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Guns In Your Home: A Statistical Accident Waiting To Happen

Over 70 percent of the time a minor is killed by a gun, the gun used was housed in that minor’s own home.

2013/05/15

File photo of Erica Lafferty, left. (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Newtown Families: We’ll Keep Fighting For Gun Law

Some families who lost loved ones in December’s massacre at a Connecticut elementary school say they are very disappointed by the Senate’s defeat of expanded background checks for gun sales and vow to continue their fight.

2013/04/21

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., speaks at a press conference with Congress members from Connecticut and a group of 26 cyclists who rode from Newtown, Conn., in support of common-sense solutions to gun violence on March 12, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (credit: T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images)

Dem Senator Wants Fox Not To Broadcast NRA-Sponsored NASCAR Race

A U.S. senator from Connecticut has sent a letter to media mogul Rupert Murdoch asking that Fox network not broadcast Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race sponsored by the National Rifle Association.

2013/04/12

A man holds up a sign with with a depiction of an assault weapon during a rally at the Connecticut State Capital to promote gun control legislation in the wake of the December 14, 2012, school shooting in Newtown on February 14, 2013 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Newtown Residents Upset About NRA Robocalls

Some residents of the Connecticut community devastated by December’s school shooting said they’re outraged over robocalls they’ve received from the National Rifle Association only three months after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

2013/03/25

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre issued a challenge to the national news media, saying that coverage of gun control is skewed against gun owners’ Constitutional rights.(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

NRA’s LaPierre Challenges National News Media On Biased Gun Control Coverage

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre challenged the national news media, saying that coverage of gun control is skewed against gun owners’ Constitutional rights.

2013/03/25

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Gun Owners Ask Lawmakers To Tread Lightly

The National Rifle Association is stepping up its lobbying efforts in Connecticut since the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, helping to bus gun rights supporters to the state Capitol as legislative leaders try […]

2013/03/11

File photo of National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. (Photo by PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

NRA Steps Up Lobbying Efforts In Conn.

The National Rifle Association is stepping up its lobbying efforts in Connecticut since the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, helping to bus gun rights supporters to the state Capitol as legislative leaders try to craft a bipartisan response to the massacre.

2013/03/11

President Obama Proposes Sweeping Changes To Curb Gun Violence

President Barack Obama has unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

2013/01/16

National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre calls on Congress to pass a law putting armed police officers in every school in America during a news conference at the Willard Hotel on Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington, D.C. (credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

University Professor: ‘I Want Wayne LaPierre’s Head On A Stick’

The president of the University of Rhode Island has issued a statement supporting the right of a professor to express his views after he called for the National Rifle Association CEO’s “head on a stick.”

2012/12/25

File photo of NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. (credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

NH School Official Chief Scoffs At NRA Proposal

A New Hampshire school superintendent is skeptical about the National Rifle Association’s idea to put armed security personnel in every school as a bulwark against gun violence.

2012/12/22

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