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Even in pro-gun states, bid to arm teachers stalls
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When a gunman killed 26 children and staff at a Connecticut grade school, Missouri Rep. Mike Kelley quickly proposed legislation that would allow trained teachers to carry hidden guns into the classroom as a "line of...Tags: Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, Memorial Day, Gun Control
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NRA to sponsor NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Texas
The winner of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Texas Motor Speedway traditionally gets to fire a six-shooter in victory lane. And the pole winner gets a rifle as a prize. So it only makes sense that the National Rifle Assn. has become the...
Tags: Wes Welker, Gun Control, Interior Policy, NASCAR, Stock Car Racing
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Local Voices: Highland Park and Deerfield
Letters to the editor from Highland Park and Deerfield residents. NRA nonsense Those who favor gun control should be delighted that the National Rifle Association has chosen Wayne LaPierre as its spokesman and advocate to oppose gun control....Tags: Railway Transportation, Bonds, Shipbuilding, Cruise Line Ports, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Signs that the NRA is losing
Now that they're facing Washington's first serious push for new gun violence prevention laws since the Columbine massacre, gun lobbyists are grasping at straws — as in "straw" purchases. That's the slang for someone who legally buys a firearm from...
Tags: Laws, Criminals, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Interior Policy
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Conn. gun law seen as model for Congress, states
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines Thursday in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, a bipartisan deal that gun control...
Tags: Periodicals, U.S. Congress, Newspaper and Magazine, Laws, Dannel P. Malloy
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NRA-backed panel offers school safety gun measures
WASHINGTON— A National Rifle Assn.-backed task force unveiled a sweeping set of proposed school safety measures Tuesday, a counter to gun control bills introduced after the Connecticut mass shooting. The most attention-getting recommendation: to...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, White House, University of Hartford, American Civil Liberties Union, Gun Control
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Teachers packing heat
It is easy to dismiss the report released Tuesday by the National Rifle Association-financed school safety task force as nothing but an effort to change the topic from the broader issue of gun violence or especially gun control (even the watered-down...
Tags: Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Mental Health
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Alleged home invader shot to death, raising gun issues in Colorado
President Obama was in Colorado on Wednesday, hoping to use the recent enactment of gun-control legislation there as a way to spur support for his own package of proposals. But a politically purple state such as Colorado can also offer ammunition for...
Tags: Coral Springs, Murder, Lawyers, Medina (Saudi Arabia), Prisons
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NRA says more guns in schools will protect children
Think of the NRA’s newly proposed National School Shield initiative as a kiddie version of the National Missile Defense program. Star Wars for Schoolyards. A hail of bullets will protect everyone! After the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Murder, Weaponry, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Illegal Immigrants
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Standing up to the NRA
I have been chuckling at the hubris of the commentary about how New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is trying to "buy" the election here in the 2nd Congressional District. For many years now the NRA, under the auspices of Wayne LaPierre, has terrorized any...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Illinois Elections
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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: The Huffington Post, Sandy Hook Promise, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control
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An assault weapons ban was doomed. Focus on background checks.
WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote that the Senate was making quiet progress toward passing a gun control bill that would make background checks mandatory on buyers in almost all gun purchases, including most sales between individuals. And that,...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Congress, John McCain, NBC (tv network), Weaponry
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