Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who fought for gun violence prevention laws for the past twenty years, is retiring from Congress. In this article, she states that she is encouraged by the recent strength of the gun violence prevention movement. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/07/carolyn-mccarthy-retirement_n_6…
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Columnist Joe Nocera writes that we need a new approach to gun violence–an approach that is data driven and focuses on public health. In this short article, he writes about one gun dealer who is working to make this happen:
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A federal law gives agents with the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, Firearms, and Explosives the power to make sure people convicted of domestic violence or facing restraining orders relinquish their guns. But there are only 14 agents in the entire
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A powerful op-ed by Judge Amy Holmes Henn about a recent domestic violence case where a woman was murdered with a gun: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/11/heartsick_elias-case…
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Last week, Oregon voters delivered an emphatic message to our legislators: Oregonians want to end gun violence! We demand common sense gun laws and we will vote out legislators who refuse to take simple steps to keep guns away from
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