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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

California bill would make gunowners buy liability insurance

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

California would be the first state to require gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover the negligent or accidental use of their firearms, if lawmakers approve a measure announced Thursday.

“Guns kill more people than cars. Yet gun owners are not required to carry liability insurance like car owners must,” Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner said in a statement.

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