The GOP and the NRA want to stop gun violence research. California
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The state maintains a single file that records every legal handgun transfer since 1996 and every rifle and shotgun transfer since 2014. No other state has anything like it.
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Garen Wintemute - Armed With Knowledge - Sactown Magazine
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This Senator Wants to Revive Federal Research on Gun Violence, 22 Years After Congress Banned It – Mother Jones
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How Limits on CDC Studies Shaped the New Federal Gun Law
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A Gap in Gun Violence Injury Prevention Data in the United States - Injury Prevention: Editor's Blog
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EDITORIAL: Succumbing to NRA and gun industry hysteria is killing us - Sentinel Colorado
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NRA convention in Indiana: GOP candidates to attend
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Opinion 6 Bold Ideas for Gun Reform That Could Actually Happen - POLITICO
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Republican 2024 Hopefuls Embrace Gun Politics at N.R.A. Meeting - The New York Times
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Will Californians go after gun manufacturers the way states did with tobacco companies? – Orange County Register