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Joe Manchin: Trump can ‘make a difference’ on background check expansion

by Chris Eger

West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin on Friday said that President Trump can "apply gun sense" should a renewed effort surface towards universal background checks for gun sales.

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Toomey to rehash background check bill in new Congress

by Chris Eger

On the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey signaled he would give his old bipartisan background check bill a fresh look.

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Gun control advocates endorse GOP’s Toomey and Kirk in Senate races

by Chris Eger

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly this week gave their support to a pair of incumbent Republican Senators up for reelection in November.

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Obama’s gun speech sprinkled with inaccuracies, distortions

by Alan Korwin

A crowd pleaser for the left, and the ignorant; Likely to enrage gun owners. Net real effect on jihadis, spree murder and crime unclear

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Senate showdown on gun control ends in narrow win for Second Amendment

by Chris Eger

Two anti-gun measures, which would have turned the no-fly-list into the no-gun-buy list and expanded background checks to private sales, were defeated Thursday in close votes.

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Manchin says renewed background check bill unlikely

by Chris Eger

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat co-sponsor of a failed bill to expand background checks to private gun sales, says it’s not going to come back up.

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Lawmaker introduces expanded background check legislation to House (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, a Virginia Democrat, debuted a bill to require private gun sellers to verify transfers through an FFL before the sale of a firearm.

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Gun control groups call for national background checks

by Jared Morgan

The brutal mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last week has once again churned up a push for more comprehensive federal gun control.

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Manchin, Toomey could restart background check bill (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

On the heels of a mass shooting last week, Senators Pat Toomey, and Sen. Joe Manchin, ponder if the time might be right to renew old efforts at gun control.

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NRA ad rated one of the ‘biggest Pinocchios of the year’ (VIDEO)

by Daniel Terrill

The NRA is named one of the "biggest Pinocchios of the year" for an ad that "stretches the facts with its images" attacking Sen. Mary Landrieu's stance on gun control.

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With guns a campaign issue, GOP takes last senate seat up for grabs (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

In Louisiana, the NRA-endorsed Republican challenger Bill Cassidy handily defeated incumbent gun control champion U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D), in a runoff race Saturday.

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2014 Election Results: Big wins for GOP, pro-gun candidates; gains for background checks

by Chris Eger

The midterm elections came up in favor of the Republicans with GOP candidates winning a majority in the Senate as well as capturing and maintaining key gubernatorial races while a controversial background check initiative was voted in.

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