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Are Silencers Legal? - SilencerCo
Silencers Are Legal for civilian use in 40 states. Benefits include: hearing protection, hunting, improved situational awareness, and it's your right.
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Democrats want special panel on gun violence
House Democrats are intensifying their effort to check gun violence.
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Gun advocates challenge zoos' bans on possession around US
Visitors to the Houston Zoo can now pack a little something extra besides a camera and picnic basket. The nearly century-old institution recently lifted its longtime firearms ban amid a broader push by gun-rights advocates who are pressuring zoos in Texas and elsewhere to do the same.
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People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year
This week a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat. This type of thing happens from time to time: a little kid finds a gun, fires it, and hurts or kills himself or someone else. These cases rarely bubble up to the national level except when someone, like a parent, ends up dead.
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Despite Criticism, NRA Still Enjoys Majority Support in U.S.
Despite a year of blistering criticism from gun control advocates about the National Rifle Association's hard-line stance against gun restrictions amid a spate of mass shootings nationwide, 58% in the U.S. have a favorable opinion of the NRA. In a year plagued with mass shootings, including a recent tragedy at a community college in Oregon, there has been a national debate as to whether the NRA, with its ardent support for gun rights, is somehow complicit in these shootings.
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Tom Gresham: Ignoring Second Amendment hurts free market
New, massive players entering the gun rights battle on the side of those who would restrict individual rights are changing the political playing field in stealthy, insidious and possibly effective ways. America’s 100-plus million gun owners expect constant assaults on their rights from elected politicians, much of the media and the gun ban lobby. Through individual and collective lobbying (contacting their representatives as set out by the Founders of our government)...
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LA City Council passes tougher gun storage laws
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to require gun owners to store their firearms in locked containers or install trigger locks when not using them. Under the ordinance, handguns will need to be disabled and kept on the owner's person or within close enough proximity that it is in the owner's control. The measure aims to prevent guns from falling into the hands of children who may accidentally fire the weapons.
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Brazil Seeks to Copy U.S. Gun Culture
Lawmakers want to make it easier for Brazilians to get weapons Congressmen in Brazil, one of the most violent countries in the world, are proposing to dramatically loosen restrictions on personal gun ownership, bringing the country much closer to the American right to bear arms. The politicians say the measures are necessary to allow embattled citizens the right to defend themselves from criminals armed with illegal weapons.
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How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws
In California, some gun smugglers use FedEx. In Chicago, smugglers drive just across the state line into Indiana, buy a gun and drive back. In Orlando, Fla., smugglers have been known to fill a $500 car with guns and send it on a ship to crime rings in Puerto Rico. In response to mass shootings in the last few years, more than 20 states, including some of the nation’s biggest, have passed new laws restricting how people can buy and carry guns.
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Gun companies lock up billions in sales, boosted by calls for tougher laws
With more than 300 million firearms owned by U.S. civilians and at least 100 million guns produced by U.S. manufacturers in the last 25 years, the U.S. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world. With such a large market, the U.S. gun business is extraordinarily lucrative, generating around $8 billion in annual new small arms sales.
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Senate rejects a series of gun control bills
In the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California that left 14 people dead, the Senate on Thursday voted on -- and rejected -- a series of gun control bills. The measures were taken up as amendments to legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act. By a vote of 52 to 47, the Senate rejected a proposal to strengthen treatment for mental illness and substance abuse disorders.
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Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money. Ordinary people are despairing about the frequency of tragic events like the murderous rampage in San Bernardino on Wednesday, or the Planned Parenthood massacre last week. And the cycle of mass killing, media frenzy, and political stalemate starts anew each time. But meanwhile, gun sales continue to...
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Justice Thomas Picked Today, Of All Days, To Call For More Access To Assault Rifles
Had Thomas's view prevailed, it could have set off a cycle that gradually made virtually any restrictions on the types of firearms owned by civilians unconstitutional.
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US Supreme Court will not hear 'assault weapons ban' case
The US Supreme court has refused to take up a case brought by gun owners challenging an Illinois city's ban on so-called assault weapons.
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The real reason the NRA is so powerful
Money matters in politics, and the NRA does have money. But lots of lobbying groups have more money than the NRA and almost none of their clout. The NRA's true sources of power are twofold — people and focus.
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Sponge injection could save the lives of domestic gunshot victims
FDA approves civilian use of syringe-like device designed to plug war wounds. By Beth Mole.
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Three years and 90,000 gun deaths since Sandy Hook, appetite for change builds
Hundreds of vigils for gun violence victims are to be held across the US, and organisers sense a change, saying people are coming together like never before
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Connecticut to Ban Gun Sales to Those on Federal Terrorism Lists
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut said on Thursday that he intended to sign an executive order to bar people on federal terrorism watch lists from buying firearms in the state. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Eric Lichtblau.
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American woman mistakenly kills her daughter
Police in Florida say a mother mistook her daughter for an intruder and shot her dead. Sergeant Denise Roberts, of the St Cloud police, said the mother was asleep when she heard someone enter her home late on Tuesday. The mother told police she heard footsteps approaching quickly so she fired a single shot. She then discovered the person was her 27-year-old daughter. The daughter was taken to a hospital where she died.
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Landmark California gun seizure law takes effect 1 January but amid concerns
A California gun statute going into effect on 1 January gives the police or family members the option to petition the courts to seize the guns and ammunition of someone they think poses a threat, the first law of its kind in the country. But the “gun violence restraining order” law, passed last year, has raised concerns from lawmakers and pro-gun groups about civil liberties and questions about how effective it will really be.
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