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Espaillat Treads Lightly On IDC – Sen. Adriano Espaillat has a good relationship with Sen. Jeff Klein, who announced with Senate Republicans today a power-sharing agreement in the state Senate. That good relationship was evident in a statement released by...
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Veterans’ Gun Rights Becomes Tough Issue In Defense Bill – Should veterans deemed too mentally incompetent to handle their own financial affairs be prevented from buying a gun? The issue, for a time last week, threatened to become the biggest...
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Coburn, Schumer Lock Horns Over Gun Control – Cooler heads prevailed on the Senate floor Thursday night after Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn initially threatened to stall completion of the annual defense authorization bill amidst a feud with New York...
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Senator Feinstein looking to introduce new assault weapons ban – A few days before Barack Obama’s reelection on Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) began getting ready to introduce legislation to bring back the assault weapons ban that expired in...
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Van Bramer Calls For End To Queensbridge Gun Violence – Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer is taking aim at criminals and gunslingers that use the Queensbridge Housing Project as a shooting range. Van Bramer, who has introduced five new gun control laws for...
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Microstamping Bills are an Economic Disaster in the Waiting – If legislators in New York and Connecticut approve proposed microstamping bills in 2013, it will cost both states hundreds of jobs and the loss of at least two iconic American firearms...