Firearms articles
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Commerce Department announces new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Commerce Department on Friday announced new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports in an effort to prevent the guns from ending up in the hands of drug traffickers and criminals in other nations. Oversight of legal firearms exports has become a political struggle in Washington since the Trump administration in 2020 moved […]
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Neosho man charged with illegal possession of firearms and child sex crime
NEWTON COUNTY, Mo. — A Neosho man convicted of domestic assault is now charged with illegal possession of firearms and a child sex crime. Police arrested Joseph Taylor, 40, last week after a woman reported seeing him have inappropriate sexual contact with a ten-year-old child. Court records say the woman caught Taylor in the act []
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Republic man pleads guilty to fentanyl trafficking, owning illegal firearms
REPUBLIC, Mo. -- A man from Republic, Missouri is facing a minimum of 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court to trafficking fentanyl and owning illegal firearms. 34-year-old Tonikko Fewell pleaded guilty on Monday before a U.S. federal judge to two counts of possessing and intending to distribute fentanyl, one count []