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solutions to help prevent gun violence In the wake of Parkland and countless other tragedies it s all too clear that we need to take action to protect our communities from gun violence Students and parents...needing to reload Owners may keep existing magazines The bill makes exemptions for more than 2 200 guns for hunting household defense or recreational purposes and includes a grandfather clause that exempts...assault weapon covered by the bill Requires that grandfathered assault weapons are s...Continue Reading

and now to a small church in Texas we have seen holes in the background record check system allow guns to get in the hands of people who shouldn t have access to them Kaine said Our background record check...Violence Reporting Enhancement Act would help close one of those loopholes and protect Americans from gun violence Federal civilian law mandates that those convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence...reported under the federal law that keeps those convicted of domestic violence c...Continue Reading

permits gun sales to proceed if a background check is not completed after 72 hours even if the gun buyer is not legally allowed to purchase a gun The gap in existing law has allowed thousands of gun sales...s deadly attack at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston South Carolina in 2015 Roof was able to buy a gun because of the FBI s failure to complete his background check within the three business days allotted...said While no single legislative action can solve the problem of gun violence this comm...Continue Reading

Americans Safe Act a commonsense bill that bans the importation sale manufacture transfer or possession of gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition and are designed for shooting en masse In what...on a rampage Sen Kaine said We should pass this commonsense bill and other measures to curb deadly gun violence like the tragic shooting in Las Vegas last week For too long Congress has done nothing to...

Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined U S Senator Dianne Feinstein D CA to introduce the Automatic Gun Fire Prevention Act a bill to close a loophole that allows semi automatic weapons to be easily modified...similar accessories that accelerate a semi automatic rifle s rate of fire Fully automatic machine guns have been strictly regulated since 1986 under President Reagan This bill will fix an egregious loophole...would help curb deadly gun violence by closing a dangerous loophole that allow...Continue Reading

improving mental health policy and passing commonsense measures to curb gun violence including requiring background record checks prior to gun purchases and improving the number and accuracy of records submitted...sponsored the CDC Research on Firearms Safety or Gun Violence Prevention Act a bill that would lift the de facto twenty year ban on research into firearms safety and gun violence prevention at the CDC Print Email...

improving mental health policy and passing commonsense measures to curb gun violence including requiring background record checks prior to gun purchases and improving the number and accuracy of records submitted...sponsored the CDC Research on Firearms Safety or Gun Violence Prevention Act a bill that would lift the de facto twenty year ban on research into firearms safety and gun violence prevention at the CDC Print Email...

which Edmonds replied We are all Jews here 8 The German officer took out his pistol and pointed the gun at the head of Edmonds but Edmonds refused to identify the Jewish soldiers Instead Edmonds responded...

see our relationship with guns for what it is His traveling art installation of modern sculptures photographs paintings video and mixed media uses more than 180 decommissioned guns mostly bought through the...Orleans Police Department s buyback program as raw material The art is also captured in a new book Guns in the Hands of Artists Like the mission Picasso had in creating Guernica to raise critical awareness...number who die from car accidents each year according to the Centers for Disease Co...Continue Reading

in a letter urging Senate leadership to remove from the funding bills any measures that undermine gun safety research including one known as the Dickey amendment A 1996 Republican appropriations rider...advocate or promote gun control Many have misconstrued the rider as banning federal research into the causes of gun violence Rep Dickey R Ark has publicly stated that he now supports funding gun violence prevention...in a position to establish an integrated public health research agenda to unders...Continue Reading