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• New Zealand announces immediate ban on all assault weapons

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  New Zealand has banned all assault weapons less than a week after the massacre that took 50 lives

• NM governor enacts expanded gun background checks

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  The governor signed a bill expanding mandatory background checks on firearm sales

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  A larger capacity pistol that is still concealable has advantages for today’s threats

• Officials: Boy shot trooper dad with service weapon over video games

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  The boy got the gun from the trooper's locked police vehicle outside their home and shot his father in the buttocks

• Border agents using firearms at a lower rate

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  The decrease comes as fewer people are crossing the border illegally and after the agency overhauled how force should be deployed at the border

• Ohio judge: Teachers don't need police-level gun training

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  The judge ruled that staff who are training to carry concealed weapons on campuses don't need many training hours

• Records: 75 percent of revoked Ill. gun licenses ignored

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  More than 75 percent of people in Illinois who received gun license revocations in 2018 ignored the notices

• Ill. shooting raises questions over gun permit checks

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  The gunman was issued a firearm owners' ID card after a background check failed to show a 1995 aggravated assault conviction

• House Democrats examine ways to reduce gun violence

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  House Democrats said they will push for "sensible" gun safety laws the public is demanding

• Supreme Court returns to gun rights for 1st time in 9 years

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  The U.S. Supreme Court will take up its first guns rights case in nine years

• Wash. bans anyone under 21 from buying rifles

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  Washington joined a handful of other states to ban anyone under 21 from buying semi-automatic rifles

• Chicago gun violence decreases double-digit for a second year

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  Homicides dropped by 15 percent, shootings by 18 percent; that continues a trend from 2016, when violence reached levels not seen since the 1990s

• Ill. city passes gun control legislation in wake of Parkland

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  The village of Deerfield, Illinois recently banned the possession, sale and manufacture of so-called "assault weapons" and large capacity magazines by public ordinance

• Ga. sheriff's concealed-carry sign goes viral

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  The sign in part reads: “Our citizens have concealed weapons. If you kill someone, we might kill you back”

• Fla. police seize first firearms under state’s new gun-control laws

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  Four firearms and 267 rounds of ammunition were ordered removed from a 56-year-old man who experts determined was a potential risk to himself or others

• 49ers team up with LE groups in push for gun legislation, improved police-community relations

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  The parties agreed to sign a pledge to improve community-police relations and advocate for the ban of “bump stocks” and other “common sense” gun legislation

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