Switchblade Rebels with a Cause: Reforming Knife Laws
RealClearInvestigations
Since 2006, knife-rights advocates have quietly won repeal or reform of 23 laws restricting knives in 17 states, while defeating proposed restrictions in 7 more. Their fight is not just about the right to bear arms, but civil rights as well: Many charged with illegal possession are minorities who carry knives for work. U.S. Lost Track of $1 Billion in Weapons, Equipment in Iraq
Washington Post The U.S. military has lost track of more than $1 billion worth of arms and equipment meant for Iraqi army and Shiite and Kurdish forces fighting ISIS, a government audit obtained by Amnesty International found. Over 14 years, the U.S. has supplied armed groups in Afghanistan and Iraq with more than 1.45 million firearms that can't be accounted for. Cops Fight for Right to Sex With Prostitutes
Reason
Police in Alaska and other states are arguing that they need to be allowed to have sex with suspects in order to investigate prostitution allegations. Others say that's unnacceptable given the deception, power differential and subsequent arrests involved in such encounters. Shady Super-PAC Fooled Many Conservative Donors
Daily Caller
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has grabbed the headlines for a lot of reasons, but a run for office isn't one of them. Despite that, at least four different out-of-state political groups have have successfully tricked conservative donors into supporting a non-existent future campaign. Where a Deadly Cold War Legacy Lives On
Post and Courier
The Savannah River Valley in South Carolina is host to one of the most contaminated places on Earth: the storage site of decommissioned nuclear bomb plant. Casualty and cancer rates - not to mention the radioactive roaches - suggest that the nation's nuclear weapons facilities are not as safe as they seem. Tennessee: Fire on the Mountain and a Night of Terror
Garden & Gun
Recounting the worst fire in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 100 years: It started with kids playing with matches, and swept across the Smoky Mountains to threaten people as they slept in their beds, claiming the lives of 14 people, displacing 14,000 more, and consuming 2,000 properties in under 24 hours. For Philadelphia Librarians, Overdose Drills
Philadelphia Inquirer
Since the opioid crisis began surging throughout the country last summer, library staff in Philadelphia have noticed new settlers on their lawn: "drug tourists," they call them. Young people travel from across the country for Philly's potent heroin and a high said to be better than anywhere else. | 
