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There is no clear, credible reporting in the provided sources that the executed a raid on a “mansion in ”; instead the record shows a series of federal search warrants and high-profile federal operati...
The available reporting does not identify a specific commercial bullet brand or model used in the Charlie Kirk shooting; instead, investigators and officials have emphasized recovered from the scene a...
No reporting in the provided sources publicly identifies any specific pardoned January 6 defendants as current federal law enforcement employees; available documents and articles raise the question an...
Federal gun law in 2025 remains a patchwork of existing statutes, recent federal actions, and ongoing legislative proposals: the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) and NICS background-check proce...
Hispanic representation in ICE has been consistently higher than the Hispanic share of the overall federal workforce, and notably lower than some border-focused agencies such as Border Patrol, which r...
The available analyses do not establish that the United States government deliberately *aided* Mexican drug cartels; instead, official records and oversight reports describe U.S. efforts to combat car...
Republican lawmakers emphasize protecting Second Amendment rights, moving to preempt state restrictions, roll back federal regulations, and limit enforcement tools like “red flag” laws, while Democrat...
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducts drug‑smuggling investigations primarily by building interagency task forces, formalizing agreements for cross‑designation and information sharing,...
ICE agent firearms training in 2025 is built largely on standardized programs delivered by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), which offers multi-day instructor and pistol courses us...
The available analyses show , though conclusions vary by dataset, definition of “mass shooting,” and timeframe. Several pieces cite high-profile deadly incidents and rising firearm deaths through 2019...
Public reporting about whether ballistics or gunshot residue testing was conducted in the Tyler Robinson case is mixed: some outlets and experts explicitly report a ballistic match between the rifle f...
Since 2025, Minneapolis has layered city-level rules, executive directives and departmental policy changes designed to erect a “firewall” between local policing and federal immigration enforcement—mos...
Regulators have moved decisively to narrow civilian access to military‑style hexachloroethane (HC) smoke and similar “consumer‑grade” grenades: the ATF rescinded prior exemptions for certain flashbang...
ICE’s workforce has seen rapid expansion and intense personnel churn recently, but the available reporting and agency materials do not provide direct, comparable “turnover rate” statistics against oth...
Federal law enforcement agencies commonly provide that benefit veterans, but practices vary by agency and by the legal authority invoked; veterans’ preference and court decisions require agencies to w...
Federal law in 2025 continues to require background checks for all firearm purchases from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) using NICS, but does not universally mandate checks for purely private, one-...
A dramatic hiring surge under the Trump administration rapidly reshaped ICE’s enforcement ranks—doubling the agency’s size within months and pulling personnel from other federal law enforcement bodies...
ICE operates under the same constitutional rules limiting deadly force as other police — deadly force is lawful only to stop an imminent threat of death or serious injury — but in practice ICE’s polic...
Authorities say a shooter opened fire Saturday, Dec. 13, inside Brown University’s Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, killing two students and wounding between eight and nine others; a p...
Federal law does not bar gun ownership solely because someone takes psychotropic medication; instead, the federal prohibition focuses on mental health “adjudications” and involuntary commitments under...