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A greater percentage of homicides were carried out with a gun in 2016 than in any year since the Federal Bureau of Investigation began keeping records, an analysis of new data from the agency shows. The number of…
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As Hurricane Irma bore down on his home state, Ryon Edwards of DeLand, Florida, created a Facebook event page intended to encourage people — or so it seemed, sort of — to fire their guns as an act of…
Gun Rights
One prominent group has issued a 'stand down order,' saying it feared being associated with racist protesters.
