fewer behaviors to avoid illness were more likely to have purchased firearms since March 2020 and had less faith in scientists acting in the public’s best…

A worker, who said he came to pick up some equipment, walks toward security guards at the entrance to the Bonanza Creek Ranch film set in Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.Jae C. Hong | APProducers of the "Rust" film starring Alec Baldwin announced Friday they will pay a reduced penalty of $100,000 to New Mexico's Occupational Health and Safety Bureau, settling a civil investigation into the movie-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.The final penalty was lowered from an original fine of $136,793…

By Kevin Flower | CNN The manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin relating to the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of the movie “Rust” have been downgraded by prosecutors in New Mexico, which will reduce the prison time the actor could face in the death of the movie’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. The move comes after attorneys for Baldwin filed a motion this past month to have the firearm enhancement charge dropped, arguing prosecutors were incorrect. A statement released by Heather Brewer, a spokeswoman for the New…