A 33-year-old NYPD officer with a reported history of domestic violence shot and killed his wife as she ran from their St. Albans home on June 5 before killing himself.

Police are calling the incident a murder-suicide.

Armed robbers held up an Ozone Park cell phone store on Friday and cops say they arrested the suspects only a short time later after they fled.

Police responded to a report of a robbery at the T-Mobile store at 97-05 Rockaway Blvd. at around 7:30 p.m.

A 33-year-old NYPD officer with a reported history of domestic violence shot and killed his wife as she ran from their St. Albans home on June 5 before killing himself.

Police are calling the incident a murder-suicide.

A popular video game store in Howard Beach was the target of a brazen robbery on Monday.

Two gunmen barged into the Game Stop store at 160-08 Cross Bay Blvd. around noon in the daring daylight robbery, according to Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct.

Dear Editor:

HR 1565 is new legislation in Congress to expand Brady background checks on gun sales. But despite the fact that nine in 10 Americans support expanded background checks, the gun lobby extremists are working overtime to kill the bill.

Strong, sensible gun laws preserve Second Amendment rights, prevent gun violence, and save lives.

While the Brady Law requires criminal background checks of gun sales at gun stores, these checks are not required at gun shows, online sales and other venues where unlicensed sellers operate.

Right now in most states, felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill can walk into a gun show, flea market or even log on to the internet and buy weapons from unlicensed sellers, no questions asked.

Congress should require a simple criminal background check on gun sales. The Brady Law has stopped over 2 million felons and domestic abusers from getting guns at gun stores. Now it’s time to finish the job.

Completing the necessary paperwork for background checks takes mere minutes, and more than 91 percent of these checks are completed instantaneously.

I strongly support the Second Amendment. However, this right also requires basic responsibility, and as a society we are responsible for keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people like criminals, terrorists and the dangerously mentally ill.

In addition, there are exemptions from a check between family members, hunters and sportsmen who temporarily want to exchange firearms while hunting or participating in sports shooting activities.

I urge every reader to contact their representatives today and ask them to co-sponsor the bipartisan King-Thompson bill (H.R. 1565) to expand criminal background checks and save lives.

Police Officer Frank Calafiore was honored with the 106th Precinct’s Cop of the Month award at the Community Council meeting in Ozone Park on May 8, for his arrest last month of an alleged armed robber and the seizure of a loaded firearm and other assorted contraband.

According to Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, the precinct’s commanding officer, Calafiore, Sgt. John Egan and members of his anti-crime team responded to an armed robbery in progress of a 25-year-old woman in South Ozone Park on April 11.

An Astoria man faces several charges for allegedly bringing what were described as two BB guns to a crowded park May 7, loading one of them with plastic pellets, firing at a tree and then handing them to his children so they could shoot too.

His 5-year-old daughter allegedly ran around the park waving one of the loaded guns at other children.

An Astoria father faces several charges for allegedly bringing what were described as two BB guns to a crowded park last Tuesday, loading one of them with plastic pellets, firing at a tree and then handing them to his children so they could shoot too.

His 5-year-old daughter allegedly ran around the park waving one of the loaded guns at other children.

Dear Editor:

The U.S. Senate’s rejection of expanded background checks for gun buyers was an act of cowardice and a catalyst for carnage. Those 46 senators who voted against it gave a green light to the next Adam Lanza, James Holmes and Jared Loughner. They’re NRA lapdogs. The gun lobby won a battle, but not the war. More can be done by political leaders and journalists to defeat mass murder enablers. Here are 2 approaches that should be followed ASAP.

1. Gun control advocates in Congress, starting with Sen. Chuck Schumer, must pressure the Treasury and Justice departments to challenge the NRA’s tax-exempt status. How can an outfit that spends $100 million on lobbying and pays its CEO — the gun lobby’s Lindsay Lohan — nearly $1 million a year, qualify as a nonprofit social welfare organization? The NRA is a pimp for the firearms industry, thriving on tax-free donations from gun makers who sell their perilous products to anyone. We pay for that. Taxpayers should not foot the bill for 32,000 gun deaths a year.

2. Journalists should follow the money, just like Woodward and Bernstein did in the Watergate scandal 40 years ago. They can track every blood money bribe the NRA paid individual legislators, and how these representatives voted on gun control measures. Focus must be placed on the five rogue Senate democrats who abandoned their party and defied the will of 90 percent of U.S. voters. How much did each traitor get to buy their vote? Reporters can obtain this data under the Freedom of Information Act. We’re entitled to know the current price for selling your soul to the gun lobby and acting as a cheerleader for child killers.

NRA RIP ASAP

A high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family who literally got away with murder for decades has finally been found guilty of that crime and others and could go to prison for life.

Bartolomeo Vernace, 64, variously known as “Bobby Glasses,” “Pepe” and “John Canova,” was found guilty on April 17 of a racketeering conspiracy that included his participation in the 1981 murder of two Queens bar owners — killings sparked by a spilled drink.

One suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was shot dead by police last night and the other may be holed up in a home that the authorities have surrounded, according to media reports, as the situation changes minute by minute.

“A pretty shameful day for Washington.” That’s how President Obama described the failure on Wednesday of attempts to tighten gun laws. He is correct.

Who could be against expanding background checks for people trying to buy firearms? Only the leadership of the National Rifle Association and its dependents on Capitol Hill. Poll after poll shows the public wants it to be just as difficult to buy a weapon at a gun show as it is at a store. Yet members of the U.S. Senate, led by Republicans but including Democrats, knocked down even that common-sense, along with others meant to reduce the daily carnage in our streets.

