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Mar 08 2024
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuits challenging Washington's gun sale, distribution law
According to the Washington Attorney General, seven lawsuits were filed in total against the gun control law. SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal judge dismissed challenges to Washington's new gun laws involving the sale and distribution of guns in Washington. The National Shooting Sports Foundation tried to block Senate Bill 5078 from going into effect. The law said gun sellers must go through more
KREMFeb 23 2024
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A judge has dismissed Fargo's challenge to North Dakota restrictions on local gun control
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by North Dakota's largest city that challenged a new law banning zoning ordinances related to guns and ammunition. Fargo sued last year, calling the law unconstitutional and a swipe at the city's home rule powers. State District Judge Cherie Clark on Tuesday granted the state's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the city's
QuartzMar 23 2024
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Kamala Harris Visits Parkland and Urges States to Adopt Red-Flag Gun Laws
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday toured the still-bloody and bullet-pocked classroom building in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman killed 14 students and three staff members in 2018, using the grim backdrop to announce a new federal resource center and to call for stricter enforcement of gun laws. The freshman building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had been preserved as evidence
New York Times (News)Mar 07 2024
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New law: SC adults can openly carry guns
COLUMBIA — Any adult who can legally own a gun can now carry one openly in South Carolina after Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill into law Thursday, just a day after it received final legislative approval. Gun rights supporters have pushed for the law for nearly a decade, first allowing open carry for people who took the training to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Encouraging that
The Times and DemocratNov 22 2023
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Judge blocks America's 'most extreme' gun control law, but blue state plans to appeal
An Oregon judge blocked the state from enforcing a voter-approved law dubbed the nation's "most extreme" gun control measure by critics, ruling it violates the state constitution. "This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Article I, section 27 and its continued protection of our right to bear arms," Tony Aiello Jr., who represented two Harney County gun owners in the case, told Fox News via
Fox News (Online News)Jul 30 2022
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These are the gun control laws passed in 2022 so far
(CNN)Several mass shootings and a sustained rise in gun violence across the United States have spurred law enforcement officials and lawmakers to push for more gun control measures.
President Joe Biden in June signed into law the first major gun safety legislation passed in decades. The measure failed to ban any weapons, but it includes funding for school safety and state crisis
CNN (Online News)Aug 04 2020
Background
Do gun control laws reduce crime?
This discussion debates the hypothesis that 'stricter gun regulation reduces crime' and aims to list the pros and cons of this proposition.
Americans own about half the world’s civilian guns. No other country comes even remotely close to the number of guns per resident in the United States. As a result, the rate of gun homicides and suicides in America is significantly higher than in
KialoAug 03 2020
Top Argument
Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?
The United States has 120.5 guns per 100 people, or about 393,347,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women). America’s pervasive gun culture stems in part from its colonial history, revolutionary roots, frontier expansion, and the Second Amendment, which states: “A well regulated militia, being
ProCon.orgMar 05 2024
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New Mexico governor signs gun control bill months after attempt to suspend right to carry
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) signed two bills aimed at restricting gun usage in the state into law on Monday, months after she attempted to limit the right to carry firearms in most public places. House Bill 129 (which extends the waiting period to purchase a firearm in the state to seven days) and Senate Bill 5 (which bans firearms within 100 feet of a polling place or ballot box) were
Washington Examiner