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AP finds few states follow mental health gun law
ATLANTA (AP) — Records obtained by The Associated Press show more than half the states are not complying with a post-Virginia Tech law that requires them to share the names of mentally ill people with the national background-check system. The...Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Gun Control
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott should be fired up to sign this reasonable gun bill
It's not often a Florida governor gets caught in the crossfire between gun enthusiasts and the National Rifle Association. Unfortunately, that's where Gov. Rick Scott finds himself, thanks to a reasonable gun-control bill awaiting his signature. HB 1355...
Tags: National Government, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Executive Branch
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Sneak peek: Ads supporting gun law set to air this week
The Baltimore SunA hunter, a mother and a minister are featured in new advertisements touting Maryland's new gun law, which was signed last week and represents one of the nation's most sweeping pieces of gun-control legislation passed this year. The ads, released in...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Lawyers, Interior Policy, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Man refused overdraft kills four in Israeli bank
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead four people execution-style in a bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine. The assailant, identified by media reports as a former paramilitary border...Tags: Interior Policy, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shootings, Politics
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Parties and Movements, Politics, Barack Obama
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Newtown parents join Quinn to call for ban on high-capacity ammo magazines
Tribune reporterThe grieving mother of a 6-year-old killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School joined Illinois Democrats on Sunday in calling for a statewide ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines. Nicole Hockley choked up when discussing the December...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics, Executive Branch
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Letters to the editor: Rubio, firetrucks, and guns
Wednesday letter-writer Rick Gonzalez should be advised that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is for whatever he thinks will advance his political hopes. His education plan, when it comes to political moves, is peanuts compared with his no vote, along with 44...Tags: Interior Policy, Lifestyle and Leisure, Politics, Oviedo, Firearms
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Big 5 bets on smaller, easily accessible stores
Sometimes smaller is better. That's the philosophy of Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp., which owns 415 sporting-goods stores in 12 states, about half of them in California. The El Segundo company believes that operating a large number of easily accessible,...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Interior Policy, Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, Marketing, Politics
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Mail Call - May 20
“I don’t understand how the judicial system works, when someone is arrested for drunken driving and kills a female passenger that was in the car, and gets six months probation — and then someone gets 14 months in jail for robbery....Tags: Interior Policy, The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Politics, Teachers
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25 years -- and a surge in school violence -- since Laurie Dann shootings
Phil Andrew knows what it's like to negotiate with insanity. On May 20, 1988, he and his mother were in their kitchen in Winnetka when Laurie Dann burst in, a gun with each hand, and told them they were hostages. She was wearing a trash bag around her...
Tags: Interior Policy, Health and Safety at School, Safety of Citizens, Politics, Shootings
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More guns used in suicides than homicides
When people think of gun violence, they typically think of a masked robber or a disturbed young man with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. In truth, the most common victim of fatal gun violence is a distraught man who, alone in a...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Politics, Homes, Crime, Law and Justice
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