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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

assault weapons

David Roytman explains to volunteers of his Jerusalem Shield emergency team how to use the CornerShot system in Jerusalem on February 24, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
September 5, 2024, 3:21 am
In Jerusalem’s center, an elite emergency team prepares for an intense, lonely fight
One of 1,000 volunteer units set up after Oct. 7, Jerusalem Shield trains with expensive gear for extreme situations
By Canaan Lidor
In a video circulated online, two unidentified men can be seen driving around Eilat with a loaded M-16 belonging to an IDF serviceman. (Screenshot)
August 2, 2020, 10:39 am
Police probe video of men driving around Eilat with loaded assault rifle
Suspects arrested near Dimona without weapon, which is reported to belong to an active-duty IDF serviceman stationed in the south
By ToI Staff
Rifles line a hunting store's shelves in Ottawa, May 16, 2006. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
May 2, 2020, 12:27 am
Canada bans assault-style weapons after deadly shooting rampage
‘You do not need an AR-15 to take down a deer,’ Trudeau says, in announcing new ban, which will apply to type of guns used by shooter who killed 22 in Nova Scotia
By Rob Gillies
Democratic US Senator Dianne Feinstein speaks during a press briefing about the recent FBI investigation into US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 4, 2018. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP)
April 30, 2019, 8:43 pm
After Poway, Feinstein submits bill to raise minimum age to buy assault rifle
Jewish senator again tries to bar sale of weapon to anyone under 21, after 19-year-old is charged in deadly synagogue shooting in her home state
By Ron Kampeas
A policewoman patrols past a memorial wall outside the Linwood Mosque in Christchurch on March 21, 2019. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP)
March 21, 2019, 5:11 am
New Zealand bans sales of assault weapons days after mosque bloodbath
PM Ardern announces halt on semi-automatic guns, assault rifles and bump stocks in response to Christchurch shooting; existing gun-owners told to sell back arms or face fines
By Agencies
Weapons captured by police in an undercover operation in East Jerusalem (Israel Police)
March 12, 2018, 6:23 pm
Police nab dozens of weapons, 22 suspects in East Jerusalem
Captured arms include bombs, assault rifles, handguns and ammunition; some of those arrested said to be known terror operatives
By ToI Staff
Israeli security officials drag an assailant into custody after he attacked two police officers and an elderly couple in their Haifa apartment before barricading himself inside on March 12, 2018. (Screen capture/Hadashot news)
March 12, 2018, 12:02 pm
Man armed with handsaw attacks cops, seniors in Haifa
One man in 80s seriously injured in rampage by mentally ill assailant near hospital
By ToI Staff
Shammai Engelmayer
February 23, 2018, 11:49 am
Shammai Engelmayer
Should synagogue-goers be armed?
Jewish law requires that we protect ourselves; to do so responsibly means strict and effective weapons-training
Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion prepare for a hike as part of their training on September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 16, 2017, 10:24 pm
Co-ed battalions to get new home in Border Defense Force
Mixed-gender units, trackers, surveillance monitors and combat intel come together to defend Jordanian, Egyptian borders
By Judah Ari Gross
Weapons and Nazi paraphernalia seized from the Mount Sinai, New York, home of Edward and Sean Perkowski, July 16, 2016 (Courtesy of Suffolk County Police Department)
June 18, 2016, 12:31 am
Assault rifles and Nazi paraphernalia found in New York home
Police say arrest of 2 brothers living in Long Island house ‘might have prevented a deadly, violent incident, like the one in Orlando’
By JTA
March 11, 2016, 10:32 am
Explosives thrown at Israeli car near Hebron, none hurt
Incident follows discovery of hidden M16s near Jordan Valley settlement, firebomb attack near Bethlehem
By ToI Staff
Cpt. (res.) Eliav Gelman (Hagar Amibar/Israel Air Force)
February 29, 2016, 9:50 am
Home of Eliav Gelman attacker mapped for demolition
Army arrests 19 West Bank Palestinian suspects overnight, seizes weapons in Hebron; 2 Gazans nabbed after breaking into Israel
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
A file picture taken on January 29, 2015, shows Palestinian youth showing their skills during a graduation ceremony as part of a training camp run by the Hamas movement in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)
From the WebDecember 8, 2015, 3:11 pm
A rifle’s journey from Belgium to Gaza
After Palestinian fighters were spotted at rally with weapon made for Belgian elite forces, the BBC reports on how it got there
An ax and a utility knife uncovered by police on the persons of two Palestinian teens in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 (Israel Police)
October 27, 2015, 2:08 pm
Attack by 2 Palestinian teens foiled in Jerusalem, police say
Officer notices 16- and 17-year-olds observing passersby in the Old City, finds they are carrying ax and utility knife
By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross
A weaponry cache found by IDF troops in T'lat, a West Bank town south of Qalqilya, on Oct. 26, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
October 27, 2015, 12:43 pm
IDF, police find assault rifles, knives in West Bank raids
Two late-night busts yield guns, grenades and night vision goggles; cops also thwart possible stabbing attacks
By Judah Ari Gross
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