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  • Gov’t gets poor marks on protecting gun rights

    09/20/2013 9:24:46 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 8 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Sep 20, 2013 3:38 AM EDT | Nancy Benac and Jennifer Agiesta
    A New Jersey college student wants Congress to stand strong against tougher gun laws. A Colorado software executive thinks the federal government goes too far in protecting gun rights. A child-care worker in Wisconsin just wants the shootings in her city to stop. Even as the debate over tightening national gun control laws is rekindled after the latest mass shooting, a growing number of Americans are questioning the government’s stewardship of the right to bear arms, according to a poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. … Overall, 44 percent of Americans think the federal government is doing...
  • Andrew Cuomo pushing hard for a breakthrough in adopting the toughest gun controls in the nation

    12/21/2012 12:44:53 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 36 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | Thursday, December 20, 2012, 10:24 PM | Jonathan Lemire and Kenneth Lovett
    Gov. Cuomo is pushing for New York to adopt, by one measure, the toughest gun controls in the nation—and he may have help from across the aisle to do it, the Daily News has learned. Cuomo is in talks with legislative leaders to expand the state’s ban on assault weapons and to outlaw gun magazines containing more than seven bullets, sources said. That would be more restrictive than the toughest limits now on the books—laws in New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii and the District of Columbia permitting magazines that allow for the rapid fire of as many as 10 bullets. …...