From WashingtonPost: The marketplace for firearms on the Internet, where buyers are not required to undergo background checks, is so vast that advocates for stricter regulations now consider online sales a greater threat than the gun show loophole. A new study by Third Way, a centrist think tank with close…
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From ThinkProgress: Will Weatherford, the Republican speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives, revealed on Friday that the state’s legislature will hold hearings on its infamous “Stand Your Ground” laws sometime this fall. While the announcement came buried in one sentence of a defensive opinion piece published this past Thursday in…
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(Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) The petition, with the lower court opinions attached, is now available, and can be read here. It is a large file. From ScotusBlog: The National Rifle Association and two individuals under the age of twenty-one have asked the Supreme Court to strike down a federal law that bans…
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