“Go to your room!” is a command whose meaning is portentously familiar to every Yaleman. And, because the ceremony which takes place under Yale’s elms on the third Thursday in every May is always fully reported in metropolitan newspapers, any outsiders are well aware of the tense excitement, the sense of a noble and picturesque tradition that comes to Yale on Tap Day. But there was once a time when Yale’s four Senior Societies— Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf’s Head, Elihu Club—were taken more seriously than now. Read More...
Colt will stop producing AR-15 rifles for consumers, the Connecticut-based gunmaker announced Thursday.
In a statement, Colt’s CEO Dennis Veilleux said the decision to suspend production was entirely market-driven. The statement made no mention of the mass shootings that involved the style of semi-automatic weapon, which include the Sandy Hook and Parkland tragedies. And though neither of the firearms in those two shootings were manufactured by Colt, the gunmaker did own the patent for the design of the widely popular AR-15 until it expired in the 1970s, when other companies could begin making and selling similar types of weapon. Read More...
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