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    Sep 5

    The NRA's general election spending typically begins in earnest after Labor Day. Our NRA Campaign Spending Tracker pulls daily FEC reports to show you exactly how much the group is putting behind its favored candidates:

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  2. 6 hours ago

    Shane Colombo, an incoming doctoral student at Northwestern University, was killed in the crossfire of a shootout within hours of moving to Chicago last weekend. More in this week's Canon:

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  3. 7 hours ago

    On day one of Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS confirmation hearing, a grieving Parkland dad offered the district judge his hand, but was rebuffed. Here's his account of that moment, which went viral:

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  4. 8 hours ago

    A Houston gun violence commission cited our stolen guns investigation in calling for a law requiring gun owners to report missing firearms.

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  5. 9 hours ago

    Experts identified obscure laws that could keep militias from patrolling your community.

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  6. 10 hours ago

    Nine educators shared stories about what it’s like to teach in the era of school shootings. Says one: "I would take a bullet for my kids, but I shouldn’t have to."

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  7. Sep 8

    Less than a tenth of one percent of people who lied on their gun background check forms—a federal crime—were prosecuted during the last fiscal year.

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  8. Sep 8

    Nearly three-quarters of Democratic candidates in the midterm elections tout their support for gun reform on their campaign websites.

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  9. Sep 8

    A man armed with a 9mm and 200 rounds of ammo opened fire at a bank in downtown Cincinnati on Thursday, killing three people and wounding two others before he was fatally shot by police. One of the survivors was shot 12 times.

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  10. Sep 8

    One of the final avenues for mass shooting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to reach a mainstream audience has been eliminated.

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  11. Sep 7

    "If the youth across the country can fight to eradicate gun violence, why can't judges, lawmakers, and Donald Trump understand that young people are dying from this senseless gun violence?"

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  12. Sep 7

    At today's SCOTUS confirmation hearing, a 17-year-old Parkland survivor recalled how she hid under a classmate's lifeless body, moving at least one Senator to tears.

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  13. Sep 7

    And even if these new bills are signed into law, that doesn’t mean they will be enacted. As reported last year, new gun regulations in California are often stalled by legal hiccups and court challenges.

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  14. Sep 7

    But there’s no guarantee that every measure passed by California lawmakers this session will become law: While Governor Jerry Brown is a Democrat, he has vetoed several gun safety bills in the past.

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  15. Sep 7

    The California legislature went further than their counterparts in Florida, who only passed three gun safety bills after Parkland.

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  16. Sep 7

    (What didn’t pass: a ban on untraceable, DIY “ghost guns,” and funding for research into violence prevention programs.)

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  17. Sep 7

    Lawmakers in California, which already has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws, passed a raft of Parkland-inspired bills this legislative session. If signed by the governor, they would:

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  18. Sep 7

    A Dallas police officer faces manslaughter charges after fatally shooting a neighbor whose apartment she mistakenly entered, believing it was her own.

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  19. Sep 7

    A security officer at a federal building in Ohio fatally shot his girlfriend's teenage children as they fled a domestic dispute at their home on Wednesday night.

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  20. Sep 7

    Texas officials from both parties are drawing on our reporting to shape proposed gun safety legislation.

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  21. Sep 7

    A gun rampage in Cincinnati; a teen anti-violence activist fatally shot in Chicago; Twitter boots mass shooting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. More in today's Daily Bulletin:

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