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TSA finding more guns in security checks despite warnings to passengers

Most of the more than 1,800 people who were discovered with firearms in airports last year claim the they simply forget they had a gun, but opinions are split on whether or not this is likely.

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States consider gun confiscation to reduce mass shootings, but not everyone is buying it

For some, reducing mass shootings means utilizing laws which would allow firearms to be seized from individuals who are seen as a threat. For others, the mere idea of confiscation – of any kind – is not only a bad idea, but a violation of Constitutional rights.

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Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Blame the people pulling the trigger, not the guns

The “reliance on flawed public opinion surveys, misstatements about the current background check system, and use of emotional, inflammatory rhetoric belie the claim that the case for gun control is supported by ‘evidence-based medicine,’” when, in fact, she claims it does not.

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California man has guns confiscated after wife’s hospital stay; State returns guns, not ammo

After much paperwork, more money and greater hassles, her husband had his firearms returned, but not the estimated $400 to $600 worth of ammunition that was taken as well, ammunition which has become quite difficult to get in some parts of the country.

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TSA Opens Instagram Account to Display ‘Instacool’ Contraband

The Transportation Security Administration has created an Instagram account to display all of the “instacool” items confiscated from airports, including guns, knives, other weapons and fireworks.

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