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High-tech guns would allow users to track and disable their weapons remotely
AP National WriterSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely. The technology, but not an actual...Tags: Electronics, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Weaponry
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"Sandy Hook Green" Nail Polish Meant To Show Support
Sandy Hook Promise, the Connecticut organization founded following the Newtown massacre, continues to expand their brand and advance their mission, most recently with the release of a limited-edition nail polish, "Sandy Hook Green." Leading nail product...
Tags: Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Labor Legislation, Interior Policy, Personal Service
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Keeping A Mother's Promise
The gravity of the moment that comes with holding your child for the first time — looking into their eyes, rocking them to sleep, allowing their breath to fill your heart, marveling at how nature has taken a part of you and a part of your husband to...
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Mother's Day, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Superman (fictional character)
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LETTER: How We Can Help Our Gun Manufacturers
There is concern that Connecticut's new, stricter gun laws will affect our gun manufacturers and their approximately 3,000 employees. Some ask whether the state should provide financial help to them so that they will not move out of Connecticut (never...Tags: Interior Policy, Gun Control, Career and Workplace, Politics, Labor Legislation
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Stirred by a message from the heart
WASHINGTON -- In a city where David's righteousness almost never beats Goliath's might, what Nicole Hockley and the other Sandy Hook families did to the gun lobby last week was nigh unto miraculous. Gun-control legislation had appeared to be a lost...
Tags: Justice System, Chris Murphy, Barack Obama, Autism, Republican Party
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Newtown Families Make Their Case In Washington
The Hartford CourantWASHINGTON — At the end of an emotional day of deeply personal meetings with senators Wednesday, families of victims of the Newtown school massacre sat down for a public conversation with Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who had just...Tags: James Inhofe, Democratic Party, Chris Murphy, Barack Obama, Gun Control
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President Obama to meet with families of Sandy Hook victims
HARTFORD, Conn. -- President Obama will meet Monday with family members of victims killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to talk about their efforts to persuade Congress to pass gun control measures in response to the tragedy....
Tags: Barack Obama, Justice System, University of Hartford, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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Sandy Hook families push for votes on gun control
WASHINGTON -- Family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims are bewildered that Congress is still struggling to pass stricter gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday afternoon. Speaking to a room full of police in uniform at a White House event,...
Tags: Gun Control, U.S. Senate, White House, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Elections
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Gun Control, Weaponry, Agriculture, National Rifle Association of America
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U.S. senator rips NRA for making robocalls to Newtown residents
The National Rifle Assn. is taking heat from a U.S. senator after accusations that the organization robocalled Newtown, Conn., residents and urged them to oppose gun-control legislation. Stricter gun laws have been proposed in legislatures all over...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America, Adam Lanza, Politics
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Newtown families speak out on Monday’s ‘Katie’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelKatie Couric's Monday episode of her daytime show is called “Voices from Newtown.” Couric talks to residents of Newtown, Conn., about how they are coping after the massacre in which 26 persons died at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December. ... -
Special episode of “Katie” brings Katie Couric back to Newtown
Channel Guide MagazineIn “Voices From Newtown,” a special episode of her syndicated talk show, Katie, Katie Couric will return to Newtown, Conn., nearly three months following the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, to remember those who were lost and...
May 21, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 15, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 8, 2013
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Apr 9, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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Mar 25, 2013
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Mar 4, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
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