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Arizona law bans destroying guns purchased in buyback programs
This post has been corrected. See the note below.TUCSON — City- or county-sponsored gun buybacks — often used in larger cities to entice people to give up their handguns — have become effectively pointless in Arizona with legislation signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. The bill prohibits...Tags: Safeway Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House of Representatives, National Rifle Association of America, Jared Lee Loughner
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Giffords accepts Kennedy 'Profile in Courage' award
Courage comes in many guises. In Boston on Sunday, Gabrielle Giffords was praised for having the courage just to carry on. "It’s been a hard two years for me, but I want to make the world a better place," said Giffords in receiving the 2013...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, National Rifle Association of America, John F. Kennedy, Mark Kelly
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Taggants: Still a better way to track a bomber
A number of commenters on the online version of our April 28 Op-Ed, "A better way to track a bomber," argue against the use of taggants to trace explosives because the suspects in the Boston bombings, the Tsarnaev brothers, were identified through...
Tags: Explosions, FBI, Safeway Inc., Emergency Incidents
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In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control
HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Max Baucus, U.S. Senate, Democratic Party, National Rifle Association of America
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Obama: Senate gun vote marks 'shameful day in Washington'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama declared it a “shameful day for Washington” on Wednesday after the Senate defeated an effort to expand background checks for people trying to purchase guns. Standing in the White House's Rose Garden with...
Tags: Chuck Grassley, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate, Joe Biden
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Boston: News organizations' race to be first leads to stumbles
Sports radio personality Dan Patrick often jokes that the motto of his news team is, "Fast and wrong is still fast." Too often these days that slogan could be used to describe real news organizations. The latest example came Wednesday when false reports...
Tags: News Agency, Fox News Channel (tv network), NPR, CNN (tv network), Radio
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Cowardly Senate runs away from gun background checks
Polls indicate that 80% to 90% of Americans support expanded background checks for firearms sales, but on Wednesday such a plan could not get 60 votes in the United States Senate. In the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by families of children gunned...
Tags: Heidi Heitkamp, Max Baucus, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Democratic Party
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Lobbying, Max Baucus, U.S. Congress, Richard A. Gephardt, U.S. Senate
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Obama arrives in Boston on a mission of healing and commemoration
BOSTON -- In a gesture of healing and commemoration, President Obama arrived on Thursday in Boston, a city still reeling from the shock of a bombing that turned a holiday into a terrorist attack. Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, the president landed...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Mitt Romney, Sports, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Roman Catholicism
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Senate showdown set on gun control
WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...
Tags: Lisa Murkowski, Max Baucus, Lobbying, U.S. Senate, National Rifle Association of America
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Kay Hagan, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, National Rifle Association of America
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Tucson shooting: 3,000 pages of sought-after records made public
TUCSON -- More than two years after a gunman opened fire in Tucson killing six and seriously wounding former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities on Wednesday released thousands of pages of records about the case that had previously been kept private....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, National Rifle Association of America, Judges, Mark Kelly
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