The police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating and identifying a man wanted for menacing, after an alleged hate-fueled run-in at a Kew Gardens mosque.

At about 8 p.m. on Friday, April 12, a man left the Masjid al-Saalihdeen, at 72-55 Kissena Blvd., and was driving his vehicle when he noticed an unknown male driving a dark-colored SUV following him.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown on April 5 charged two Queens residents with participating in the robberies of two borough gas stations and a deli, then leading police on a dangerous car chase to avoid being arrested.

The defendants, 32-year old Ravinder Dharamshot of 89-32 Lyman St. in Queens Village and 23-year-old Umair Farooq of 62-89 214 St. in Oakland Gardens, face charges of robbery, criminal use of a firearm and possessing an imitation pistol. Dharamshot is additionally charged with first-degree reckless endangerment. The defendants face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Manhattan) said she received four phone calls at her office on the Upper East Side on April 2 threatening to kill her if she continued supporting gun control legislation.

The suspect who called her office referenced a bill Maloney sponsored on March 21, the Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2013, which would require all gun owners to secure liability insurance and impose other regulations.

Police said all six people who were arrested are Queens residents.

The NYPD said after entry was initiated by its Emergency Services Unit, officers recovered the guns, a large knife with a brass knuckle handle, narcotics and marijuana.

The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating two men wanted for three robberies and an attempted robbery in the 69th and 105th precincts.

On March 1 the men entered Caribbean Air Mail at 79-15 Flatlands Ave. in Brooklyn just after 6 p.m., displayed guns and demanded cash.

Police Officer Russell Graziano of the 106th Precinct was honored last week with the Cop of the Month award at the community council meeting in Ozone Park for his seizure of a loaded firearm and other assorted contraband.

According to Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, the precinct’s commanding officer, Graziano and members of his anti-crime team were on patrol on Feb. 16 along Rockaway Boulevard when they spotted five individuals in a car acting suspiciously and pulled them over for investigation.

An African-American art exhibition by Khalil Koromantee and His Young Black Artists will be on display on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rosenthal Library, Room 230, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing.

The new Queens Artists’ Alliance will be hosting an Emerging Artists Show and reception at GEAR Gallery, 61-08 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, on Friday, Feb. 8 from 6-9 p.m. and on Saturday, Feb. 9 from 1-6 p.m. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. All Queens artists are encouraged to attend and to bring photos of their work with contact info on the back to leave with the alliance for possible inclusion in upcoming shows in Queens. For more information, email pattig213@aol.com.

Dear Editor:

Evil people have committed evil acts since Cain killed Abel yet we persist in the delusion that we can legislate evil into extinction. Good people will abide by the law. Criminals will always find their way around it so before we accept any new firearm legislation, it would behoove us to review and examine the efficacy and consequences of such legislation and contemplate the ramifications.

The greatest human tragedies and the greatest loss of innocent human life can be attributed to governments and not to lone gunmen in malls, movie theaters and schools. Registration and confiscation of firearms preceded the extermination of millions of Armenians by the Turks and Jews by Nazi Germany, just to cite two examples. History informs us that gun control is not about guns; it’s about control. Our Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom put the Second Amendment in place in case politicians ignore the others; it’s definitely not about hunting.

Gun banners don’t hate guns. They just don’t like the idea of average citizens having access to them. They don’t complain about military-style uniforms and the heavy-duty firearms granted to police and other government authorities. They consider themselves elites with privileges who depend on guns without which they could accomplish none of their goals and employ armed body guards for their protection. They are eager and willing to disarm the rest of us and designate where we live, work and play “gun-free” zones where insane killers can inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

The current gun debate isn’t about whether guns are good or bad but about which particular groups of people are entitled to own them. Opponents of public gun ownership don’t hate guns. They hate the public.

A former mobster and drug dealer will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of two murders in South Queens during the 1990s. 

Newly elected state Sen. James Sanders (D-Jamaica) was energetic and jovial as he met with constituents on a “listening tour” at Rochdale Village on Friday, planting a kiss on constituent Gloria Williams and shaking hands with the crowd.

Despite the snowfall and frigid temperatures, about 60 people attended the meeting and asked questions on a wide variety of topics including youth services, gun violence and crime, tenants’ rights, cultural enrichment and the creation of the Senate’s Independent Democratic Caucus.

Dear Editor:

Those who rail against gun enthusiasts might well redirect their ill-informed venom against those who follow theprecepts of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin — the so-called liberal-progressives. Both dictators confiscated firearms with the excuse that they were ensuring the public safety.

Connecticut has stringent laws on guns, yet when that state wished to strengthen them to include citizens with mental illness, like the Newtown mass murderer, it was the ACLU that fought against it and won.

Here in New York City, stop and frisk has been monumentally successful in removing guns off the street, yet it has been the ACLU, a compliant judge and craven politicianswho want an end to the practice. Whom are they protecting, us or the criminals?

Gov. Cuomo’s demented screams during his State of the State Address brought us a gun law that makes illegal all pistols carried by the police if their magazineshave more than seven rounds. A gunman will be carrying 13 or more rounds in his gun. Whom is Cuomo protecting, the cops or the crooks ?

Anti-gun advocates should also realize that the Aurora, Col. shooter went to the onlymovie theater in the area that was declared a gun-free zone. Does anyone really doubt that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun?

The Second Amendment to the Constitution was never more forcefully used to prevent tyranny than in the Battle of Athens, Tenn. in 1946. Look it up on the internet and learn from history.