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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(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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From TPM: Given a choice to vote “for” or “against” nine of President Obama’s key proposals to reform the nation’s gun laws, Americans support all of them, a new Gallup poll released Wednesday found. Notably, Americans back criminal background checks for gun sales 91% to 8%, more mental health programs…
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From Rachel Maddow’s Blog: A Pew Research Center report released late yesterday found a majority of Americans support a wide variety of new measures, some by enormous margins. For example, 85% of Americans favor making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks, while 80% support…
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From HuffPo: The proposal, which comes at the end of a month-long review process spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden, is broken down into four key subsections: law enforcement, the availability of dangerous firearms and ammunition, school safety and mental health. In an effort to touch on all four of…
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From AP: New York’s Assembly on Tuesday easily passed the toughest gun control law in the nation and the first since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, calling for a tougher assault weapons ban and provisions to try to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill who make…
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Diversity of Voice: Views on Guns in the United States The Warhol: Resources and Lessons (20)
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