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More background checks will be required for gun purchases under a changing administrative rule under the Biden administration. The rule aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of guns to be sold every year by unlicensed dealers. Stephanie Feldman, director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, said this rule change will make the U.S. safer.
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A federal appeals court ruled this week that a lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against U.S. gun manufacturers can resume.
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For years, Wyoming has had one of the highest suicide rates and one of the highest gun ownership rates in the United States. But until recently, it was taboo to draw a link between those two things.
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San Antonio has its first guns-for-groceries exchange and finds an enthusiastic response.
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Linda builds a new life in California but news from home keeps chasing her. Members of Pueblos Unidos were detained in Michoacan, carrying an arsenal of weapons from the U.S. Linda’s fate depends on the U.S. asylum system, where Mexicans rarely win cases. She’s safe for now but her future in the U.S. is still unclear — a fate thousands of other asylum seekers share.
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Linda and her family finally arrive in California. Their journey to safety has finally ended, but the one towards a new life has just begun, together with a case for asylum. Everything is new… New tortillas, a new language, new people, new schools.
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When a new vigilante group took over under the promise of protecting Linda and her community, she felt relieved. But things only got worse… before she knew it, almost every household owned a gun, most of which were smuggled from the US. In February 2021, she experienced the kind of paralyzing pain that led her to flee the only home she ever knew.
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Although there are laws on the books preventing certain people from possessing guns, there are few places in the state where the criminal justice system has programs to hand over firearms to law enforcement — leaving survivors at a heightened risk for gun violence.
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Texas passed SB13 and SB19 to protect the oil and gun industries by boycotting lenders with ESG policies. A study shows it's costing Texas hundreds of millions of dollars.