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Republicans will offer an amendment to gun legislation that would allow people with concealed-weapon permits to carry hidden firearms into other states, Senator John Cornyn said.
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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a rebuff to gun-rights advocates including the National Rifle Association, leaving intact New York’s requirement that people wishing to carry a handgun in public show a special need for protection.
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The gun-control debate might be about to enter a new arena.
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The National Rifle Association appears to suffer from pinaciphobia: the fear of lists.
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Gun-control advocates, seeking new laws in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting, are drawing support from an unlikely source: the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 decision backing the right to bear arms.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is raising the stakes in the same-sex marriage debate as it considers taking up the issue for the first time, testing momentum built by advocates through electoral wins in four states this month.
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In the context of affirmative action, some of the nation’s most important and distinguished conservative legal thinkers, including Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, appear to have abandoned their own deepest beliefs about how to interpret the Constitution.
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The suspect in the Colorado shooting bought two pistols, a semiautomatic rifle and a shotgun since May, avoiding federal reporting requirements and taking advantage of the state’s failure to pass significant firearms legislation since the Columbine massacre 13 years ago.
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Alaska Governor Sean Parnell , saying he’s bound by law, won’t apply for federal grants needed to implement President Barack Obama ’s health-care overhaul after a federal judge in Florida ruled it unconstitutional.
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In the days after unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin was shot dead in Florida, Georgia Representative Rashad Taylor raced to undo his state’s version of a self- defense law that may shield Martin’s killer.
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