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Nov 08

WATCH: Pence promises swift review of ‘bureaucratic failures’ that enabled Texas shooter to buy a gun

By Erica R. Hendry

An Air Force review of why the military did not report Kelley’s domestic violence conviction to the National Crime Information Center in 2012, which would have blocked his ability to purchase a gun, would be completed in a matter of…

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Nov 07

After the Texas church shooting, will the military fix how it reports crime?

By A.C. Thompson and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica

The Air Force and the military’s other armed services have known for years there were widespread problems with their reporting procedures.

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Oct 23

Democratic state prosecutors unite against concealed-carry gun law

By Associated Press

The top prosecutors warned that proposals being debated on Capitol Hill "will lead to the death of police officers and civilians, the proliferation of gun traffickers, and acts of terrorism and other mass violence."…

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Oct 18

Twitter chat: How the gun control debate mirrors larger issues of partisanship in America

By Lora Strum

What would it take to turn Texas, a Republican stronghold, into a blue state? According to data from SurveyMonkey, just remove all the gun owners from the Lone Star State and it would have gone to Hillary Clinton in…

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Oct 05

NRA says it’s open to regulation of bump stocks

By Associated Press

In a statement on Thursday, the NRA says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives should immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law.

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Oct 05

Senior Republicans weigh bump stock ban after Las Vegas shooting

By Erica Werner, Associated Press

The comments from lawmakers marked a surprising departure from GOP lawmakers' general antipathy to gun regulations of any kind. But they were far from a guarantee of a path forward for the new legislation.

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Oct 04

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Sen. Lankford: Congress has to address issue of bump stocks

By PBS News Hour

The political debate over gun control in the U.S. has been reignited by the tragedy in Las Vegas. Judy Woodruff speaks with Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., about the use of bump stocks in the attack and how Washington might respond,…

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Oct 03

The Las Vegas shooter had a cheap modification that made his rifles more deadly

By Gretchen Frazee

At about 10 p.m. Sunday, a rapid pop-pop-pop rang out at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a country music festival in Las Vegas. At first the rapid-fire burst was so steady, many concertgoers mistook it for firecrackers. The noise came…

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Oct 03

WATCH: Ryan says no plan to act soon on easing gun regulations

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The Republican-led Congress had been pushing ahead on measures to loosen gun restrictions.

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Oct 02

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How do you protect soft targets like a concert?

By PBS News Hour

Can anything be done to predict or prevent mass shootings? How do you protect people in hard-to-secure public spaces? Hari Sreenivasan talks to security expert Russ Simons of Venue Solutions Group and Jeffrey Swanson of the Duke University School of…

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