Monday’s deadly school shooting in Nashville has sparked a familiar cycle of condolences and calls to action among lawmakers in Washington, but both sides of the aisle have been quick to concede that the recent violence is probably not enough to sway a divided Congress to move substantive gun control efforts forward.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday as an associate justice to the United States Supreme Court, making history as the first Black woman on the highest court in the nation.
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(CNN) — Joe Biden got into a testy exchange Tuesday with a worker in Detroit who falsely accused the former vice president of wanting to confiscate guns from Americans, a remark that caused the Democratic presidential hopeful to say the man was “full of s***.” The spat came during a campaign stop at a Fiat Chrysler assembly […]
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(CNN) — Days after former Vice President and current Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden said he would partner with former US Rep. Beto O’Rourke to help combat gun violence, Republican congressman Ken Buck dared the duo to come “take” the semi-automatic rifle he keeps on his office wall. In a video posted to his Twitter account on Friday, Buck, a Republican […]
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(CNN) — A group of gun safety bills in Virginia are headed to the governor’s desk for his signature after passing the state General Assembly in recent days, the last hurdle in a series of legislative steps needed to finalize the measures into law. The bills, part of a bundle of policies known as the “Governor’s […]
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(CNN) — The Supreme Court left in place on Monday President Donald Trump’s ban on bump stocks, turning away an appeal from owners of the device and gun rights groups. Last year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banned bump stock devices — attachments that essentially allow shooters to fire semiautomatic rifles continuously with one pull of […]
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Over 200,000 background checks for gun purchases were initiated on Black Friday, making this the second-highest day of checks ever, according to data released by the FBI. The data said 202,465 total checks were started Friday, falling short of the record set on 2017’s Black Friday with 203,086. Black Friday is typically the biggest day of the […]
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While investigators continued working to figure out why a 16-year-old boy shot five of classmates at Saugus High School, killing two of them, before turning the gun on himself, schools in the Santa Clarita area remained closed Friday in a day of mourning. Meanwhile, doctors at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills said […]
