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The Senate passed a bill Friday that allows guns to be carried closer to schools, even though the governor may veto it.
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A U.S. congressman is lending support to a teen girl accused of funneling guns to a New York City drug gang.
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Someone visiting the bathroom at Front Range Community College entered armed and left unarmed this week.
A loaded handgun was left on the back of a toilet in a campus bathroom.
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Two AK-47 assault rifles found near where a U.S. Border Patrol officer was fatally shot were among hundreds of guns federal authorities let pass into the hands of known and suspected gun traffickers in a flawed attempt to track the weapons to Mexican drug cartels, a U.S. senator says.
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In response to the attorney general’s recent decision that would make gun records public, state Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Hinsdale, is calling on interim Illinois State Police Director Patrick Keen to stay the release of gun owners’ personal information until the Legislature can weigh in.
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Police say they arrested a 17-year-old high school student with a loaded semi-automatic handgun in his classroom Tuesday morning, the fourth student to be arrested in two months in gun-related incidents.
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"In this era of Big Brotherism, I am concerned that the list will not only be used by commercial solicitors, but could be used by criminals to identify which homes might contain a firearm, so they know which homes to systematically burglarize," Dillard said in a statement today. He also predicted that some gun owners might fail to register their guns as required by law if they know their names will be made public.
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The Tennessee Senate passed a bill Monday that would nudge businesses to be more a little more lenient to one type of employee: Concealed carry permit holders who'd like to bring their handguns to work.
A bill passed on Monday says that employers who allow concealed carry permit holders to bring their guns to work would not be creating a workplace hazard.
WSMV.com reports that the bill cleared the Senate 30-1 and now moves on to the state House.
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More than 30 people, including roughly a dozen children, attended Saturday’s event. The gun safety course featured videos and presentations by Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland and Vern Manning, a hunter safety instructor.
“We want the children to respect a gun,” Friend said. “We all try to teach our children don’t play with matches. But we seldom teach them don’t play with guns.”
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A 911 call came in the Richmond Police department Sunday night and a shaken elderly woman said, "They broke in, they broke the door down. Send someone out here quick. Please."
The 84-year old woman lives alone and is very sharp and independent. Before making that 911 call, she'd already taken action.
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The state legislature was expected to debate a bill that would make it a crime to openly carry a firearm in public.
It’s been legal to openly carry a firearm in California since 1968. If the legislature votes to ban it, gun rights supporters said they expect a hefty legal challenge.
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A bill that would give all legal gunowners in Colorado the option to carry a concealed weapon without a permit cleared committee on Thursday with bipartisan support.
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A bill that would let Utahns carry concealed weapons in the state without having to have a concealed-carry permit stalled in committee Thursday, but its sponsor thinks he can still get the bill passed this session.
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A Florida man's unwanted introduction to New York's gun laws ended Thursday with him being cleared of a weapon-possession charge stemming from a pistol he said he'd forgotten he had in his glove compartment.
