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New Jersey's Tough Gun Laws Just Got Even Stronger

A newly enacted package of legislation includes a red flag law, expanded background checks and additional restrictions on ammunition magazines.
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Trump Gun Proposal Probably Won't Include Universal Background Checks

The president seemed to endorse the idea less than two weeks ago
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Dozens Of White House Staffers Stripped Of Top Level Security Clearance

The staffers with pending background checks were downgraded to a lower-level “secret” interim security clearance, Bloomberg reports.
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This Is What A Serious Gun Violence Policy Would Look Like

It's not as simple as expanding background checks.
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Trump's Budget Cuts Millions Of Dollars From Gun Background Check System

This would "significantly undermine" efforts to keep firearms out of dangerous hands, gun control advocates say.
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Study Points To The Most Effective Way Of Reducing Gun Deaths

"Stand your ground" laws and the like tend to raise the number of gun deaths, the study found.
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Loretta Lynch Urges Top Lawyers To Strengthen Gun Background Check System

"The bottom line is the more records that are available, the more that we will all enhance the safety and security of the states that we serve."
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Study Finds States With Background Checks Have Fewer Mass Shootings

Here's one common-sense fix to a recurring American nightmare.
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