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Americans and their guns
The 58% of Americans who favor a ban on assault weapons got a sad lesson in Washington politics this week when a major bill to end their sale, and to eliminate the high-capacity magazines that allow mass killers to do their awful work without pausing to...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Harry Reid, Assault, Gun Control, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Denying victims a vote
WASHINGTON -- Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn't make it right. In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke with fiery eloquence about the cost of gun...
Tags: Lobbying, Gaming, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reid: Background checks will be in Senate gun bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are taking an aggressive stance in their drive to curb firearms, announcing that the gun control legislation the Senate debates next month will include expanded federal background checks for gun purchasers. Senate...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms, Assault, Elections, Mark Kirk
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Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure
To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Rob Portman, Harry Reid, The Happiest News!, Harvey Milk
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Biden, Bloomberg lean on Congress to act on guns
Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate slowing momentum for gun control legislation, urged Congress on Thursday to be courageous in supporting new laws and insisted that the political risks of supporting such laws were overblown. Biden...
Tags: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, New York City, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Joe Biden, Harry Reid
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Letters: Failure of Feinstein's assault weapons ban
Re "Feinstein assault weapons ban fails," March 20 We all owe Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) great thanks for her pursuit of a federal assault weapons ban, but it is quite clear that if the horrific massacre in Connecticut in December didn't...Tags: Elections, Personal Weapon Control, Harry Reid, Chick Hearn, Assault
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Assault weapons ban loses round
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive. She...Tags: Milk (movie), Lobbying, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Health and Safety at School, Harry Reid
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Assault weapons ban to be dropped from Senate gun bill
WASHINGTON – An assault weapons ban will not be included in a package of gun safety legislation that will come to the Senate floor, the measure’s champion, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said Tuesday. The California Democrat said her party’s...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Newspaper and Magazine, Lobbying, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Harry Reid
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Letters: Guns and homicides
Re "Assault weapons ban advances," March 15 In supporting her bill to ban assault weapons, Sen. Dianne Feinstein recounts her experience as a San Francisco supervisor in 1978 with the senseless slayings of her colleagues Harvey Milk and Mayor George...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Assault, Harvey Milk, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Sens. Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein face off on gun control
Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a tea party darling, evidently is so proud of his exchange with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during the Senate Judiciary Committee's session Thursday, he posted a video of it on YouTube. At issue was the...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Firearms, Gun Control
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Senate committee approves assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON — A federal ban on assault weapons cleared a Democratic-run Senate committee Thursday in a party-line vote after its chief sponsor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the 2nd Amendment. “I&...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Crime, Law and Justice, Harvey Milk, Assault, Gun Control
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4 million assault weapons in America: That should be enough
Let’s just be clear: No regular American needs an assault weapon for home defense. So why is there so much resistance on this? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a ban -- introduced by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein -- on...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Lindsey O. Graham, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Gun Control
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