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The U.S. Department of Justice has been in a years-long fight to decrease violent gun crimes. And now, it's targeting domestic violence abusers.
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ERPOs are designed as an intervention in a time of crisis. He says it only made things worse.
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Political ads referencing guns increased eightfold over four election cycles.
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As a number of states pass increased gun restrictions, the firearms industry is reacting by moving operations to more gun-friendly places.
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Federal law prohibits people subject to protective orders for certain domestic violence offenses from purchasing or possessing a gun. But only if those orders have been made permanent.
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The U.S. passed an ominous milestone in 2018. A record 24,432 people died by firearm suicide, marking the first time that more than 24,000 people have died by firearm suicide.
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In its annual scorecard ranking the strength of state gun laws, the gun control advocacy group Giffords boosted ratings for a handful of states in the Midwest and West.
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The new laws often don’t lay out a process for actually seizing the guns, leaving local law enforcement to figure out for themselves how to manage confrontations.
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In 2017, 39,773 people died by firearm, the highest number of firearm deaths recorded since the CDC started tracking them in 1979. In 2018, an almost identical 39,741 people died by firearm.
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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is leading a coalition of 21 states, including Oregon, Connecticut and Washington, D.C., in a federal lawsuit against the Trump Administration over newly announced arms export rules.