The comment came about a month after the mass shooting that killed 23 people and injured dozens more in El Paso.
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Republican attorneys general push Visa, Mastercard, AmEx not to track gun sales
Gun control advocates have argued that separately categorizing store sales could potentially flag a surge of suspicious sales activity to safety officials.
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New York to restrict gun carrying after Supreme Court ruling
New York City will begin posting signs proclaiming the iconic tourist destination Times Square as a ‘Gun Free Zone.’
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New report details missed chances to stop Uvalde shooting
A new report on the Uvalde elementary school massacre in Texas says a police officer had a chance to open fire on the gunman but missed it while waiting for permission to shoot.
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Highlights of bipartisan gun violence bill signed by Biden
The law is wide-ranging but chiefly makes modest changes in existing programs.
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Ghastly shootings, political forces align to prompt gun deal
Last month’s mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have produced a groundswell for change in Congress.
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Maine Voices: From under a desk, a silent student bears witness with a poem
The children are watching, a teacher pleads, and they can see we are not keeping them safe.
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Senate bargainers divided over details of gun deal
Democratic and Republican senators struggle to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for their self-imposed deadline of holding votes in Congress next week.
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Maine Voices: Lawmakers should ban assault-style weapons
The common factor in all mass shootings is not mental illness but access to guns, a child psychiatrist writes.
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Tentative Senate gun deal has surprises, and loose ends
The plan reflects election-year pressure to act, which both parties feel after mass shootings in May killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York, and 21 more in Uvalde, Texas.