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Deadly Defect? Popular Remington Rifle Can Fire On Its Own, Suit Claims
The popular Remington Model 700 rifle has a manufacturing defect that can cause it to fire without the trigger being pulled. The attorneys general from 10 states wrote the judge, claiming “there are potentially as many as 7.5 million defective rifles at issue." At least two people have been killed by potentially defective Remington 700s, “60 Minutes” reported. -
AR-15s ‘Not Protected’ By 2nd Amendment & Can Be Banned, Court Rules In Landmark Decision
The Maryland law, passed after a shooting, was called the Firearms Safety Act of 2013, and it banned AR-15s and most magazine-fed semi-automatic rifles. The majority ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which dealt with handgun and the right to self-defense, has no impact on semi-automatic rifles. Noting that such weapons are not “dangerous or unusual” and are used by millions of law-abiding citizens, Traxler disagreed, -
Bill Gates Warns Of Imminent Threat That Could Rapidly ‘Kill More Than 30 Million’
The Telegraph newspaper prior to a conference in German, Gates said it could be possible for terrorists to create a bioweapon that can kill more people than nuclear weapons could. Genetic engineering would make it possible for terrorists to engineer a virus capable of creating a pandemic, Gates said. It also is possible to reengineer the common flu virus to create a deadly influenza strain capable of causing a pandemic, Gates said.
