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Rural King Supply is a farm supply store based in Mattoon, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1960, as of 2024 the chain has 135 stores in the U.S. states of Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Alabama. [1] The company also operates an online ...
The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA or GCA68) is a U.S. federal law that regulates the firearms industry and firearms ownership. Due to constitutional limitations, the Act is primarily based on regulating interstate commerce in firearms by generally prohibiting interstate firearms transfers except by manufacturers, dealers and importers licensed ...
In June 2013, Kentucky adopted the Kentucky long rifle as its state firearm. [4] In June 2014, Pennsylvania adopted the Pennsylvania long rifle as its state firearm. [5] In July 2014, Alaska adopted the pre-1964 Winchester Model 70 rifle as its state firearm. The bill, sponsored by Senate President Charlie Huggins, refers to the gun as the ...
Gun death rates are consistently higher in rural areas than in big cities, two decades of data show. From 2011 to 2020, the most rural counties in the U.S. had a 37% higher rate of gun deaths per ...
On March 22, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Ten people were killed, including a local on-duty police officer. [4][5] The shooter, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, was arrested after being shot in the right leg. He was temporarily hospitalized [7][8] before being moved to the ...
On November 5, 2017, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a local man, Devin Kelley, shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others. Kelley was shot and wounded by another local resident, then killed himself after a car chase. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history [2] and the deadliest at an American place of ...
92.0% oppose a federal law banning the sale of firearms between private citizens. 82.3% of members are in favor of a program that would place armed security professionals in every school. 72.5% agreed that President Obama's ultimate goal is the confiscation of many firearms that are currently legal.
Sandifer's father, Robert Akins, was absent throughout Sandifer's life due to incarceration for a felony gun charge. Sandifer was physically abused from the time he was an infant. [6] Before he was three years old, Sandifer was already known to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).