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West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin on Friday said that President Trump can "apply gun sense" should a renewed effort surface towards universal background checks for gun sales.

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Dylann Roof doesn’t want his mental health to influence jurors when they decide next month whether he should receive the death penalty for shooting nine parishioners inside a Charleston church, according to a handwritten motion he filed Friday.

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On the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey signaled he would give his old bipartisan background check bill a fresh look.

The post Toomey to rehash background check bill in new Congress appeared first on Guns.com.

Accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof is competent to stand trial and jury selection will resume in the case on Monday, ruled a federal judge on Friday.

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Chief among the issues on the Senate's Gun Issues Special Committee agenda will be how, and if, lawmakers should close the so-called "Charleston Loophole."

The post South Carolina lawmakers schedule hearings for background check reform appeared first on Guns.com.

The second most popular comment was in response to a follow up article on the mass shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last summer.

The post Most popular NY Times comments touch on on guns, racism appeared first on Guns.com.

Our citizens deserve the right to demonstrate that they have the ability to protect themselves and at least the choice to reveal themselves as hard targets

The post Florida Sheriff: “My support of Open Carry goes even deeper” appeared first on Guns.com.

Actress Amy Schumer and New York Sen. Charles Schumer unveil legislation aimed at a NICS fix, calling on states to submit more mental health records.

The post Schumer and Schumer announce bill to close national background check loophole appeared first on Guns.com.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat co-sponsor of a failed bill to expand background checks to private gun sales, says it’s not going to come back up.

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An opinion piece on a major news outlet's website has Moms Demand Acton founder Shannon Watts using recent shootings to push new gun control measures.

The post Watts blames gun website for Chattanooga shooting appeared first on Guns.com.

The FBI has acknowledged that the Charleston shooter was allowed to buy a handgun due to a failure in the background check system. The response is familiar.

The post If at first you don’t succeed… appeared first on Guns.com.

While gun grabbers blame accessibility of guns for mass shootings, researchers at ASU and Northeastern are pointing the finger at another culprit: the media

The post How the media’s obsession with mass killings is killing us appeared first on Guns.com.