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Commentary: On gun control, young people might be our last hope

Anna Pham is not your typical activist. At just 11 years old, she became passionate about gun control after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Joining other teens in March for Our Lives, a national student-led movement against gun violence, Anna turned to activism because…

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George Skelton: Will California gun control legislation survive the Supreme Court ruling? Time will tell

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gun control bills have been shooting through the state Legislature at rapid-fire speed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is eager to sign them. But it’s anyone’s guess how many will survive this Supreme Court.

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Aspiring nurse named as mother shot dead while pushing her baby in stroller on Upper East Side

Azsia Johnson, 20, died on Wednesday night after she reportedly planned to meet up with the father of her three-month-old baby

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Baby’s father is person of interest in fatal shooting of Azsia Johnson on Upper East Side, reports say

Victim was reportedly planning to meet the father of her three-month-old baby on the night she was shot and killed

The Independent UK

Gun-makers face new legal threat from families of mass shooting victims

Families of children and teachers killed in last month’s Texas school massacre face a formidable legal battle if they decide to sue the gun-maker whose AR-15 semi-automatic rifle was used in the attack.

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GOP senator Thom Tillis is pushing back on Trump on guns. Why the North Carolina Republican think it’s time to act

The Republican senator who helped negotiate the first major piece of gun legislation in 28 years talks with Eric Garcia about bipartisanship, why Trump shouldn’t oppose the gun bill and why he supported a primary challenge against Madison Cawthorn

The Independent UK

American gun culture is based on frontier mythology – but ignores how common gun restrictions were in the Old West

In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, 70% of Republicans said it is more important to protect gun rights than to control gun violence, while 92% of Democrats and 54% of independents expressed the opposite view. Just weeks after those mass shootings, Republicans and gun rights advocates…

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We asked 5 students: What inspired you to become a gun control activist?

NPR spoke with high school and college students who have been impacted by gun violence, and are now working to make sure others won't be.

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Erika D. Smith: Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public?

Nathan W. Jones leads the Bay Area chapter of the Black Gun Owners Association. But until a few years ago, he wasn't even into guns.

Los Angeles Times

First bipartisan gun control bill in a generation signed into law: 3 essential reads on what it means

President Joe Biden signed into law on June 25, 2022, a bipartisan bill that is the first significant change in federal gun legislation in nearly three decades.

The Conversation

Protests sweep across nation as supreme court overturns Roe v Wade – as it happened

Landmark ruling split on ideological lines, with six conservatives voting in favor and three liberals dissenting – follow all the latest news

The Guardian - US

Gun control: What is in the new bipartisan firearms legislation passed by the Senate?

Breakthrough bill drafted after Buffalo and Uvalde atrocities voted through upper chamber 65-33

The Independent UK

Gun control takes 1 step forward in Congress, 2 steps back at SCOTUS

Gun-control advocates may have lost more at the court than they won in the Senate.

Axios

Gabby Giffords documentary comes as gun debates stay on center stage

The film on the former Arizona congresswoman and her recovery from the 2011 shooting explains how she navigated gun control campaigns and later a Senate campaign.

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The Independent UK

States brace for fight over gun laws after high court ruling

Governors, lawmakers and attorneys general in states with strict gun-permitting laws are strategizing over how to shore up their restrictions after Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision expanded gun rights in a New York case

ABC News

US Senate passes gun safety bill as Supreme Court loosens handgun limits

The US Senate passes the first significant gun control legislation in three decades as the Supreme Court rules Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defence.

Dynamite News

US: Senate passes bipartisan gun control bill

The US Senate passed bipartisan legislation to impose new gun control measures that would tighten background checks. Full story on Dynamite News:

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The House has passed the gun control bill. The next stop is Biden's desk

The House approved the bipartisan bill 234-193 exactly one month after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. It's the first gun control measure to come out of Congress in nearly three decades.

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Channel 4 reporter told 'go back to your own country' by Republican politician in gun row

Channel 4's Washington correspondent Siobhan Kennedy was told to 'go back to your own country' by US Republican Party politician Marjorie Taylor Greene during a gun control press conference

Los Angeles Times

California leaders vow new gun restrictions after Supreme Court ruling threatens state law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Thursday pledged to work with the governor and lawmakers to pass new gun control legislation “to keep Californians safe” in response to a Supreme Court ruling that weakens requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed weapon in the state.

The Guardian - US

Cruel timing for Biden as court’s gun ruling clouds breakthrough in Congress

President ‘deeply disappointed’ by justices’ decision as bipartisan bill to strengthen gun safety appears ready to pass

The Guardian - US

Seth Meyers on Trump’s inner circle: ‘These people are such bad scam artists’

Late-night hosts discuss Trump staffers’ evidence-less plan to overturn the election, and the bipartisan gun control bill set to pass Congress

Evening Standard

Joe Biden: Supreme Court’s New York gun law change ‘should deeply trouble us all’

The President said the justices’ ruling ‘contradicts both common sense and the constitution’

The Conversation

Red flag laws saved 7,300 Americans from gun deaths in 2020 alone – and could have saved 11,400 more

Lawmakers in Congress are poised to pass the first gun control legislation in three decades. Among the elements in that legislation is support for states to pass what are called “red flag laws.”

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Compromise is difficult to find

The prolonged negotiations among four senators that produced this week’s compromise on a modest gun control bill show how hard it is to reach bipartisan agreement on contentious issues in a time of sharply partisan politics.

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