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USA Today: The Three Gun Debate Bills to Pay Attention to In Congress
After the mass shooting in Las Vegas, expect Congress to battle over gun legislation that aims to both loosen and tighten restrictions. While there are dozens of gun-related bills introduced in Congress every year, we picked the three major pieces of legislation you'll want to keep track of.
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Washington Post: I Used to Think Gun Control was the Answer. My Research Told Me Otherwise.
Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States.
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Fox News: Festival Banned Attendees From Carrying Firearms
With the large volumes of people attending, MGM Resorts restricted concert-goers from bringing in “weapons, firearms, pepper stray, pocket knives or mace,” or “bags or backpacks.”
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The Daily Wire: Gun Control? The Las Vegas Death Toll Happens Every MONTH In Chicago
The murder toll in Las Vegas on Sunday makes it the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Know what they call that in Chicago? June.
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The Daily Caller: All-Out War Against The NRA Begins After Las Vegas Massacre
Left-wing politicians, activists and journalists are using the worst mass shooting in modern American history to attack one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations.
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Fox News: Gun Control in Europe Hasn't Stopped Mass Shooting Attacks
Europe, which has all the gun controls that are being pushed in the aftermath of the Las Vegas carnage, has actually suffered more bloodshed from these types of attacks than the U.S.
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Nick Gillespie: This Is the Time To Defend the Second Amendment
In the wake of the Vegas mass shooting—the deadliest in U.S. history—anti-gun activists are out in force.
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Firearms Policy Coalition Statement on Las Vegas Shooting
The American people will not be bullied by killers or politicians and neither will we cower against attacks on our most important civil rights. We reject the notion that good, peaceable people and our basic rights must suffer for the crimes of the wicked.
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LA Times: California adopted some of the toughest gun control laws in country after multiple mass shootings
Craig J. DeLuz, a spokesman for the Firearms Policy Coalition, a gun owners’ rights group, denounced political commentary about gun control.
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Guns.com: Roy Moore beats Trump-, NRA-backed candidate in Alabama race
“It’s been very hard for my wife and myself to wither two, nearly three months of negative ads that we couldn’t answer with money because we didn’t have it. Ads that were completely false — that I don’t believe in the Second Amendment,” Moore said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a revolver. “I believe in the Second Amendment.”
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Fox 17 Nashville: Police: Tennessee mass shooting suspect wore tactical vest, ammunition into church
Don Aaron said the usher, later identified as 22-year-old Robert Engle, was pistol whipped as he confronted the suspect, who then apparently shot himself during the struggle. Aaron said the usher then went to his own car to retrieve his gun, returned and stood over the suspect until police arrived.
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Visalia Times: California bill will ban guns on campuses, period
"Since the creation of California concealed carry permit in 1923, there have been zero incidents on school grounds involving CCW holders," said Craig DeLuz, spokesman for the Firearms Policy Coalition. "One has to wonder why there is a need to remove such authority, given that SB 707 has been in effect for little more than a year."
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Trevor Carey Show: Big Anti-Gun Bills Headed to Governor Jerry Brown's Desk
Craig DeLuz of the Firearms Policy Coalition reveals the big anti-gun bills the are heading to Governor Jerry Brown's desk to be signed into law.
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CBS Evening News: Educators From 12 States Take 3-day Firearms Course
More than 1,000 educators from 12 states have taken a three-day firearms course in rural Ohio called FASTER Saves Lives.
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Fox News: Gun-control activists to pour another million dollars into Virginia state elections
The Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, a New York-based gun-control group founded in large part by Michael Bloomberg, is donating $450,000 to Democrat Ralph Northam in his race against Republican Ed Gillespie. They're spending another $250,000 on mailers supporting Northam. The gun-control group is putting another $300,000 into Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring's reelection bid.
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NPR: An Anti-Violence Activist Shares Her Reason For Buying A Gun
Today - the story of a woman who was wrapped up in gang violence when she was young and worked hard to separate herself from that life. She's now an anti-gun activist, yet she still struggles with trauma. As WBEZ's Chip Mitchell reports, it's led her to make a startling choice.
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Guns.com: Reporter Finds Loaded Police-Issued 9mm at Busy Intersection
The Smith &Wesson M&P was marked “SBPD” on the slide and South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski confirmed it belonged to his department.
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Truth About Guns: California Set to Eliminate Last Legal Form of Open Carry
You didn’t know that any kind of open carry was legal in California? True story! As I type, residents can open carry a long gun in unincorporated areas. You’ll never guess which city consists of 65 percent unincorporated areas . . .
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Bill Promoting Unequal Access to Public Data is on Gov. Jerry Brown’s Desk
“This measure ensures that only those that are ideological similar are going to have access to the data that supports this publicly funded research,” notes DeLuz. “If public data, collected by public employees, using public tax dollars to study a public policy is to be made available to anyone, it should be public.”
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Columbus Dispatch: Gun Backers Accuse Cops of Lying About Ohio Conceal-Carry Law
Gary Witt, director of Ohio Concealed Carry, said that when law-enforcement groups say it puts officers in danger when they don’t know about permit holders’ guns during detentions and traffic stops, they’re making “false claims.”
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Guns.com: Michigan Lawmakers Move to Protect Gun Rights of Foster Parents
House Bill 4955, would prohibit state agencies from considering the ownership or possession of a legal firearm or pistol license by an applicant when making decisions on placing a child in foster care or for adoption.
