Special counsel Robert Mueller. Photo via FBI.

By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

A U.S. Secret Service motorcycle officer, who was headed to the vice president’s residence to set up a motorcade later in the day, was injured Tuesday morning in a crash involving a vehicle near  the U.S. Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington, the Washington Post reports.

The uniformed officer was treated at the  hospital for what was described as a non-life-threatening injuries.

The crash occurred about 11:35 a.m. at 34th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW.

Bump Stock (Wikipedia photo)

By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

Yes, the ban on bump stocks is real.

Hours before a federal rule banning the possession of bump stocks came into effect on Tuesday,  Texas-based gun accessory retailer RW Arms announced it was voluntarily turning over its entire inventory of 60,000 unsold devices to ATF for destruction, the website The Trace reports.

The company, RW Arms,  issued a press release on Monday night, saying ATF agents will watch as a local recycling company destroys the devices with an industrial shredding machine.

RW Arms was founded in April 2017, just weeks after Slide Fire, the leading manufacturer of bump stocks, announced its own closure

Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, via LinkedIn.

By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos testified to Congress that the FBI asked him to wear a wire in 2017, but he refused, CNN reports.

Papdopoulos told lawmakers of the wire last October.

The FBI wanted him to record his conversations with a professor who had ties to Russia and claimed that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of stolen emails.