More than nine in 10 Americans favor mandatory background checks for purchases at gun shows, according to a poll out today. The ABC News/Washington Post survey showed 91 percent supporting such checks, with 8 percent opposing them. Making illegal gun...
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Gun show goers look at various assault-style weapons at the Nation's Gun Show in Chantilly, Virginia.
Background Checks for Gun-Buyers: Poll Finds Overwhelming Support
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A person uses a cell phone to photograph assault style weapons before a press conference on Capitol Hill on Jan. 24, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 39
That’s how many current senators were serving in the Senate when it sought nine years ago to extend a ban on certain semiautomatic “assault weapons.” In March 2004, the Senate voted 52-47 for a 10-year extension of a ban on...
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Retired NASA astronaut and Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, right, and his wife, shooting victim and former Rep. Gabby Giffords arrive for a Senate Judiciary Committee followed by Chairman Patrick Leahy and ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley before hearing about gun control on Capitol Hill on Jan. 30, 2013.
Giffords on Gun Control: ‘Time is Now’
“The time is now.” The words of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was grievously wounded in a gunman’s attack in Tucson in2011, appearing today at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “You must act,” Giffords told the...
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