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Tragedies such as the Fort Lauderdale shooting have many concerned citizens wondering what should be done regarding the mentally ill and firearms, but one state already has a system designed to make law enforcement’s job safer when approaching mentally ill subjects.

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Federal data released Thursday shows background checks continued trending upward in August with a 4.6 percent increase from last month.

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New Hampshire is now home to a brand new gun control group, set up with the help of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, in an effort to expand background checks.

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The adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System figures for October 2015 are 1,211,478 checks, the highest on record in the 17-year history of the program.

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The adjusted NICS figures for April 2014 are 1,031,959 checks, the second highest on record in the 17-year history of the program.

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Over 2.3 million background check requests were processed by the FBI’s National Instant Background Checks System in December 2014, a more than 13 percent increase from the previous year.

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As of Nov. 30, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has run more than 200 million background checks for firearm transfers. The exact number was 200,226,838, aka 200 megaguns.

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Police chiefs in Massachusetts may have the right to challenge rifle and shotgun permit applications in court after a compromise gun bill worked out Wednesday.

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After the Massachusetts state senate received a controversial gun control bill from the house with may-issue language for gun owner permits, they passed it by a vote of 28-10, but without the key measure.

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Almost a year after Congress defeated gun control legislation, the 2015 federal budget request from President Obama includes $182 million for new gun control measures.

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15 years of data collected by the FBI's NICS background check system shows over a million applicants out of 183 million checks were denied to buy a firearm.

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