NRA courts women: Pink rifles, concealed carry purses on display at convention
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HOUSTON — At this weekend’s National Rifle Association Convention, Carrie Bradshaw met Annie Oakley.
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We can now 3-D print a gun – what’s next?
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With a shot heard round the Internet, the first known 3-D printed gun is a reality. But the bigger ruckus comes from the gun’s digital blueprints, now available for free download by any shooters who want to build their own.
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Gun rights group hopes to arm Chicago, other major U.S. cities
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As talks of gun rights and gun violence spark controversy throughout the nation and Chicago, a Houston-based gun advocate group is hoping to get into the line of fire.
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‘Stand and fight’: NRA sets sights on election
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The National Rifle Association is calling its members to arms for what they say is the next battle in a prolonged war to protect gun rights: the 2014 congressional elections.
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How young is too young to shoot a gun?
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This week a 5-year-old Kentucky boy accidentally killed his sister with a rifle made specifically for kids, shedding light on an emerging firearms market.
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Sandy Hook daughter confronts senator: Mom being gunned down isn’t enough?
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who voted against expanding background checks on gun sales, was confronted by the daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary’s slain principal at a rowdy town hall in New Hampshire.
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Senate shelves gun bill after defeats
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Four months and four days after the Newtown shootings, the U.S. Senate has indefinitely shelved major gun legislation.
The move follows the 54-46 defeat of a compromise to expand background checks, the most critical of a series of amendments that failed to pass the Senate on Wednesday.
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Obama on Senate background-check failure: ‘A pretty shameful day for Washington’
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Despite an impassioned push by President Barack Obama and an emotional lobbying effort by the families of mass shooting victims, proponents of a compromise measure to expand gun background checks on Wednesday fell six votes short of passage in the Senate.
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Obama on gun control: After Newtown, ‘I feel personally responsible’
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President Obama expressed confidence in passage of a bill that would make major changes to the nation’s immigration system, in an exclusive TODAY interview conducted days before key senators introduced sweeping legislation on the issue.
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BREAKING: Key gun-control vote passes in Senate
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The Senate votes 68 to 31 on a procedural measure to begin debate of a proposed law that would expand background checks for gun sales and strengthen mental-health and school-safety programs.
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Senators to announce background check deal
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Two key senators have reached a deal to expand background checks to firearms sales at gun shows and on the Internet, sources close to the negotiations said early Wednesday.
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As Obama presses Congress on gun controls, McConnell says he’d join GOP filibuster
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With the families of children killed in last year’s Newtown school shooting looking on, President Barack Obama on Monday made an emotional plea for Americans to urge Congress to pass new gun control measures.
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Connecticut governor signs comprehensive gun control legislation
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy signed a broad new package of gun laws Thursday in the state where 20 children and 6 educators were slain in a brutal school shooting nearly four months ago.
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