State lawmakers are taking very different approaches to public safety following high-profile shootings.
Two states. Two tragedies. Two different approaches to improving public safety.
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Two states. Two tragedies. Two different approaches to improving public safety.
Two states. Two tragedies. Two different approaches to improving public safety.
Legislatures in about 20 states already have passed measures this year to expand gun rights or restrict access to firearms. Dozens more proposals are pending. The divide continues a trend seen last year, when more than half the states enacted firearms legislation, with Democrats generally favoring more limits and Republicans more freedoms for gun owners.
Six months after a deadly mass shooting by an Army reservist, Maine lawmakers this week passed a wide-ranging package of new gun restrictions.Three months after
On Wednesday, legislation sponsored by Republican state Rep. John Black of Marshfield was approved on a 106-49 vote.