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Court hears challenge to Washington expanded background check law

by Chris Eger

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit heard arguments Monday over the legality of Washington’s voter-approved background check law for person-to-person gun transfers.

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Pennsylvania Presbyterian Group Calls For Assault Weapon Ban

by Chris Eger

A letter sent to lawmakers by the Pittsburgh Presbytery is urging a ban on some semi-auto rifles and that members of the church "consider destroying their assault weapons.”

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Challenge to Colorado’s 2013 gun laws back to square one

by Chris Eger

A federal appeals court on Tuesday refrained from ruling on the constitutionality of the gun laws themselves, and vacated a lower court's ruling that upheld them.

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Police chief groups repeat call for expanded background checks

by Chris Eger

A coalition of police chief lobby groups meeting in Chicago this week are calling for background checks on all private gun sales.

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Colorado’s strict 2013 gun laws back in federal court

by Chris Eger

A federal appeals court Monday heard oral arguments over laws limiting magazine capacity and expanding background checks to include almost all firearm sales.

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Gun rights lawsuit over Washington background check law dismissed

by Chris Eger

U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin H. Settle on Thursday issued an order to dismiss a suit brought by a number of Second Amendment advocates on the controversial I-594 ballot initiative passed last November.

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Colorado background check, magazine limit repeal snuffed out (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

A Democrat controlled state House committee made short work Monday of successful Senate bills that would have repealed Colorado’s 2013 universal background check law and arbitrary 15 cartridge magazine cap.

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Colorado Senate approves repeal of expanded background check law

by Chris Eger

Lawmakers in the State's Republican-controlled Senate took aim at Colorado's 2013 universal background check law that includes most private gun transfer, voting to repeal it Wednesday.

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Church Diocese calls for gun control steps to combat ‘wholesale murder’

by Chris Eger

A Michigan diocese, following their annual convention, issued a resolution calling for a ban on "military-style" weapons, universal background checks, and other measures to fight gun violence.

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Police organization calls for expanded background checks (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

A national police lobby group, formed to combat gun violence, has declared its support for background checks on private gun sales.

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Data questioned a year after Colorado’s background check law passed (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

"Nothing good came of the passage of the law," contend GOP leaders as a review of a year of background check data prove to be just 7 percent of estimates.

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Washington voters to choose between background check initiatives (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

This November, voters in Washington will have to choose between a pair of opposing initiatives, I-594 and I-591, which propose serious changes to background checks for gun buyers.

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