San Diego, CA —Yesterday Sheriff Bill Gore announced that he wouldn’t appeal the decision in Peruta vs. County of San Diego . That of course was the ruling that struck down California’s ability to obstruct the issuance of concealed weapon permits to law-abiding people requesting them.   The permits were nearly impossible to obtain in the state's most populous jurisdictions.   Officials had the power to arbitrarily and capriciously deny permits.   Only the politically powerful, very wealthy or connected applicants got the permits. Some California Sheriffs would routinely and nefariously sell the permits to their campaign contributors.   Under the now invalidated law CCW permit applicants had to prove "moral fitness" and a compelling need for the added protection.   Those nebulas factors were so incredibly vague that they were void.  Despotic California sheriffs and police chiefs got away with violating the Second Amendment rights of citizens for ...

Hartford, CT —Hundreds of thousands of gun owners risk felony arrest and conviction as they purposely ignore and resist new government anti-gun rights tyranny here. The politicians here have banned what they describe as “ Assault Weapons ” and certain ammunition magazines.  They created a registration scheme to allow gun owners to “keep” their weapons provided they register them.  They did that same thing in California in the 1990s.  Thousands of gun owners there simply never registered there either. Since people who are prohibited from owning firearms cannot be forced to register guns because of self-incrimination protections the law-abiding are the only ones affected by these laws. Gun registration is for one single purpose and that is as a major incremental step to firearm confiscation.  Gun registration has never been beneficial to law enforcement as a tool to curb crime.  Criminals simply never leave guns behind at crime scenes unless they are ...

Somewhere in Russia ---German Public Television network ADR caught up with Edward Snowden for an exclusive interview. This interview has been removed form YouTube and numerous other video sharing sites because it is against interest of our rogue government.   Snowden risked his $250,000.00 per year job, his liberty and very life to expose the most unlawful, vast and Machiavellian government surveillance program in the history of the entire world. Snowden has proven that while we slept criminals have obtained total control of our government in a secret and bloodless Coup d'état.   The unlawful NSA spying was not something that any elected politicians ever offered in their campaign speeches.   Had they done so, they would have never gotten elected. Barack Obama cannot claim ignorance or dare deny responsibility for this multi-billion dollar tax funded criminal government enterprise. The information contained within the NSA’s unlawfully seized data would ...

Sanford, FL —We now know that Travon Martin was a drug abusing, burglar and thug doing all the wrong things.   Young Martin selected the wrong person to bully and  assault.  That  cost Martin his life. I’m not going to retry the case that acquitted George Zimmerman but the lies from the Martin family, their lawyers, African-American community organizers and the gun rights hating mainstream media fell apart in court. Now Zimmerman is absolutely broke, shell-shocked and suffering from what he says is  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I believe that Zimmerma’s PTSD is associated not with the incident with Martin but by being terrorized by prosecutors, so-called community leaders and media whores.   That vicious assault on Zimmerman clearly left it’s marks.   If Zimmerman is correct that he suffers from PTSD he is in a now category of people that have lost their rights under federal law to possess firearms for life.   He may be ...

Los Angeles, CA —As a blogger and multimedia journalist I occasionally put up videos here on Crimefile News. Currently time and lack of funding precludes me from putting up more video.   Getting people to watch your video no matter how good it is challenging.   You need to tease people with hot button words we’ve all seen.   “You better watch this video before the censors take it down!”   “Watch Ms. X destroy so and so in this video!”   “Watch Mr. X meltdown under tense questioning!”    “This video will make you break out the tissues!”    Frankly these are getting very old.   They’ve been used and abused and I refuse to fall for them anymore. The truth is that Internet viewers are incredibly impatient and loading videos for some can be a slow process.   When you add in that many videos turn out to be a disappointment that don't deliver on the promised hype you better be creative rather than deceptive. Putting i...

Chicago, IL —The Internet is adding information at a rapid pace.   I often wondered what happened to a suicidal woman I helped pull from the Chicago River in July of 1976.   Today I found the tragic answer. It was just after eating a rather large breakfast I was in my personal car Westbound on the Congress Street Expressway Bridge by the huge post office building.  Suddenly in the stop and go rush hour traffic I saw a women bleeding from both wrists climbing on the South side railing of the bridge and suddenly she jumped into the filthy water below.  I pulled to the right and stopped my car in an effort to deal with the obvious emergency.  I crossed all the lanes of traffic on foot.  I discovered a man had broken the glass covering a life preserver and managed to hopelessly tangle its attached rope to the bridge. I could see the woman floundering below and ran down to the embankment to aid her.  As I was running I saw a man later ...