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A federal jury sentenced Charleston church shooter and white supremacist Dylann Roof to death, less than a month after convicting him of 33 counts including hate crimes.

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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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The defense and prosecution rested their cases Wednesday after testimony from a forensic pathologist revealed that alleged church shooter Dylann Roof shot each of his nine victims at least five times.

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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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Families of those killed in last year’s Charleston church shooting sued the FBI for not preventing the shooter from buying a gun despite a prohibitive record.

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Four Democrats have proposed a measure in the U.S. House to establish a code of conduct for firearms dealers and shame so-called “bad apples.”

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As a first-generation American, I can say without reservation that I support the right to fly the Confederate flag and feel it deserves to be flown.

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A group of 13 Senate Democrats are challenging the nation's licensed gun dealers to stop transferring firearms to those who do not complete a background check

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U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is asking federal authorities to open a full investigation into how a movie theater murderer with a checkered past was able to legally buy his gun.

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The New Black Panther Party and the Ku Klux Klan squared off during protests that elicited occasional scuffles among the crowd of some 2,000 people.

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Gun control organizations are calling on a national sporting goods retailer to change how it conducts firearms sales in cases of NICS background check delays.

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Lawmakers are planning this week to bring back legislation that would make selling guns to a prohibited possessor worth 20 years in federal prison.

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