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A panel of legislators in New Mexico shut down a last-minute effort to revive an expanded background check bill Monday.

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Sportsman’s Warehouse forecasts steady gun sales in the future and characterized the uptick in the third quarter as growth rather than a surge driven by the election.

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A Chinese man who was deported in March following a million-dollar crime spree in Chicago might be selling guns on the internet in West Virginia.

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In support of her first run at election to her position, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has received a big donation from an anti-gun billionaire philanthropist.

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Former Oregon House Majority Leader Val Hoyle, who stepped down in the face of a recall election, received a huge influx of funds in her coffers for a run for Secretary of State.

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According to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, Everytown for Gun Safety spent over $750,000 to pass expanded background check laws in the state.

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With local gun shops refusing to process them and county officials refusing to enforce noncompliance, a new law mandating background checks on private sales took effect last weekend.

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A move to recall Democratic House Majority Leader Val Hoyle over issues to include passage of gun control legislation, halted this week as the lawmaker announced she was stepping down.

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Keeping her promise to gun control groups, Gov. Kate Brown (D) signed legislation Monday that makes the state the most recent to adopt expanded background checks to include most private gun sales.

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Oregon is set to become the eighth state that mandates Brady-style background checks on virtually all gun transfers as a bill that passed the state house Monday heads to the ready pen of Gov. Kate Brown.

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With gun control and gun rights groups each stumping for opposite outcomes, a measure to mandate expanding background checks for virtually all firearms transfers in set for its final review by Oregon lawmakers.

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According disclosures for the first quarter of 2015, a pair of gun control groups spent $129,346 lobbying in favor of increased regulation while a pair of gun rights groups spent just $27,071.

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